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Update 2: Romanita Hairston is the only candidate still in the running without answers to the questionnaire.  Not sure if she is the one who made the request for an extension but a spot-check seems to indicate she is the only one without answers.

I want to open with news from the 43rd Dems - the so-called PAC, Moms for Seattle sent out a mailer that shows a playground with a tent erected on it.  Except the graffiti and the tent have been photoshopped in.

This is the face of the six-year old child,  Stephen Romero, who was killed yesterday at the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.  A summer festival and that's where he loses his life? NO gun is worth any child's life. From Shannon Watts, head of Moms Demand , via Twitter: Stephen Romero wasn’t in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was in the right place in a nation with the wrong gun laws.   Act in his honor and the others killed and injured in the #gilroyshooting . We have the power to fix this.  Use your voices and votes. Text ACT to 644-33.

Important story in today's Seattle Times , ‘Basically I’m their teacher’: Washington has big plans for its 25,500 school paraeducators

It came to my attention that there was a recent article in The Stranger about linking the candidacies of both Zachary DeWolf and current CM Kshama Sawant who are both running for City Council in a flyer. The flyer comes from the "People for Seattle" PAC .  It's a group that has no Facebook page, no Twitter handle and no way to contact them.  What they do have is a website that wants your name and your money. Here's what caught my eye in the article:

I'm interested to know what readers think about Mayor Durkan's promised veto of a bill that the City  Council passed to keep the soda tax money for supplying healthy food to low-income households.

Free fun for kids tomorrow , Saturday, July 27th, from noon to six pm at Seattle Center -  Seafair FanFest.  This precedes the Torchlight parade.