Thursday night marked the unofficial kickoff to Seattle’s general election campaign season. For the first time since the August primary, candidates for King County Executive, Seattle Mayor, Seattle City Attorney, and citywide Council positions 8 and 9 were all under the same roof, answering the same questions, seated side by side. And if your kink is candidates having the ability to make bold claims with zero followups, two-minute answers to 20-year problems, and Rachael Savage trolling North Seattle libs with her praise for Trump, only to get booed as a fascist (I mean, if it quacks like a duck), then the Haller Lake Community Club had a candidate forum for you!

The room was a crush of bodies and heat, a democracy sauna where civic virtue mingled with sweat. The audience skewed very Nort

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