Just the Eight of Us

That dialing noise you hear is Mayor Nickels phoning it in.

With filing week in the books, Nickels now has seven opponents in September's primary, none of whom will challenge him in any way.

Among the candidates are Omari Tahir-Garrett, who hit then Mayor Schell in the head with a megaphone in 2001, and Richard Lee who is investigating the death of Kurt Cobain. Both ran for mayor four years
ago; neither did very well.

Nickels' cakewalk to term number two is nothing new. Since 1969
Seattle has had four mayors. Only one, Paul Schell, was voted out of
office , and of the other three, only one was named Charlie.

Here in Seattle, we seem to like our mayors, even if they really don't do anything spectacular.

The mayoral election will go on anyway, with the primary set for September 20.