You gotta love this about a two-newspaper town: endorsements for everyone. Not that this is unusual for the Seattle Times, where endorsements lean Republican, or Post-Intelligencer, where they tend Democratic. But fun anyway.
So who you gonna vote for in the King County prosecutor race, in a choice between two candidates - Republican incumbent (recent appointee) Dan Satterberg and Democratic challenger Bill Sherman - each considered at least capable and adeuate choices?
PI endorsement: "A clearer desire for change sets Sherman slightly but promisingly apart."
Times endorsement: Sherman "is up against a wall of experience, and he does not make enough of a case to knock it down. . . . Satterberg, interim King County prosecutor, deserves election to the remaining three years of the term of the late prosecuting attorney, Norm Maleng. His experience in the office gives him the edge . . ."
The Times' David Postman, who interviewed both candidates Wednesday, has posted the audio and his short comments on the encounter. His thought: "The Cliff Notes version of that would be: Satterberg: Norm; Sherman: Democrat."
And that seems to be what underlies this, in a case where two reasonably qualified attorneys are up against each other: Regard for long-time Prosecutor Norm Maleng against the county's Democratic tilt. (Although, consider as well this rundown by the PI's Joel Connelly.)