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Have for many many years. The facebook group "Peter Steinbreuck for the love of Seattle, RUN FOR MAYOR!" is growing far too slowly. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=45584800097 Why do want him to be my Mayor? I think he can win and I think he would do a great job. He is not some newby to government, he is tested and is a known quantity who did push against the strictures created by Nichols. I taped his committee meetings for years and actually watched him do his job for many years. I didn't spend my weekends watching because it was in your face drama, but the drama of attempts to resist the games of the developers and to hold back the barrage unleashed by Nichols and to include people was pretty riveting. To see his face sometimes when someone from the Master Builders would testify was priceless. But he finally just got worn down, and Council has rolled over and is playing pretty dead now in comparison. I think we could get him elected. And I think he would focus on better and more democratic processes. That's what we need to get out from under this yoke of patronage and secrecy fomented by the Mayor, and end the screwed up power relationship between the executive and the council that we have now.

by ktkeller on Mon Mar 02, 2009 at 09:21:22 PM PST

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Among likely primary-election voters, in a four-way race between Nickels, former city attorney Mark Sidran, and city council member Nick Licata, Steinbrueck comes in second to Nickels with 15.8 percent of the vote to Nickels's 17.3 percent. I don't have the margin of error on those numbers, but I'm guessing those percentages are statistically equivalent.

But it's in a two-way matchup that things get interesting. (A two-way matchup, by the way, is the most likely scenario at this point--no viable candidates to Nickels have come forward so far, Sidran has said he isn't running, and Licata claims he's going to seek reelection.) In that scenario, Steinbrueck wallops Nickels 46.6 percent to 24.1 percent, with 29.4 percent undecided. Among likely primary voters 55 and up (the sub-group that's most likely to vote in an off-year primary election like this year's), Steinbrueck gets an outright majority of 53.2 percent to Nickels's 22.4 percent, with 24.4 percent undecided.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/03/03/steinbrueck_vs_nickels

by ktkeller on Tue Mar 03, 2009 at 10:39:03 AM PST

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on Facebook. On the group Peter Steinbrueck, for the love of Seattle, RUN FOR MAYOR! And on his home page.

by ktkeller on Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 04:58:04 PM PST

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