Aug 19, 2022
On this Friday show, we presentPart 2 of the Hacks & Wonks 2022 Post-Primary Election Recap whichwas live-streamed on August 9, 2022 with special guests EJ Juárezand Doug Trumm. In Part 2, the panel breaks down primary electionresults for State Legislature seats in the battleground district ofthe 47th LD and in Seattle-area Democrat vs Democrat races in the36th, 37th, and 46th LDs, The historical importance of The Strangerendorsem*nt in the progressive path out of the primary is discussedas well as Doug and EJ’s thoughts on other races in the 42nd LD andfor Secretary of State.
As always, a full texttranscript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com.
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Resources
Hacks & Wonks 2022 PrimaryElection Recap Livestream | August 9th, 2022: https://www.officialhacksandwonks.com/august-2022-postprimary-recap
Transcript
[00:00:00]BryceCannatelli: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I’m Brycefrom the Hacks & Wonks production team. On this show we talk withPolicy Wonks and Political Hacks to gather insight into localpolitics and policy in Washington state through the lens of thosedoing the work, with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what'shappening, why it's happening and what you can do about it.
You’re listening to part 2 of our 2022Post-Primary Election Recap, with special guests EJ Juárez and DougTrumm, that we live-streamed on August 9th, 2022. If you missedpart 1, you can find it as the previous episode of your podcastfeed, or you can find the audio and transcript for the full recapon our website, officialhacksandwonks.com. Thank you forlistening!
[00:00:59]CrystalFincher: Another very interesting district is the47th Legislative District, which is half of Kent, Covington, MapleValley, parts of Auburn - again, a very purple district - one thatsees two open seats - an incumbent remaining in RepresentativeDebra Entenman, but an open Senate seat after Mona Das announcedthat she was leaving and an open House seat after Pat Sullivanretired. And so we had competitive Democratic and Republicanprimaries going on here with open seats, just a lot of questionsabout what is going to happen here in the 47th - very hard topredict. But we saw some really interesting results. Again, this isone of the districts that Republicans said was one of their toptargets - definitely in the top two or three targets that they feltwere there for pickups and turning these seats that were held byRepublican [Democratic] incumbents and two of them now open seatsinto Republican pickups.
And what we saw was in the one seat with DebraEntenman, she finished comfortably with 55% against a Republicancandidate, Kyle Lyebyedyev. There was another Republican contestingin the race, but Debra made it through fairly comfortably. We had aSenate race with Satwinder Kaur and Claudia Kauffman as Democratsagainst Bill Boyce, the Republican. Bill Boyce, who is a CityCouncilmember in the City of Kent, a Republican, also a BlackRepublican that's running here is - has 45.58%. And then a very,very, very close race between Claudia Kauffman and Satwinder Kaur.Currently, Claudia Kauffman is leading with 27.23% over Satwinderwith 27.02%. This is a race that is under a hundred votesseparating the two and it looks like Claudia Kauffman is going tosqueeze and squeak through here. This is a really interesting race.And again, you look at the combined percentage of the Democraticvote - they're above, they're like 54% there. That's a great resultthat we see on the Democratic side, but wow, what a really closelycontested race.
And then in the other seat, we saw two Democrats- Chris Stearns with 33.4% against Shukri Olow, another Democrat,who is making it through - both Democrats making it through theprimary - Shukri with 19.6% against three Republicans. One of -again, a party pick for the Republicans - Carmen Goers raised$200,000 in the primary, spent the bulk of it. She actuallyfinished in last place. This was another Black Republican here withtwo other Republican white male opponents who finished with 15.1%and 17.4%, respectively, with Ted Cooke and Barry Knowles. Veryinteresting result. I don't know that many people - I certainly didnot call that there was gonna be a Democratic shutout in one ofthese seats in this purple district, or that the other resultslooked so strong in favor of the other ones. What do you see whenyou see this 47th Legislative District race, Doug?
[00:04:37]Doug Trumm:Yeah. You can't get any bigger with them not even making it to theprimary. So having two Democrats in that Position 2 seat - that isgoing to be an exciting race, but not for the Republicans. Butwe'll circle back to that, 'cause I do want to talk about that racemore, but I suppose we should talk about the other races more alittle bit too. Mona Das retiring - I think that certainly led tosome nervousness that we're not gonna have the incumbent advantageand that didn't seem to be an issue with the result. And it doeslook like it'll be Claudia Kauffman, so again - an established name- but someone I think who seemed to do a good job, so someone I'mactually glad to see coming back. I'm not always thrilled when youget people who keep going back for many decades, but I think thatone is an exception.
But yeah, and going back to the 30th as well - onthe Democratic side, I guess over all those years of not havingthat many Black - and apologies for my cat making all that noise -not having that many Black candidates, I guess assumption was theywould do worse than the white candidates that people were puttingforward, or just maybe wasn't even a thought. But it's pretty clearthat those Black candidates are doing just as good as any of thewhite candidates, if not better, because we see these results inthe 30th and in the 47th and all across really the metro area wherewe're seeing voters really resonating with these folks. Ifanything, it appears to be an asset. And yeah, it just clearly is adistrict that is slipping away from Republicans and they don't seemto be doing very much to fix that. And as you mentioned, CarmenGoers finishing fifth when she had the support of the party at, Ithink, all levels. And then additionally, she had The Seattle Timesendorsem*nt, which didn't appear to be worth the paper it waswritten on - which I don't know if that's true of every race, butin the 47th that's a really embarrassing finish for the SeattleTimes. And as EJ alluded to - a Viking funeral for $200,000 worthof cash - that's gotta be one of the only times that's happened inWashington history - that a candidate has raised $200,000 in aprimary and then finished fifth, at least at the state legislatorlevel.
[00:07:14]CrystalFincher: Yeah, absolutely. What did you see here,EJ?
[00:07:19]EJ Juárez: Isaw - I think one of the most exciting things for me is that thisactually might be the first time where we have two Native peoplerepresenting the same district in the House in Washington State.And I think that is incredible - the opportunity and the historymaking moment of those candidates' ascension if they are thevictors in November. I really think that is the underreportedtakeaway of this cycle in that these are two candidates, althoughone has - both of them are previously elected in other offices -that's a big deal, right?
On the other end of that spectrum, it is wildlyconfusing to me the uneven field game that has occurred in the47th. We have some candidates who were deeply knocking on doorsevery weekend, huge volunteer turnout. And then we have somecandidates who really focused on media and focused on reallytraditional electronic - I don't even know if that's the way to putit, "traditional electronic" - they weren't at the doors, theyweren't making a ton of phone calls, and they were pretty openabout it. So I think there's a lot of questions to be answered interms of how people got through and the vote share. So when you'relooking at Rep Position 2 with Shukri and Chris, Shukri outraisedChris and really produced not very many votes for that. And whenyou look at the per dollar spend on per vote, it doesn't really -the math doesn't quite work out the way you would expect. Now, aD-on-D race in that is going to be pretty - there will befireworks, right? Because you have to make up a considerable amountof points and the clock is reset for both of those candidates. SoI'm watching them really closely. I'm excited. I think they're bothgreat candidates. I think they're both folks who, as they movetowards the general, are going to start to distinguish themselvesto voters.
I think when you look at that Senate race, Icannot help but think if I was a Republican strategist andfundraiser, I would've wanted to pour a lot more money into thatrace supporting a Black Republican versus some of the whiteRepublicans, which received much higher proportions of spend fromcaucus accounts and from PACs associated with Republicans. There'sprobably some obvious reasons for that on that side that don't needto go too much into depth on, but it is shocking that in athree-way race, the Republican still only musters 45%.
[00:10:06]CrystalFincher: Yeah, I think that's all valid. And I eventhink - actually in this district in the 47th, it has been aninteresting one. This is actually - I live near the border of the47th - the 47th and the 33rd District border. And in the 47th,actually, we've traditionally seen Black candidates, visiblynon-Christian candidates - whether it's someone with a hijab or aturban - underperform compared to spend a number of times here. Andso it's interesting to see these results come through. I don't knowwhat role that played on the Republican side also, but that's justanother dynamic in this race that has been interesting. I do thinkthat this sets up - just for the candidates that are there, thatare gonna be in the general - really interesting matchups andcomparisons. And I do think that Democrats - all of the Democratsin these races - do need to be out on the doors, do need to workthrough the general. Certainly a favorable result in the primary,but another one where they can't rest at all and need to continueto push forward.
But one where I think - this was an area wherepeople were wondering - Hey, where's the public safety conversationgonna be? And are Republicans gonna be able to land some hits hereand are people hyper-worried about inflation? I think, yet again inthis district, I think people saw that the conversation on publicsafety on the ground is a lot more nuanced than it is in the media- I think is safe to say. So many times we hear the conversationbetween more cops and "Back the Blue" and - hey, we're - nocandidates are actually running on this, FYI - but like "DefundEverything." There's not actually a candidate saying that rightnow, but the perception is out there - that that has been there.And people aren't there - even people who favor more police, whoare not bothered by more police - are saying - but what we reallyneed are behavioral health services, are substance use disorder,addiction treatment services, are housing for people. We have toaddress these root causes. If there's an issue with someone who isgoing through a crisis, police just don't have the tools to solvethat. I think that's pretty universally acknowledged and not acontroversial statement. And when polling goes beyond just somevery basic questions and probes into those, we repeatedly see thepublic saying - yeah, of course we need those things. And so it wasvery interesting to see some of these attacks - whether it's in the30th, or throughout the state, in the 47th - on those issues andthey just fell flat. And even on the inflation issue, people areworried and people are absolutely squeezed, but looking at - okay,so what are you gonna do about it? And I think Democrats told abetter story about - okay, here's the plan. This is what we plan toinvest in and this is how we plan to help. I think working peoplefelt that Democrats had a plan that was more tailored to theirneeds from Democrats. So just an interesting result that we sawthere.
We will pivot a bit to the Seattle races, whichare different than all of these battleground races that we've beentalking about. And these are in the City of Seattle - Democratversus Democrat races. We saw a number of open seat races that havehappened here. And so we can start with the 36th District, whichhad a pretty stark and conclusive result, I think, in the open seatrace that was there, where there was a contested primary that hadfive Democratic candidates there - different shades of there, frommore progressive to probably on the most moderate end with WaylanRobert. But we saw Julia Reed, who received The Seattle Times andThe Stranger endorsem*nt take 55% of the vote, followed by JeffManson who is making it through the primary with 13.5% of the vote.And then followed by Nicole Gomez, Waylon Robert, and ElizabethTyler Crone. Looks like that is a race that is Julia's for thetaking, I think realistically, just looking there. And certainlybenefited from both The Times and The Stranger endorsem*nt.
There's another race in the 37th in South Seattlewhere Chipalo Street got both The Stranger and The Timesendorsem*nt, but that was a much closer race where we saw Chipalowith 41% of the vote - 41.53% - and Emijah Smith making it throughthe primary with 35.37% of the vote - a much closer race. We saw inthe 46th Legislative District - Darya Farivar make it through infirst place, the progressive candidate in the race - she currentlyhas 31.61% of the vote and Lelach Rave finishing in second, makingit through the primary at 28.06% of the vote. And then we saw inthe 34th Legislative District, in that open seat there, EmilyAlvarado with 54% of the vote to Leah Griffin's 31.2%.
I'll kick this off, as we discuss these Seattleraces at-large. It's been talked about so many times before - howin Seattle, how consequential the Seattle Times and The Strangerendorsem*nts are. On a previous post-primary recap, Michael Charlesput it very succinctly - saying there are two political parties inSeattle - The Seattle Times and The Seattle Stranger. And actuallywent back and looked at the numbers - and for races in the City ofSeattle, for legislative districts in Seattle, for candidates onthe ballot, for the past decade - candidates endorsed by TheStranger have made it through to the primary a 100% of the time. Itactually seems like, particularly for progressive candidates, thepath requires going through The Stranger - requires thatendorsem*nt to make it on to the general. How consequential isthat, and what do you think we saw overall in general in theseraces, Doug?
[00:16:50]Doug Trumm:Yeah, I think that Stranger endorsem*nt - it's really huge,particularly in a primary in Seattle - I think the 46th is where wereally saw the test of that. In Seattle the Urbanist ElectionsCommittee, which I'm a member of, is lucky enough to talk to mostof the candidates. And when people skip - usually it's a sign thatthey're either running in that centrist lane, or they just got therace together so late that they didn't really have time or put ittogether enough to respond. But we agreed with The Stranger and TheSeattle Times with Julia Reed - I think there's a unique case wherethere's just a candidate that was so - just polished - and anyother candidates had some promise, but there just weren't reallycompelling case to say - but why not, Julia Reed. And I thinkthat's a testament to running a really good race and being a goodcandidate. And hopefully everyone's right about that, 'cause Idon't think you see all three of us agree very often.
In the 46th, on the other hand, we did end upendorsing Melissa Taylor and really liked what she brought to thetable in housing. But we were also - really thought that DaryaFarivar was a fantastic candidate as well. And particularly aroundthe issues of transportation - being Policy Director at DisabilityRights Washington, which is a great partner of us and a greatleader on all these climate and climate justice issues at the statelevel and the local level. So we were happy with both candidatesand great to see Darya go through and being several points ahead ofLelach where - we didn't get a chance to talk to her. And I thinkshe's more in the Sara Nelson lane of the party who endorsed her,if you will. How that race shakes out will have, I think, prettybig bearing on just what is possible on some issues like housing,where it seems like someone like Rave is staking out a verymoderate position there and not really being upfront about - Hey,we need to do something about exclusionary zoning, we need to makeour zoning more inclusive and be able to fit more people into partsof the city - where Northeast Seattle is so wealthy, so muchopportunity, so many good schools and good parks and everything,and it's a part of the city that's pulled up the drawbridge alittle bit. Maybe she will change her tune on that position alittle bit, but I think - although Darya didn't talk about housinga lot, she's someone who on the questionnaire was pretty clear -she's on that same page around ending exclusionary zoning andpromoting missing middle. It's an issue that we track reallyclosely - polling shows that Washington voters are increasinglyfocused on that. And I think it's because people are smart and youget that the whole world's experiencing inflation - you can'treally blame one party for that. You maybe can blame Putin for thata little bit, but no one can control Putin. But what are you gonnado to help people control their costs? And one - the hugest thingis housing. It's just - it's a massive cost in our region. And ifyou don't have a solution that both gets at promoting affordablehousing through investment and also dealing with our zoning andpolicies that just make it really restrictive to create morehousing, you're not really tackling that problem. And I think forsome voters that's really starting to hit home, which could give acandidate like Darya the edge. And I will let EJ break down some ofthe other races, as I've gone on long enough. But it definitely wasa reassuring result in that sense.
[00:20:45]EJ Juárez:Yeah, so I - one, I appreciate being on a show with Doug becauseDoug is so smart about so many things. And as he is talking, I'mwriting down things - oh, I need to look into some of that. For me,back to the question around endorsem*nts and the power of TheStranger. I think Michael Charles was absolutely right around thetwo-party system now. I also feel like it is incrediblydisingenuous for anybody who works in politics to be surprised ifthe candidate who gets The Stranger endorsem*nt gets through. Ithink it shows a lack of context around just how much that means topeople, both as a key part of many people's own political maturitywithin the city, right? The Stranger serves as this thing thatpeople learn about Seattle from, learn how Seattle operates - anddiscounting the weight of that endorsem*nt is done at one's ownperil.
I think how we get, how we've gotten to thisplace - and many of these endorsem*nts and many of the races bearthis out - is that there are a couple of things at play. Mediaconsolidation has removed many of the other endorsing organizationsthat had typically seen - excuse me, typically been seen asnonpartisan, right? We no longer have The Seattle PI, we no longerhave many of the regional or neighborhood papers that were alsodoing this for many years. The lanes of engagement have alsochanged for people who are coming into elected office. The salariesthat we pay people to do public service no longer match the cost ofliving in many of our cities. So therefore, you are narrowing thefield more and more and more as this goes. I think the tworemaining factors that I think of when you think about just thepower of these - of The Times and The Stranger's endorsem*nts - arethe policy hegemony, right? The lane in which we talk aboutpolicies is so locked in and narrow in the full spectrum ofpossibility. So the process of differentiating - if we're lookingat the 36th - 7 candidates, is it 2, 4, or 6 candidates who haveminor policy differences and may only sell that difference withenthusiasm or gusto differently, but are 99% aligned - is more andmore difficult for voters to actually judge on policy versusperformance.
And I think that gets to the last piece here of -the opposition that is understood in Seattle politics has becomemore and more clear around - there is the folks that are trying todo good and the folks that are trying to do bad. And the folks thatare trying to do bad - when I started working in politics here,that was - you could name 50 different organizations, 50 differentpeople off the top of your head. And now it feels like everycampaign has really locked in on - the bad guys are Amazon, the badguys are the tech bros, the bad guys are X, Y, and Z, but it'sreally focused on small pockets of opposition. And for manyreasons, some of those groups earn that label - I will say that -but in many ways it limits the amount of discourse that happens.And I'm going on a little bit long, but I think it can't beoverstated that many of these factors inform how we got to a placewhere two newspapers informed so much of our political success inthe City.
[00:24:25]CrystalFincher: Yeah - to your point - the reason whyHacks & Wonks exists is because of the frustration with how narrowand shallow some of those conversations can be, with so muchconsolidation and with the thinning of just the amount of peoplecovering these races, the amount of visibility that races andpolicy have, the lack of accountability that we see with so many ofour leaders - not just federally, but in the City of Seattle -we're still wondering what happened to texts that disappeared at areally pivotal time in the City. So it is challenging to workthrough that and deal with that. And I just think that this is atime where I hope lots of community organizations lean in andengage and try to connect their own memberships, their own spheresof influence to the process. One thing that I found really excitingabout these results that I haven't really seen talked about was -there's a lot of public polling available, but the primary is aspectacular, actual public poll. And when we talk about inclusivezoning and making progress on affordable housing, the vast majorityof voters in every single district - from the 46th to the 37th -voted in favor of the candidates who said we're taking on exclusivezoning, we're going to make it more inclusive, we're going to votefor that missing middle housing bill, and that spoke strongly infavor of it. That they voted overwhelmingly for candidates whotalked about strengthening the social safety net, who talked aboutaddressing behavioral health services, substance use disorderservices, supportive housing and wraparound services - and not justfocusing on the - well, we just need to lock people up and do whatwe've been doing that has landed us here today. They're reallytalking about addressing a lot of these root causes and takingsubstantive - not incremental, but pretty dynamic - change in manyof these areas. And voters were right there, so I think that thatwas encouraging to see. And I would just wonder and hope that we'regoing to see that reflected and responded to throughout the generalelection.
Full disclosure - I worked for Melissa Taylor,I've paid close attention to the 46th and a number of these races -and am excited to see a strong progressive get through in that race- and Darya Farivar, especially with a lot of the work that she'sdone in disability justice, which is critical. And so it's justgonna be really interesting to see as these general election racesgo by, and I think the 37th Legislative District looks like a verycompetitive race that could go either way right now, that it'sgonna be really interesting to hear in these opportunities whereit's not quite a Democrat versus Republican conversation that doesget flattened a lot, but hopefully we can get into some of themeatiness of issues. There's a lot of policy space in theDemocratic arena, in the progressive arena to really talk through -what are your plans for fixing the issues that are challengingpeople? How do you plan to make people's lives easier and simplerand what are you going to stand up for? Where are your red lines?What are you gonna lead on? Are really interesting and excitingthings to see, that I see there.
So I think that the entire media ecosystem fromThe Urbanist playing a crucial role, the South Seattle Emerald,Real Change - just a lot of community media. Communityorganizations have a lot of power just because there just aren'tmany people covering or talking about this - and this is anopportunity for them to talk about what's important to them, theirmembers, people they serve, their community. And we need it nowmore than ever - as we finish thinking about these Seattle racesand just other races across the state, is there anything that youthink is flying under the radar that's notable or things that wehaven't discussed tonight that you feel we should be payingattention to? And I will start with Doug.
[00:29:05]Doug Trumm:Oh, so many things - I think, just to add another thought about theSeattle races is - again, I think what was another case withChipalo Street, where we endorsed him as well and I think that'sanother race where Seattle Times and Stranger - we agreed. And Ithink that may have partially been just an advantage of him havinghis game plan set when he announced and it seemed like Emijah Smithwas a little bit more still trying to catch up - announcing alittle bit later, I think. And we didn't get a chance to talk toher, so that was part of our decision - she didn't return aquestionnaire. But he was someone who was really good at talkingabout housing. So again, I think that fits the theme and EmilyAlvarado doing better than Leah Griffin, who we endorsed - but welike both candidates, we were very clear that you have two greatoptions there - again, someone with housing chops was doing alittle better. I don't know - I might be stretching this theme alittle bit much, but it definitely seems like credibility on thatissue is a huge asset. And that should be good news. Unfortunatelywe're gonna have people like Gerry Pollet getting re-elected, butthey might look at this and go - maybe I've been doing this alittle bit wrong if I really want to continue gettingre-elected.
But I guess one race we didn't talk a lot about -but we shouldn't shy away from the bad news, which is the 42nd didnot go well for Democrats. You had hope of a Senate pickup thereand it's still not completely impossible, but Sharon Shewmake, whois an incumbent House representative, getting 47% in that district- that's not a great result against two Republicans. And one of 'emdid have kind of that name ID - Simon Sefzik, or however you saythat - so that might have helped him, but does look like he'll bethe one through. So she'll continue to face that in the primary.And then we have actually - two of those seats are Democratic held,so the people lower on the ticket did a little bit better. Butthese could be the two seats we lose, but I do think we make thatup maybe in LD10 where Greg Gilday, the Republican incumbent, isn'tdoing well at all - is down like four points. And also in the 26th,as we've talked about a little bit, with having Adison Richardspotentially being a pickup there - it might end up coming out inthe wash.
But I don't know what's going on in the 42nd - Ithought that district was drifting a little bit blue, but - and theredistricting is really odd because it's such a huge district - allthe changes happened within the sort of Bellingham scope. And Iguess they must have just carved out a little bit of Bellinghamthat was keeping that district where Shewmake was winning. And it'salso - I guess, maybe Shewmake wasn't as strong of a candidate asmaybe some of - her seatmate Alicia Rule doing a point and changebetter. I don't know if that's just the money in that race or what,or if it really should have been flip-flopped who tried to grabthat Senate seat, but it might have been for naught if thatdistrict is just now a +3 or something Republican - you really haveto run a really good race maybe to win that. And with Republicanspouring money in there, it's not as favorable terrain - which kindof brings us back to redistricting - it's a weirdly drawn districtand I guess we left it that way, but why? Maybe I'll leave it atthat for now and let others jump in.
[00:32:44]CrystalFincher: Go ahead, EJ.
[00:32:45]EJ Juárez: Ithink I'll start with the 42nd. I think this is a district that isan opportunity for Democrats to begin with, right? If it were notfor the death of conspiracy theorist, COVID-denying Doug Ericksen,who loved to work for dictators - I think we wouldn't even be inthis situation. Any Democrat who is putting up numbers right now -it was an uphill battle - and I think that the points are validaround just how hard that was going to be for just about anybody,given the challenges of where the lines are gonna be and all thesethings.
I think in terms of other stuff that is top ofmind for me is the real tragedy of Julie Anderson's run forSecretary of State - incredible underperformance, not even carryingher own county of Pierce County, running as an independent againstthe incumbent Steve Hobbs - is something that I can't, I keepcoming back to where I'm like - all right, that does not make sensein my head yet. Given everybody's enthusiasm of keeping Steve Hobbsas far away as possible from actually legislating - that part does.But the lack of challenge to his ascension into the Secretary ofState's office seems a bit odd. It is almost certain that theDemocrat will hold that seat for the first time in 60 years, and Ithink that is something that is to celebrate. I think that is agood thing for Washington, even as oddly as we have arrived at thatfact. Some of the other quick things on my list is - as long asyou're asking for that grab bag - I'll go back to the complete lackof strategy on the Republican side, in terms of how they areplanning on taking and building a majority in this state. Still topof mind for me - it is the bright, shiny object of - are they goingto produce a strategy at any point in the next decade? I don'tknow.
And then lastly, where Democrats have madelong-term investments, they are starting to yield the results andthe rewards of that - whether that's Federal Way, whether that's inthe 26th out in Gig Harbor - Democrats are getting those rewardsfor decisions and investments that they made 8-10 years ago. Andthe multiple cycle layering of those massive multimillion dollarinvestments in voter turnout, in improving the data on who lives inthose areas, and making the case to those voters is making theirjob easier. And when you look at places that have not enjoyed thatinvestment that are continually looked at as opportunities andpickups, especially when you're looking at the kind of"demographics as destiny" argument that gets made, we don't seeperennial investments in places where there are large populationsof color that are ascendant to majorities. We haven't seen themulti-layered approach in Yakima. We haven't seen thatmulti-layered approach in the Tri-Cities. And frankly, the resultsshow - Democrats are not moving forward in many of those primariesand the lack of investment from the party shows. But where theyhave done it, it has been an incredible reward for them.
[00:36:03]CrystalFincher: Completely agree. And with that, thisrecap comes to a close. I want to thank our panelists - EJ Juárez,Doug Trumm - for their insight and making this an engaging andinformative event. To those watching online, thanks so much fortuning in and for sending in questions. If you missed any of thediscussion tonight, you can catch up on the Hacks & Wonks Facebookpage or Twitter, where we're @HacksWonks. Special thanks toessential members of the Hacks & Wonks team and coordinators forthis evening, Shannon Cheng and Bryce Cannatelli. If you missedvoting in the primary, you still have time to make your voice heardin the general elections coming up on November 8th. If you need toregister to vote, update your registration, or find information,you can go to MyVote.wa.gov. And as a reminder, even if you've beenpreviously incarcerated, your right to vote is restored and you canre-register to vote immediately upon your release, even if you arestill under community supervision - so that's new this year. Youcan vote if you are not currently incarcerated - you just need tore-register at MyVote.wa.gov. Be sure to tune into Hacks & Wonks onyour favorite podcast app for our midweek interviews and our Fridayweek in review shows or at officialhacksandwonks.com. I've beenyour host, Crystal Fincher - see you next time.
[00:37:27]BryceCannatelli: Thank you for listening to part 2 ofour Hacks & Wonks 2022 Post-Primary Election Recap. If you missedpart 1, you can find both parts of the livestream in our podcastfeed or you can find the video and text transcript for the fullrecap on our website at officialhacksandwonks.com.
Thank you for tuning in - talk to you nexttime.
