1) The campaign received a small fine for reporting an invoice (not contribution, as Godden claimed) late that Bobby did not know about. As soon as it was brought to his attention the report was corrected.

2) Bobby’s 81 year old mother was sick and on a ventilator. Bobby used accrued sick leave to take care of his mother in the hospital.

3) Bobby believes (like most people) in helping small businesses and working to create jobs. He also has strong progressive values. To imply this is a contradiction is ridiculous.

4) Bobby believes in strong accountability measures for all city departments including the police department and believes the council has not engaged enough in responding to issues of excessive force that led to the current investigation by the United States Justice Department.

5) Bobby has a 20 year exemplary record with the City of Seattle rising from a job putting in parking meters to his current job as a contracting manager. To pull one line from one email out of context in his twenty year career is beneath the dignity of a Seattle campaign.

Please join Bobby Forch, our amazing volunteers and our supporters for a campaign celebration on election night! We’ll celebrate a great campaign and watch the election results as they are announced after 8:00 pm.

Bobby Forch Election Night Party
7:30 –  Tuesday, November 8th
The Diller Room
1224 1st Ave
Seattle, Washington

Please contact Crystal at 206-651-4642 or info@bobbyforch.com with any questions.  See you there!

Watch Bobby Forch and his opponent go head to head on important issues facing the City of Seattle, including parking, police accountability, and transportation:

I am very pleased to announce the endorsement of Seattle City Council Member Mike O’Brien.

“Everywhere I go in the community Bobby is there, working to better understand our neighborhoods and communities and the issues they face.  We need that same work ethic on city council and I know Bobby will bring it,” O’Brien said in a statement released by Forch’s campaign.” -Mike O’Brien

I am pleased that both he and Seattle Councilman Nick Licata have endorsed my campaign, and I look forward to working with them both to make progress on the issues most important to Seattle.

Ali Johnson is a student at Northwest High School and a very talented ballet, hip-hop and modern dancer.  She also enjoys political activism and is truly a phone banking force to be reckoned with.  Several voters who were on the fence before speaking with Ali are now full-fledged, sign-toting Bobby Forch supporters!

Thanks so much for all of your hard work, Ali!

We had a busy Sunday at Team Forch as over 25 volunteers hit the phone making over 3,500 calls!

Thanks everybody!

Soriya is a Seattle native and a senior at Northwest High School, where she plays ultimate frisbee and works with the Asian American Association.  She hopes to become a pediatrician some day and help keep Seattle a healthy and happy city.

Today, she made over 150 calls to voters for Bobby Forch!  Thanks so much for your help, Soriya!

I am honored to announce that I have received the endorsement of Carpenters Local 41.  Thank you for your support!

Thanks to everyone cranking out the calls!

With last night’s endorsement by the 43rd District Democrats, I have achieved what no other challenger has before in a City of Seattle election – I have been endorsed by every single Democratic Legislative District in the city of Seattle.

I’m energized by the support that my campaign continues to receive.  In addition to being the highest rated candidate by the Municipal League and receiving a “100% Pro-Choice” rating by NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, my campaign is supported by a broad coalition of labor, elected officials, business, environmental, and community leaders that is rarely seen in any campaign – including Seattle City Councilman Nick Licata, King County Councilman Larry Gossett, Rep. Eric Pettigrew, Rep. Sharon Tomiko-Santos, Rep. Zack Hudgins, Port Commissioner Rob Holland, The Stranger, Seattle Building and Construction Trades Council, The Sierra Club, Cascade Bicycle Club, Laborers’ Local 440, and hundreds of others.

I continue to be humbled by all of the grassroots support that my campaign is receiving. We have hundreds of volunteers phone banking and canvassing neighborhoods, and continue to gain more support with each community meeting and event we attend each day.  My campaign has always been about representing the values and concerns of real people, and people are clearly ready to see someone walk the talk – whether its the need to build trust between police and our neighborhoods, give people more transit choices to move around, or meeting and listening with people in every part of our city.

Ballots will get mailed in a month and we still have a lot of work to do.  I’m excited to see the momentum and support continue to build, and I look forward to working hard through the rest of the election and representing you as your next City Councilman.