“ I thought it was a very good meeting with an interesting panel and I was happy to see all the members of the community come out for this issue. I look forward to further developments from the King County Council on public financing! ”

“ They didn't know what hit them! I can't wait to see how it looks on TV...everyone from our group who spoke was right on message (Marcee, that lawwyer is probably STILL shaking you off!). I only regret not taking the chance to gather money and effort when the opportunity presented itself. ”

“ I was impressed at how many people we turned out, and how many people spoke intelligently, articulately, and convincingly for public financing. I think we did quite an admirable job showing the County Council that a big majority of us want a good clean election system now! And kudos to Marcee for calling out those out of state right-wingers coming in here to tell us how to run our elections. I'm familiar with the Institute for Justice from my time in DC, and they are a bad special interest group! How nice that they have money to fly around the country telling other localities how to run their elections. I worry what may come of Councilwoman Lambert (R) conferring with them. I just wish the media had given us the much greater coverage we earned instead of covering fluff stories instead. ”