Campaign Fizz: Does Mallahan believe that he can? And: the net assets of this district 2 dwarfs of the entire city council in the shadows

1.Joe Mallahan, a candidate for mayor from 2009, who narrowly defeated the incumbent Greg Nickels in primary school and lost against Mike McGinn, has heard local political insiders about the challenge of the mayor Bruce Harrell. Mallahan's victory in the area code in August 2009 was widely regarded as a defeat against Nickel as a victory for Mallahan's poorly defined agenda. As Josh found in his interview with Mallahan for Publicola this year, Mallahan “seemed to agree with the Nickel issue of Nickels” and did not present a strong case against the mayor.

Mallahan, who spent $ 230,000 for his 2009 campaign, did not answer a comment on a request. In the 15 years since his defeat, Mallahan consistently voted and donated sporadically local candidates, including the current executive candidate of King County, Claudia Balducci (2025); Judge of the Seattle Municipal Court Pooja Vaddadi (2023); And the then Council member Tim Burgess (2011)

For those who were not there at the time, this was a real Pro Mallahan video that was produced by the Seattle Firefighter's Union on behalf of Mallahan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsltmud8cvk

2. Takayo Ederer, a candidate of the city council in District 2, is the only candidate who represents Southeast -Seate who did not answer an interview on publicola. Since the only information I have about Ederer's political views comes from my co-moderator from Seattle Nice Podcast Sandeep Kaushik (make that you will!), I decided to take a look at the political contributions that she and her husband, real estate investor Daniel Ederer have taken over the years.

Here is a quick, incomprehensible list that should give you an idea of ​​Ederer's political tendencies and (maybe) the reason why she didn't bother to recall publicola. In 2025, Ederer listed her job status as a “unemployed” and her job as a “housewife”, although media reports also described her as a karate teacher and owner of her family's karate studio.

• Republican city administration Ann Davison (2025);

• Mayor Bruce Harrell;

• Republican governor candidate Dave Reichert (2024)

• We Heart Seattle Activist and 43. District State House candidate Andrea Suarez (2024)

• Remember the Khama Sawant campaign (2021)

• City council member Sara Nelson (2021 and 2017 when she lost her first advice for the council)

• Conservative district 2 Council candidate who was turned to the right.

Voting documents show that Ederer has skipped a number of local elections in recent years, including general and primary elections in 2017 and 2021.

Although Ederer grew up in Columbia City, the Ederers lived in Laurelhurst until 2016, then in Madison Park. The family lives in a diluted enclave. After selling their Madison Park House for $ 2 million, they bought a 2.3 million dollar house with a view of the water on a 15,000 square meter property in Seward Park. According to public records, they have doubled the size of the house since then and increased their value to 3.5 million US dollars.

According to campaign financing records, Ederer reported an annual income between $ 530,000 and 860,000 per year and has assets with her husband worth at least $ 13 million without counting her house. However, Ederer's true assets are almost much higher, since nine of their 22 sources for investment results have values ​​in “more than $ 1,000 $ 1”.

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This 13 million dollar number is low in other ways: it represents the lowest area of ​​any asset that is listed in Ederer's financial report. Suppose the higher end of the area (and still every nine “more than 1,000,000 US dollars” than exactly one million dollars) this is a net assets of at least $ 15,000,000.

For comparison: According to records on campaign financing, the entire assets of the current city council with nine members who do not count as a real estate is less than $ 7 million.

In the election, Ederer would be the richest member of the city council of recent history. Although the mayor (and former council member) Bruce Harrell, who also lives in a house of 3.5 million US dollars on a huge property in Seward Park, reported on a similar household income, his non-real estate “only” added up to at least $ 1.6 million.

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