Friday, May 10, was the filing deadline for the race, and four candidates are running.
Chinatown-International District activist and business owner Tanya Woo was appointed by the Council in January to temporarily fill Position 8 and is running to stay in the seat.
Woo will face three candidates in August’s primary — Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Saunatina Sanchez and Tariq Yusuf — who are positioning themselves as progressive alternatives to the new Council majority’s more moderate business-friendly, pro-police politics.
Rinck is an assistant director at the University of Washington working on state budget and policy issues for the school. Prior to that she held engagement and policy analyst positions at the
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