Welcome to The Stranger’s July Issue

We don’t know how it happened, but it’s election season again. The season when the Stranger Election Control Board, our intrepid team of political obsessives, drags our elected officials (and aspiring electeds) into our un-airconditioned conference room to interrogate them, eat their bribes, and, ultimately, tell all of Seattle how to vote.  We aren’t electing any executives this year—no mayors or governors or county execs—so this election is all about legisla