Seattle mayoral candidates raise nearly $2 million thanks to taxpayer-funded vouchers

Senate Republicans, Realtors, WEA reload campaign war chests

Candidates for Seattle mayor have raised nearly $2 million thus far, most of it from the taxpayers via the city’s democracy voucher program. And the early fundraising leader is a longshot whose campaign appears particularly adept at harvesting the vouchers.

For review, that program, approved by Seattle voters in 2015, sends every registered voter in the …