🗳Tri-Cities Vote:
2021 Election
A nonpartisan community-driven collection
of information to help you decide.
How to use this guide
Research candidates’ views,
donors, and endorsements
Dang near everything on this site is a link. We’ve collected links to regional questionnaires, interviews, forums, and written endorsements, plus donor data for all Washington State PDC candidates. (We’ll get FEC data next time around.) You can compare side by side or look at each candidate and see their donor details. You can drill all the way down to the candidate’s PDC filing.
Quickly compare candidate
leanings on top issues
Our A/B questionnaire is based on top issues identified over recent years by the public and candidates themselves. Our process is imperfect, but it’s intended to be nonpartisan and impartial while mirroring the messiness of being an elected official and a voter, where nearly all decisions are choices between two options you didn’t come up with. Read more about our approach.
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their additional comments
We painstakingly worked to encourage all candidates to participate. Our process is rigorous and some chose not to.
We have done our best to speculate on the positions of candidates who did not answer to the best of our ability based on comments, traditional party positions, publicly available information, and input from engaged citizens.
Kennewick City Council Pos 1
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Gretl Crawford
Engagement:
Donors
💰$19,345 from 49+ donors, including
- Jeffrey Marzyck
Endorsements and letters
Don Britain
Engagement:
Donors
💰$15,023 from 21+ donors, including
- Michael S. Cochrane
- Jim and AJ Foster
- Sue Frost
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Kennewick City Council Pos 2
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Steve Lee
Engagement:
Donors
💰$29,467 from 63+ donors, including
- Jim and AJ Foster
- Sue Frost
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Loren Anderson
Engagement:
Donors
💰$3,285 from 18+ donors, including
- Jeffrey Marzyck
Endorsements and letters
Kennewick City Council Pos 3
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John Trumbo
Engagement:
Donors
💰$7,283 from 24+ donors, including
- Michael S. Cochrane
- Jeffrey Marzyck
- Kurt C. Gustafson
- Michael Richardson
Endorsements and letters
Kennewick City Council Pos 4
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Bill McKay
Engagement:
Donors
💰$4,600 from 8+ donors, including
- Michael S. Cochrane
- Amy Goatley
- Reg Unterseher
Endorsements and letters
Ken Short
Engagement:
Donors
💰$15,376 from 103+ donors, including
- Sue Frost
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Kennewick School Board Pos 1
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Micah Valentine
Engagement:
Donors
💰$69 from 3+ donors, including
- Tana Bentley
Endorsements and letters
Kennewick School Board Pos 2
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Gabe Galbraith
Engagement:
Donors
💰$6,532 from 56+ donors, including
- Tri-City Herald
- Amy Goatley
- Jeffrey Marzyck
Endorsements and letters
Pasco City Council Pos 3
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Nikki Torres
Engagement:
Donors
💰$15,353 from 59+ donors, including
- John Kennedy
- Tri-City Herald
- Felix Vargas
Endorsements and letters
Leo Perales
Engagement:
Donors
💰$3,536 from 3+ donors, including
- David Cortinas
- Latinos Business Association
Endorsements and letters
Pasco School Board Pos 3
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Cynthia Ledesma
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
Steve Christensen
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Pasco School Board Pos 5
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Amy Phillips
Engagement:
Donors
💰$5,076 from 15+ donors, including
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Michelle Andres
Engagement:
Donors
💰$16,123 from 39+ donors, including
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
Richland City Council Pos 1
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Chauné Fitzgerald
Engagement:
Donors
💰$17,498 from 95+ donors, including
- Betty Hollowell
- Alan C. Rither
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Jhoanna Jones
Engagement:
Donors
💰$14,321 from 22+ donors, including
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
Richland City Council Pos 2
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Theresa Richardson
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
Marianne Boring
Engagement:
Donors
💰$384 from 7+ donors, including
- Barbara Puigh
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Richland City Council Pos 3
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Larry Stanley
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
Sandra Kent
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Richland City Council Pos 4
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Ginger Wireman
Engagement:
Donors
💰$8,478 from 102+ donors, including
- Judy Sweeney
Endorsements and letters
Ryan Lukson
Engagement:
Donors
💰$2,980 from 7+ donors, including
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Richland City Council Pos 7
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Kurt H Maier
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
Michael Alvarez
Engagement:
Donors
💰$14,359 from 8+ donors, including
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Richland School Board Pos 1
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Richland School Board Pos 2
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Rick Jansons
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
- Ed Smith
- Dori Luzzo Gilmour
- Elizabeth Lugo
- Janell Hales
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Ben Griggs
Engagement:
Donors
💰$19,126 from 91+ donors, including
- Jeffrey Marzyck
Endorsements and letters
Richland School Board Pos 3
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Elizabeth Vann-Clark
Engagement:
Donors
💰$8,327 from 95+ donors, including
- Dori Luzzo Gilmour
- Elizabeth Lugo
- Tri-City Herald
- Amedee Marx
- Kim Lehrman
Endorsements and letters
Misipati Semi Bird
Engagement:
Donors
💰$8,855 from 88+ donors, including
- Jeffrey Marzyck
Endorsements and letters
West Richland City Council Pos 1
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Steven Davis
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
John E. Smart
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
West Richland City Council Pos 2
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Ken Stoker
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Theresa L Morrell
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.
West Richland City Council Pos 3
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Gail Brown
Engagement:
Self-funded / mini-filer
- Nancy Aldrich
Endorsements and letters
May Hays
Engagement:
Donors
💰$2,332 from 17+ donors, including
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
West Richland Mayor
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Kate Moran
Engagement:
Donors
💰$10,105 from 43+ donors, including
- Nancy Aldrich
- Tri-City Herald
Endorsements and letters
Brent Gerry
Engagement:
Donors
💰$9,500 from 12+ donors, including
Endorsements and letters
No letters of support or opposition listed yet.