Posted by news intern Sarah Lloyd.
"Weird, Weird, Weird": Last night, the King County Council failed to fill the spot left vacant by Dow Constantine, who was elected King County Executive last month - the West Seattle Blog was live-blogging the meeting that eventually resulted in a deadlock.
Not Again: [...]
The Seattle P-I’s Chris Grygiel tells it like it is:
How did Dow Constantine beat Susan Hutchison so handily in last month’s King County executive’s race? As a Seattle Times map shows, he won Seattle handily and got more votes in the Eastside suburbs. Constantine’s strong showing in what, until [...]
Good job, voters. You almost had this:
Eli Sanders
Text of Constantine's inauguration speech appears after the jump.
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[...]Dow Constantine is being sworn in as King County Executive about now, leaving a vacancy on the King County Council. Eleven people—including known homosexual and confirmed state senator, Joe McDermott—have thrown their hat into the ring:
Jan Drago—A member of the Seattle City Council who is leaving the Council this [...]
This morning, flanked by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and King County Executive-elect Dow Constantine, Senator Patty Murray announced that Sound Transit will inaugurate service on Airport Link on Saturday, December 19th at 10 AM. 
