Washington’s primary elections are Tuesday, and while Spokane’s City Council races aren’t yet attracting the kind of big money they did in 2023, hundreds of thousands of dollars are already pouring in.

It’s an opportunity for the council’s thin conservative majority to gain the seats needed to have some power in city government, or for the liberal majority to oust one of their loudest critics – and for donors both big and small to attempt to sway the outcome.

While there are three Spokane City Council seats up for election this year, one in each district, only one appears on primary ballots.

This means more cash to spend in that race and a greater need to spend it. State law limits donations from a single source to $1,200 per candidate per election; primary and general elections count a

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