10 questions with candidates for four of the Washington State Supreme Court seats
Five of the nine seats on the WA State Supreme Court are up for election this November, and four have contested primaries. We asked candidates in those races 10 questions to help you vote!
If you know details about the Washington State Supreme Court races, you probably aced your high school civics class. These nonpartisan races are some of the more obscure challenges on your ballot this August, but with a majority of the seats on the nine-person court up for election, it’s actually a crucial time to pay attention.
While there are five seats up for election, one is an uncontested primary, which means both candidates will advance to the November ballot. We asked candidates running for the four contested seats a series of questions to help you decide who to vote for. None of the candidates running for position 7 responded to the questionnaire we sent out or subsequent emails.
You can find answers from the candidates who did answer linked below, and if this isn’t enough to help you make your decision, there’s more to come: we’ll be posting stories on the race, linking to candidate forums and sharing coverage by other outlets that you can use to become the most informed voter in Spokane.
Select a topic to see the question and their answer.
Originally from central WA, Daisy has extensively covered farmworkers and labor rights issues. Before joining RANGE, she worked in the US-Mexico border community of Nogales, AZ. (Ella habla español)
An innovator in the apple orchards separates from her family to return to Mexico. In Congress, a bi-partisan bill to legalize many undocumented workers struggles to gain a hearing.
Una innovadora en los huertos de manzanas se separa de su familia para regresar a México. Un proyecto de ley bipartidista que podría legalizar a muchos trabajadores indocumentados tiene dificultades para conseguir una audiencia en el congreso.
Spokane’s Haitian community is crisis-planning after Supreme Court decision allowed the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status from Haitians, Syrians.
