Elected & Community Leaders Early Endorsing Rod in 2025

Candidate filing week for 2025 races is not until May of 2025, but Rod is honored to have the following early endorsements for re-election from local, regional, statewide and federal leaders:

• Attorney General Bob Ferguson
  
• Lt. Governor Denny Heck
  
• State Treasurer Mike Pellicciotti
• Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (7th CD)
• King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay
• King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda
• Senator Javier Valdez (46th LD)
• Representative Gerry Pollet (46th LD)
• Representative Darya Farivar (46th LD)
• Senator Jesse Salomon (32nd LD)
• Representative Julia Reed (36th LD)
• Representative Frank Chopp (43rd LD)
• Representative Tina Orwall (33rd LD)
• Shoreline Mayor Christopher Roberts
• Shoreline Deputy Mayor Laura Mork
• Shoreline Councilmember Eben Pobee
• Kenmore Deputy Mayor Melanie O'Cain
• Kenmore Councilmember Joe Marshall
• Kenmore Councilmember Debra Srebnik
• Lake Forest Park Mayor Tom French
• Lake Forest Park Councilmember Tracy Furutani
• Seattle Port Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa
• Seattle Port Commission President Hamdi Mohamed 
• Seattle Port Commissioner Fred Felleman
• Seattle Port Commissioner Sam Cho
• Seattle Port Commissioner Ryan Calkins
• Ed Prince, Renton City Council President

• Jeanne Kohl-Welles, King County Councilmember (Retired)
• Larry Gossett, King County Councilmember (Retired)
  
• Larry Phillips, King County Councilmember (Retired)
• Julia Patterson, King County Councilmember (Retired)
• Jan Drago, King County, and Seattle City Councilmember (Retired)
• David Frockt, Senator, 46th LD (Retired)
• Phyllis Gutierrez-Kenney, State Representative, 46th LD (Retired)
• Gael Tarleton, State Representative, 36th LD (Retired)
• Velma Veloria, State Representative, 11th LD (Retired)
• David Baker, Kenmore Mayor (Retired)
• Andy Rheaume, Bothell Mayor (Retired)
• Tom Agnew, Bothell City Council (Retired)
• Phillippa Kassover, Lake Forest Park Deputy Mayor (Retired)
• Ed Sterner, Lake Forest Park Councilmember (Retired)
• Dwight Thompson, Lake Forest Park Mayor Pro Tem (Retired)
• Bobbe Bridge, Justice, Supreme Court & Superior Court Judge (Retired)

Select Community Leaders

• George Ahearn
• Silje Sodal
• Staci and Eric Adman
• Scott Morris
• Michelle Merriweather
• Ming-Ming Tung-Edelman
• Lisa Daugaard
• Julianna Ross
• Cindy Domingo
• Nate Miles
• Ken Kassover

2021 Newspaper Editorial Boards

• The Seattle Times Dembowski for District 1
• The Stranger Dembowski for District 1
• Northwest Asian Weekly. One of only two county council candidates endorsed
• The Seattle Medium Our region’s leading paper for the African American community

Select Elected & Community Leaders Endorsing Rod in 2021

• Lt. Governor Denny Heck
• Attorney General Bob Ferguson
  
• State Treasurer Mike Pellicciotti
• Congresswoman Suzan DelBene
  
• Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda
• Seattle City Councilmember Alex Pedersen
• Frank Chopp (43rd LD)
• Senator David Frockt (46th LD)
  
• Representative Gerry Pollet (46th LD)
  
• Representative Javier Valdez (46th LD)
• Senator Derek Stanford (1st LD)
  
• Representative Davina Duerr (1st LD)
• Representative Shelley Koba (1st LD)
• Senator Jesse Salomon (32nd LD)
• Representative Cindy Ryu (32nd LD)
• Representative Lauren Davis (32nd LD)
  
• Jeanne Kohl-Welles, King County Councilmember
• Larry Gossett, Former King County Councilmember
  
• Larry Phillips, Former King County Councilmember
  
• Pete Holmes, Seattle City Attorney
• David Baker, Mayor of Kenmore
  
• Penny Sweet, Mayor of Kirkland
  
• Will Hall, Mayor of Shoreline
  
• Gary Harris, Mayor of Woodinville
• Liam Olsen, Mayor of Burien
• Angela Birney, Mayor of Redmond
• Jimmy Matta, Mayor of Burien
• Dana Ralph, Mayor of Kent
  
• Nancy Backus, Mayor of Auburn
  
• Leanne Guier, Mayor of Pacific
• Amy Ockerlander, Mayor of Duvall
• Phillippa Kassover, Deputy Mayor, Lake Forest Park
• Corina Pfeil, Kenmore City Council
• Melanie O’Cain, Kenmore City Council
• Nigel Herbig, Kenmore City Council
• Sally Bagshaw, Seattle City Councilmember (Ret.)
  
• Doris McConnell, Shoreline City Councilmember
• Chris Roberts, Shoreline City Councilmember
  
• Susan Boundy-Sanders, Woodinville City Councilmember
• Jon Pascal, Kirkland City Councilmember
• Tom Agnew, Bothell City Councilmember
• John Stokes, Bellevue City Councilmember

Select Endorsing Labor Organizations

• Martin Luther King County Labor Council ("MLK Labor")
  
• Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council
  
• Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587
  
• Central Puget Sound Carpenters
  
• Laborers International Union of North America Local 242
• Professional and Technical Employees Local 17 
  
• United Association Local 32
  
• Joint Council of Teamsters
• United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 21

Democratic Organizations

• King County Democrats, Sole Endorsement
• Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle, Sole Endorsement
  
• 1st District Democrats, Sole Endorsement
  
• 32nd District Democrats, Sole Endorsement
  
• 43rd District Democrats, Sole Endorsement
• 45th District Democrats, Sole Endorsement
  
• 46th District Democrats, Sole Endorsement
  

Select Endorsing Organizations

• Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Engagement
• Alliance for Gun Responsibility
• Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates West
• Seattle King County Realtors
• Fuse WA Progressive Voters Guide
• Washington Conservation Voters
  
• Transportation for Washington