BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Michael Lilliquist is winning his Bellingham City Council race with and Catherine Chambers.
“It’s trending really well right now. I think I’ll chance it – it might hold up, but you never know. I just think we did a lot of hard work, and I think it’s paid off,” said Lilliquist Tuesday.
He has 56 percent and Chambers has 44 percent.
“I thought it was a good race. I think it’s always a better race when more people pay attention to it, and the more people pay attention, I think the better the outcome is,” said Lilliquist.
In the other Bellingham City Council race, we won’t know how many people voted for write-in candidate Orphalee Smith until later, but her opponent Seth Fleetwood has over 9,000 of the approximately 12,000 city votes counted so far.
“Of course the conventional wisdom was always that write-ins have a real hard time, but I always knew it didn’t guarantee anything,” said Fleetwood Tuesday.
It looks like he will win the election.
“She outspent me 25, 30-to-one, so I didn’t know whether or not that might equalize things,” Fleetwood said.
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