The filing deadline to run for elected positions came and went on Friday and the races are now set in the 45th and 48th districts that represent Kirkland in Olympia.
All but one incumbent representative will be seeking re-election and only one incumbent is running unopposed, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission.
State Rep. Roger Goodman, D-Kirkland, flirted with running for the 1st Congressional District seat towards the end of 2011 but dropped his bid in April. Goodman has decided to seek re-election for the 45th District Pos. 1. Goodman, who has already raised more than $13,000, according to the PDC, is running for his fourth term in Olympia.
Goodman will be challenged by two Eastside residents. The first is Republican Joel Hussey of Redmond. Hussey touts himself as a businessman and has worked in the aviation sector during his 20-year career. His company Tailwind Capital manages and markets aircraft for airlines around the world. Hussey’s campaign has raised close to $18,000, according to the PDC.
Goodman will also be challenged by a fellow Kirkland resident and Democrat, Jacob Bond. Bond is a political newcomer, who served in Iraq with the United States Marine Corps. He is currently pursuing a business degree from Bellevue College, according to his website. Bond has raised nearly $3,000, according to the PDC.
All three candidates will face each other in a top-two primary in August.
Pos. 2 from the 45th District will see Union Hill resident and Republican Jim Thatcher challenge Democrat incumbent and Kirkland resident Larry Springer. Thatcher is a principal program manager at Microsoft. He announced his bid on May 16 and does not have a website yet.
Springer, who served as Kirkland mayor while on the city council, is seeking his third term in Olympia. He has raised more than $86,000, according to the PDC.
In the 48th District, incumbent Democrat Rep. Ross Hunter, who has served five terms in the legislature, will be challenged by Bellevue resident Bill Hirt for Pos. 1. The PDC has no record of any fund raising for Hirt but Hunter has raised nearly $30,000.
Pos. 2, which is currently held by retiring Democrat Rep. Deb Eddy, will be contested by Democrat Kirkland resident Cyrus Habib and Redmond City Councilman Hank Myers, a Republican.
Habib, who is blind, works in the Bellevue law office of Perkins Coie and volunteers as a trustee of the Bellevue College Foundation, a Human Services Commissioner for the City of Bellevue and with Bellevue Rotary and the Overlake Hospital Foundation.
Myers is a small business owner currently serving his second term on the council and has served appointments on three Metro Transit citizen sounding boards, where he examined Eastside transit service and served as a board spokesperson to the King County Council for each.
Habib has raised more than $107,000 for the race so far. The PDC has no fund-raising documents available for Myers.
Republican and Kirkland resident Bill Finkbeiner will run against incumbent Lt. Governor Brad Owen. Finkbeiner served as a representative and state senator for 14 years from the 45th District and grew up in Kirkland. According to the PDC, Finkbeiner has raised more than $94,000.
Owen has been the state’s Lt. Governor since 1996 and has raised more than $109,000, according to the PDC.
Two other Eastside residents will run for Lt. Governor. Rep. Glenn Anderson, a Republican from Issaquah, has served in the legislature since 2000 and raised more than $700 for the Lt. Governor’s race, while Bellevue resident and Party of Commons member Clifford Greene has not raised any money thus far.
