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API candidates on the ballot
Compiled by Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
This year, election day for the primary election is on Aug. 1. Voters have until 8 p.m. that day to return their ballots or have them postmarked. A primary election is an election that narrows down the field of candidates before the general election in November. The following are candidates of Asian and/or Pacific Islander heritage in state races and also in King County races.
Manka Dhingra
Jinyoung Lee Englund
Vandana Slatter
Bea Querido-Rico
Preeti Shridhar
Hoang Tran
Satwinder Kaur
Elizabeth T. Peang
Uzma Butte
Imran Peerbhai
Benson D. Wong
Minal Kode Ghassemieh
Ryika Hooshangi
Rituja Indapure
Bob Hasegawa
Susan Chang
Linhui Hao
Betty Patu
Note: Northwest Asian Weekly does not endorse any candidate during the primary election.
STATE Legislative District 45, State Senator Manka Dhingra (Prefers Democratic Party) — A King County prosecutor since 2000, Dhingra supports women’s and immigrant’s rights through her work on the Seattle Police Department’s Muslim, Arab, and Sikh Advisory Council. see CANDIDATES on 12
World-class hotel funded in part by immigrants By Ruth Bayang NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
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see HYATT on 15
Photo by George Liu/NWAW
A dream nearly two decades in the making is now a reality. July 10 was the grand opening of the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington hotel in Renton — the only waterfront hotel within 10 miles of SeaTac Airport, and the Hyatt Regency brand’s third Seattle-area hotel. Located on the Southport campus, the new 12-story, 347-room hotel, was built by SECO Development and financed with its own equity and money from mostly Chinese investors through the federal government’s EB-5 immigrant investor program. For this particular project, the EB-5 program granted permanent residency to immigrants and their Seahawk’s Doug Baldwin cuts the ribbon at the Hyatt grand opening with Min and Michael Christ, Renton Mayor Denis Law, and Hyatt’s Rusty Middleton, Peter Sears, and other dignitaries on July 10.
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Amid new sex abuse findings, González calls on Murray to step down, Murray says no, Harrell cautions against judgement By Staff NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
Mayor Ed Murray
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On Sunday, July 16, the Seattle Times reported that the Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) finally released unearthed old records — records previously thought to have been destroyed — in the name of public interest. The child welfare investigation records indicate that Oregon’s DHS found that Seattle Mayor Ed Murray had sexually abused a foster son,
Jeff Simpson, in 1984. At the time, Oregon state officials stated that Murray would never be a foster parent in the state again. Also at the time, the Multnomah County prosecutor declined to press charges, reportedly due to the fact that Simpson had a troubled personality that made the case difficult to try at the time, not because they found the allegations baseless. Four men have claimed that Murray sexually abused them as teenagers. Murray’s former foster son, Jeff Simpson, is one of
Murray’s accusers. Publicly, Murray has claimed that the abuse allegations are without merit and are politically motivated. Earlier this year, Murray declined to seek another term as Seattle mayor amid the controversy. Murray maintains that he is innocent of the allegations, as he was never indicted or convicted. After news of the DHS report broke, one see MURRAY on 13
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