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Pierce County Councilman Shawn BunneyPierce County Councilmember Shawn Bunney (R-Lake Tapps) is the first one on the air in the hotly contested race for Pierce County Executive, the TNT is reporting.

The ad focuses on the issues of jobs and transportation, suggesting that Pierce County is in need of leadership to enact large transportation projects in order

"In these tough economic times we can trust Shawn Bunney to do the right thing for jobs and transportation," an announcer says, followed by Tacoma City Councilmember Rick Talbert explaining how Bunney will work to keep local taxes in the area for projects that the ad claims will create 80,000 jobs.

MINNEAPOLIS -Dick Muri, who serves on the Pierce County along with two of the top candidates for Pierce County Executive this year, Shawn Bunney (R-Bonney Lake) and Calvin Goings (D-Puyallup), feels that Bunney is best positioned to win the election this November.

"I think the dynamic of the ballot is going to give Shawn Bunney the clear advantage," Muri said.

Muri predicted that Goings would split votes almost equally with fellow Democrat Pat McCarthy, who is the Pierce County Auditor, giving Bunney the win. Also running is Mike Lonergan, who is running under the Executive Excellence banner. After each round of ballots, the last place candidate is eliminated, and their second choice than gets their vote. When one candidate receives a majority they are declared the winner.

UPDATE: The two middle paragraphs were mistakenly deleted when the full article was first published. The mistake has been corrected. 

MINNEAPOLIS -This is Pierce County Councilmember Dick Muri's first national convention, and after just one event he is already fired up for the rest of the week. Coming into the convention, one of the key things he was looking forward to was meeting a lot of great people, and after today's luncheon meeting he has already met with what he thinks is a great idea.

Muri was impressed by Grover Norquist's call to open up all government spending to public view. He said he was going to call fellow Councilmember Shawn Bunney (R-Bonney Lake) as soon as he could and tell him that they need to make it a party platform issue in Pierce County.

Pierce County Councilmember Calvin Goings (D-Puyallup) added yet another endorsement to his list of backers. The campaign announced today that the 25th Legislative District Democrats, from Puyallup, Fife, Milton and Edgewood, issued a sole endorsement to Goings at their monthly meeting last week.

"The 25th Democrats are proud to give our sole endorsement to Calvin Goings. His leadership in the private sector and his hands on experience dealing with the key issues facing Pierce County are critical to our future," said Lauren Adler, Chair of the 25th District Democrats.

The Washington Conservation Voters, a leading environmental interest group, announced Thursday that they are giving Calvin Goings (D-Puyallup) their sole endorsement for Pierce County Executive.

"For over a decade Calvin Goings has shown a record of environmental leadership on many of our most pressing community priorities," said Sarah Lowe, the co-chair of Pierce County WCV, in a statement.

A proposed ballot measure intending to raise property taxes in Pierce County to protect farm and conservation land was Pierce County Councilman Shawn Bunneykilled in committee Monday in the Pierce County Council. The bill, which would have raised tax by a few cents per every $1,000 of assessed property value, was proposed by Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg.

But two of those who killed the measure, Councilmembers Calvin Goings (D-Puyallup) and Shawn Bunney (R-Lake Tapps), are vying to replace the outgoing Ladenburg as county executive. Going and Bunney both serve on the Rules Committee along with Council Chair Terry Lee and voted 3-0 to postpone the bill indefinitely.

Tacoma City Councilman Mike Lonergan has declared his intention to stay in the race for Pierce County Executive as an independent candidate, despite having failed in his bid to become the Republican candidate at the Pierce County GOP convention a week ago.

He had this to say in a release about his chances in the upcoming "ranked choice" vote that will be taking place for Pierce County-wide elections.

Tacoma City Councilman and Pierce County Executive candidate Mike Lonergan, who initially announced he would run as an independent, has decided to instead seek the Republican nomination to the post. This decision comes just one day before tomorrow's Pierce County Republican convention and undoubtedly comes as a reaction to the Top Two primary ruling.

The main points of his message is below, from a release.  read more »