Seattle's Proposition 1: A video primer

VIDEO: Prop. 1 would provide public funding for Seattle City Council races. Robert Mak explores the pros and cons.
VIDEO: Prop. 1 would provide public funding for Seattle City Council races. Robert Mak explores the pros and cons.

Would you raise your property taxes to pay for political campaigns? That's the question before Seattle voters in the form of Proposition 1, which would use revenue from a slight property tax hike to help support candidates for City Council. Veteran Northwest broadcaster (and Seattletopstory.com principal) Robert Mak sorts through the details.

  

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Robert Mak

Robert Mak

Robert Mak is a principal of Seattletopstory.com and a longtime broadcast reporter in Western Washington.