Comments on: Hara Jumps into King County Assessor Race

By: joan mcardle

joan mcardle — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:01:17 +0000

I plan to vote for Hara, he will be a great assessor.

By: Linda Seltzer

Linda Seltzer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:09:57 +0000

I just received a call from the Hara campaign asking for my vote at the endorsement meeting. I have read the website and find Lloyd’s qualifications to be impressive. I have a policy question that I would like to have answered.
About 15-18% of a tenant’s rent payment pays the landlord’s property tax. If the landlord’s assessment, and therefore property taxes, are reduced, please explain what rebate program or other means can assure that the savings is passed on to the tenant, whose income is the source of the tax payment. Currently, the money comes from the tenant’s income, but it is the landlord, and not the tenant, who get the itemized deduction. Furthermore, a recent bill in Congress allowed property owners who don’t itemize to have a special property tax deduction. No such tax break was passed for renters. It seems that property tax reform is just a shift of taxation from home owners to renters. How is your assessment plan going to protect tenants in this regard? Please address this issue at the 48th LD meeting.

By: Steve Nesich

Steve Nesich — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:46:24 +0000

As a small business owner and concerned King County citizen and taxpayer, I’m happy to support Lloyd Hara for King County Assessor. I’m planning to do everything I can to raise awareness of Lloyd’s candidacy and persuade my friends and business associates to vote for him!

By: Lisa Plymate, M.D.

Lisa Plymate, M.D. — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:11:38 +0000

I endorse Hara for assessor.

By: Hara Campaign

Hara Campaign — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:43:10 +0000

Comments are open. We received more than 100 individual responses to last week’s invitation to supporters to express their opinions on the choice of races before this day of decision.

We’ll publish a broad sampling of these in a later post.