Today the McGinn campaign circulated the attached map, showing all the places where Mike has sponsored “Town Hall” meetings. The mailing quoted the Seattle Times:

Part of Mike McGinn’s inexpensive mayoral campaign strategy has been to make himself available through 18 town-hall meetings around the city.

and quoted McGinn himself:

“The town halls were a chance not only for Seattle voters to ask me questions, but also a great way for me to hear directly from residents about what they think is important in their community.  All too often a barrier is erected between a few decision-makers and those frustrated many who cannot get their voices heard,” said McGinn.

The meetings  do indeed seem to be pretty well distributed around Seattle, except for the Capitol Hill area. Given the high population density of the Capitol Hill area (see attached city density map), this seems to be rather an oversight.

Fortunately, the Capitol Hill Community Council has arranged a Mayoral Forum, so you will be able to question the candidates yourself:

Capitol Hill Community Council Mayoral Forum

Saturday, October 17^th, 4-6pm, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University.

( http://tinyurl.com/forum-map)

 The idea behind this forum is to highlight community and neighborhood activism.

 We want to dig into the candidates’ own history with neighborhood activism, test their knowledge and history of the DON, and generally get an understanding of where they see community groups in the sphere of city politics.

 We are really hoping to have a good turnout because we also want to show these candidates how committed we are to our communities.

Send questions for the candidates to Hong Chhuor at [email protected].