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District 4 Candidate Debate – Thursday, 9/5 at 7pm

September 5, 2019 9 Comments

The first debate between the two District 4 city council candidates who made it through to the November 5 general election will take place on Thursday, September 5. Shaun Scott and Alex Pedersen will square off in the University Heights Auditorium at 5031 University Way. Doors open at 6:30pm, and the 90 minute debate will begin at 7:00pm.

The format is unique. The debate is being co-hosted by six of the eight candidates who faced off against Pedersen and Scott in the primary election, so expect to see Beth Mountsier, Cathy Tuttle, Emily Myers, Heidi Stuber, Joshua Newman and Sasha Anderson there as well.

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  1. hayduke
    September 5, 2019 at 10:48 am

    “The format is unique. The debate is being co-hosted by six of the eight candidates who faced off against Pedersen and Scott in the primary election, so expect to see Beth Mountsier, Cathy Tuttle, Emily Myers, Heidi Stuber, Joshua Newman and Sasha Anderson there as well.”

    Nah, this format isn’t biased in favor of Shaun Scott at all. Seriously, wtf?

    • DOUG.
      September 5, 2019 at 12:26 pm

      How so?

      • hayduke
        September 5, 2019 at 1:41 pm

        What do you mean, how so? Pedersen is arguably an outlier in a sea of D4 candidates who were all far to his left on virtually every issue. Myers was actually even more to the left of Shaun Scott, and he’s a Socialist. Whether it’s forcing neighbors to put up with squalid homeless camps next to them, shoving bike lanes down the throats of neighborhoods that don’t want them, pushing destructive HALA upzones, installing city sanctioned junkie magnets with heroin injection sites, reviving the head tax fiasco and spending more of our money with no accountability, and on and on, they are all vary degrees of leftist wackadoodles.

        And now they get to ask the questions at tonight’s forum. Ask yourself, if this was SCALE or Speak Out Seattle hosting the debate, would you be fine with that and not complain of bias?

        • DOUG.
          September 5, 2019 at 2:14 pm

          Settle down, Phil. The moderators are Heidi Stuber and Sasha Anderson, not Mao and Fidel.

          • hayduke
            September 5, 2019 at 3:07 pm

            And yet with the possible exception of Stuber on one or two issues, they all support the policies I mentioned. They’re certainly not an unbiased bunch.

        • Bryan Kirschner
          September 5, 2019 at 5:21 pm

          “Pedersen is arguably an outlier in a sea of D4 candidates who were all far to his left on virtually every issue”

          LOL. That’s because he’s an outlier relative to D4 voters, to whom he’s far to our right on virtually every issue.

          • John Volkman
            September 6, 2019 at 12:12 pm

            What, exactly, are you talking about??

  2. John Volkman
    September 6, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    So, did anything of consequence happen at this event?
    How many people attended?

    • Matt
      September 9, 2019 at 9:32 am

      It was more a “get to know the candidates” forum than a debate — questions focused on character more than issues, and there was no opportunity for the candidates to directly engage with one another. Questions came from the primary losers, and it felt like they were tired of rehashing issues. I was sorry that they asked softball questions like “What’s your leadership style?” and “What do you love about Seattle?” while not once mentioning homelessness. Hayduke’s concern about bias proved to be unfounded. If anything, the questioners were too cordial and nonconfrontational.

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