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Ah, the political season. Swaying chandeliers casting crystalline glares across the movers and shakers of sound-bite squabbles. Crested, folded napkins wedged into snifters, wilting in the drunken haze of chortled exchanges more revealing than they ought to be. Knowing gazes and frowning throat-clearings punctuating perfectly orchestrated gala affairs full of couples waltzing the networking-mingle waltz of getting ahead and, quite possibly, getting some head while they're at it. "Oh, senator, you're so naughty," etc.

This is not Tacoma.

Tacoma does this:

North End Neighborhood Council's Annual Candidates’ Forum
Monday, Oct., 13, 6 p.m.
University of Puget Sound’s Trimble Hall, in the Forum Room, North 14th and North Lawrence across from UPS Student Center rotunda

Candidates invited include those in the races for:
State Attorney General
State Treasurer
27th District Representative, Pos. 1 & 2
27th District Senate
Pierce County Executive
Pierce County Council Pos. 4
Pierce County Assessor/Treasurer
Pierce County Sheriff

Other candidates may be announced at the Forum.

For the full scoop, call the NENC office at 253.345.2575