Outside interests spend more than $1M on Seattle City Council races

Combined, those six independent committees have raised nearly $853,000 from many dozens of donors. Not every committee has the same set of donors, but there is overlap in the donor base among all these groups. For example, the Master Builders Association’s Affordable Housing Council is a top donor in four of the six committees with a total of $125,000 in contributions. NAIOP, the commercial real estate association, contributed to the same four groups.

Seattle’s Hospitality for Progress contributed to four committees and transportation and logistics company Saltchuk Resources contributed to five. Goodman Real Estate CEO George Petrie, Seattle’s leading Trump donor in 2021, contributed $10,000 to the independent committee in

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