Footnotes

King County’s official results show on page 3 that the Metropolitan King County Council District No. 9 race had 38.25% turnout, with 61,000 ballots counted.

Reagan Dunn won the election with 36,169 votes against Kim-Khanh Van’s 21,895.

In 2024, District 9 cast 136,831 votes in the presidential election.

Notes on data collection:

This is normally a difficult number to find. It's trivial to find voting data for counties and congressional districts as a whole, and the Washington Secretary of State website provides a downloadable precinct-level breakdown of votes cast during each election. But election data isn't usually collected at the level of County Council districts.

However, King County provides a list of precincts and their associated districts in a downloadable format, and it's possible to correlate these with the precinct codes in the Secretary of State's data. This means it was possible to get King County Council District 9 voting results aggregate the precinct-level data for the precincts that make up our district.

In 2024, District 9 cast 78984 votes for Harris, 52571 votes for Trump, and 5276 votes for all other candidates combined.

Those nearly 79k votes cast for Harris account for 60% of the 136.8k votes cast in District 9, and Trump's votes accounted for 39.9%.

Our data collection method is the same as from Footnote 2, aggregating Washington Secretary of State precinct-level data.

You can see all of Reagan Dunn’s reported donors for his 2025 campaign on the PDC website at https://pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/candidates/567421#contributions

On March 20, Dunn accepted maximum-value donations from multi-millionaire couple Brian and Rochelle Heywood.

Brian Heywood has spent millions to get anti-climate and anti-trans initiatives on our ballots. Heywood has also donated significant amounts to Trump appointees Joe Kent and Robert F Kennedy Jr., and Trump’s 2016 transition team vice-chair Cathy McMorris Roberts.

On September 30, 2025, Reagan Dunn accepted a maximum-value donation from Freema Holdings LLC, a family-owned real estate company also known as Kemper Development, run by Kemper Freeman Jr.

As of 2016, Freeman and his daughters held the majority stake in his family’s estimated 2 billion dollars of holdings.

Though Freeman served in the Washington State House of Representatives as a Democrat in the 70s, he also donated $100,000 to the Trump Victory Fund, and has been consistently donating to Republicans and Republican Parties across the country in the past several years, including local MAGA candidates.

On May 16, Reagan Dunn received the maximum allowable contribution from Amazon.

Amazon has several instances of war profiteering: In Israel, “It provides cloud services to all branches of the Israeli government, including the military…weapons manufacturers…and government agencies related to Israel's illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.”

Amazon also owns almost a 20% stake in the airline that provides deportation flights for ICE, and hosts a variety of systems related to immigration surveillance, case management, and processing, as well as systems specifically used for targeting citizens for citizenship revocation, and attempted to expand into facial recognition for ICE use.

King County Council passed a law in 2009 to ensure immigrant residents had access to public health facilities and resources, and that, functionally, federal agents could not profile immigrants or arrest them without probable cause.

In 2016, the council strengthened those protections by:

• Limiting how county employees could collect data about immigration status

• Banning county employees from detaining individuals on behalf of federal law enforcement

• Banning employees from expending county resources on facilitating federal immigration enforcement, except where required by law.

That last point is important; ICE regularly uses what they call Administrative Warrants to perform extrajudicial arrests and raids. But administrative "warrants" are not the same thing as a Judicial Warrant.

Administrative "warrants" are forms signed by ICE employees, saying what they want to do. They do not give ICE agents the legal right to enter private areas or access private data.

Only a Judicial Warrant signed by a judge can provide that access. Without a Judicial Warrant, any forced, compelled, or even consenting access is extrajudicial and warrantless - regardless of what ICE wants to call their form.

Ordinance 18665 Section 2I from 2018 means that without a Judicial Warrant, King County employees may not spend any county time, money, or resources assisting in immigration activity. If ICE wants to get information about King County residents from King County records, they must go through a judge to do it.

In 2025, the Council expanded the protections further to require that contractors providing services to King County be held to the same standards as employees, so that ICE could not get around the law by having our contractors spend our resources helping them.

This law helps to prevent our residents from being abducted without warning, and helps to ensure that every resident gets due process.

Reagan Dunn voted no on all three ordinances.

Jude would have voted yes, and supports expanding the ordinance to include organizations that work with ICE.

On November 12, 2024, King County Council passed Motion 2024-0279, to develop a regional workforce housing initiative implementation program. The vote passed 8-1, with Reagan Dunn opposing.

The text of the motion is available as Motion 16690, and the meeting minutes are available on the King County Legislation website.

This bond will be leveraged to increase housing availability for low-income households, combat the homelessness crisis, and stabilize the housing market in King County. The King County Executive proposed his plan for the bond in June 2025.

Jude wants to leverage King County’s construction bond to fund conditional second mortgages for owner-built accessory dwelling units (ADUs).

Accessory Dwelling Units are secondary structures on a property, designed for independent living. You may have heard of them as “mother-in-law suites” or “granny flats”. They can be as small as a tiny home in your back yard, or a full second house on multiple acres of land - as long as they meet local code requirements.

Because the land is already owned, ADUs can be built far cheaper than most single family homes. And since ADUs are lower in cost to build, and smaller than single-family homes, they are often rented at below market value, according to the 2023 WA State legislature.

This makes ADUs ideal candidates for low-income housing.

King County can encourage this sort of building by offering conditional second mortgages to homeowners building ADUs - with lower interest rates or partial deferrals as long as they participate in the Housing Choice Vouchers program or other low-income rental programs.

Jude’s plan for conditional second mortgages to fund these ADUs will stretch the construction bond further.

The prototypical example of conditional second mortgages is Habitat for Humanity. To allow low-income households to afford their homes, Habitat provides these second mortgages at very low interest rates, with ample opportunities for deferment and forgiveness. The terms of the mortgage result in near-guaranteed income going back to Habitat for Humanity, which they can use to build homes in the future.

Using the bond for these conditional second mortgages would stretch the bond money further in a few ways:

• ADUs are cheaper than single family homes, meaning more ADUs can be funded with the same amount of money

• The second mortgages will be for a portion of the construction cost, rather than the full construction cost, again funding more units.

• Mortgages are near-guaranteed return income, especially given that the mortgages are being used to build rental units

• Building in existing neighborhoods decreases infrastructure costs compared to new construction,

Additionally, this will benefit all parties involved in several ways:

• For homeowners: Building the ADU provides consistent rental income, made even more consistent by participation in the HCV program. The lowered cost from the second mortgage makes this available to more people.

• For the county: Collaborating with homeowners will increase buy-in for new construction in and around local neighborhoods. It will also expand availability of HCV housing, which has not opened its waitlist since 2020, according to its website.

• For the renters: Living in an established neighborhood means that the communities already have all the necessary facilities available. The renters will have immediate access to well-funded resources shopping centers, schools, and medical facilities.

On 10/29/2024, the Budget and Fiscal Management Committee advanced 2024-0279, the $1B bond discussed in footnote (8) to build affordable housing. In OVER AN HOUR of discussion, Dunn spoke only to vote NO (Meeting recording, at 1:19:28).

At the general meeting on 11/12/2024, Dunn again opposed the bill without discussion.

Ordinance 2021-0131 required landlords to provide just cause to evict tenants. Given the impact of the pandemic, it was sorely needed.

At the 6/29/2021 vote, Dunn voted no.

If Dunn got his way, landlords would have been allowed to evict even tenants who were paying on-time and consistently, who kept their units clean and well-maintained, and who had never caused a noise complaint or HOA violation.

Dunn has also voted against other tenant protections, such as a recent ordinance prohibiting algorithmic rent fixing (2025-0267).

At the 10/13/2020 meeting, Dunn voted against 2020-0337, an ordinance for building shelter for the homeless.

This ordinance specifically indicated a need for funding 6500 units of supportive housing for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness, including those who need substance use disorder treatment.

Reagan Dunn was the sole no vote on Motion 2022-0190, which affirmed Roe v. Wade preparation for the Supreme Court’s anticipated repeal of federal abortion protections in Dobbs v. Jackson.

His prepared statement in response to news organizations did not clarify - and in fact his claim of “support [for] a woman’s right to make her own decision” and that legality “should be left to the states to decide” is exactly contradictory to his vote.

If this motion were raised with Jude in office, it would have passed unanimously. Jude has been consistent supportive of human rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of abortion, gender affirming care, and general medical care access.

In October 2023, Reagan Dunn joined Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign, and called him the “future of the Republican Party”.

This was after Ron DeSantis had, as Governor of Florida, signed a 15-week abortion ban law in April of 2022, then fought in court to uphold it, then advocated for and ultimately signed into law a 6-week abortion ban in April of 2023.

These abortion bans, and DeSantis’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill are his most famous policies. Dunn himself said of DeSantis “I’ve seen what he’s done in Florida, and now I’m ready to see what he can do for the country as president”

In May 2025, Governor Ferguson signed HB 2015, a $100 million funding bill for criminal justice purposes.

Jude wants to use some of this funding to guarantee quick, appropriate emergency responses, by hiring additional officers and support and responding staff, including social workers and behavioral health professionals.

HB 2015 allows funding to be used for a wide variety of criminal-justice-related programs and systems, meaning that we have an opportunity to expand successful emergency response programs that involve non-police interventions.

Jude wants to expand programs like:

• Bellevue’s Community Crisis Assistance Team, which was tested in a 4-month pilot program that had fantastic results diverting individuals in crisis from arrest by connecting them with mental health professionals.

• Olympia’s Crisis Response Unit, in which behavioral health staff responds to 911 calls and potential crisis situations independently of police. CRU averages 500-600 contacts per quarter, with 0 injuries caused by clients in 3,108 total calls taken, and about 80% of calls not involving police presence at all

• The FD Cares team in Kent, which has numerous successes such as with a chronic 9-1-1 caller, and who responded to over 1000 calls in 8 months, getting care for both their direct patients, and the people around them. FD Cares is such a success that it saved $600k/year for the fire department and $1 million for the health for the fire department and $1 million/year on health care.

Though Reagan Dunn purports to prioritize criminal justice and public safety, he voted against 2025-0169, a one-tenth of one percent sales tax to fund staffing, domestic violence programs, and other criminal justice and public safety programs.

Reagan Dunn missed the committee vote for Ordinance 2018-0373, then voted no on the final vote.

This ordinance was for requiring secure storage of firearms in a gun safe or similar - a common-sense measure that any responsible gun owner should already be practicing.

Jude is a strong proponent of gun safety - he has even been awarded the 2025 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate Distinction. Jude would have voted to pass this ordinance

This statistic was calculated by a member of Jude’s campaign, using publicly available data from the King County Clerk of the Council website.

Of the recorded votes, we found 1207 votes where Dunn was recorded as “Excused”.

Of these, 291 were officially indexed (i.e. tagged) as Appointments.

By our own subject analysis, 227 of the votes Dunn missed were “Appointment”s - a similar number, though our analysis clearly did not identify all the appointment votes he missed.

We also found that 121 of the votes Dunn missed were related to “Parks”, and 129 were “Agreement”s (e.g., union contracts, purchases and sales of property, fire and police department service agreements).

If there are any particular categories of votes you are interested in, please contact us, and we will do our best to get you our aggregated data about Dunn’s voting and attendance record on that subject.

In addition to missing votes, Dunn also had some strange and concerning opposition votes. Notably, on at several occasions, Dunn has voted No on even acknowledging receipt of statutorily mandated reports brought to the Council, including an Critical Areas environmental management plan report, and three reports on budget requirements and policy recommendations for public safety programs he disagrees with (a diversion program‍, a restorative justice framework, and community-based alternatives to youth detention), each of which he opposed acknowledging twice.

• July 17, 1:01pm - 3:01pm Board of Health Meeting. 2:16pm Facebook post

• July 22, 9:34am - 11:50am Committee of the Whole. At 10:23 AM (during a briefing about Harborview Medical Center, per the meeting recording. Dunn made a Facebook post about touring a new skate park.

• Voted against an Increase to Solid Waste Disposal Fee (Trash pickup) This is in strategic climate action plan and comprehensive solid waste plan.

• Voted against accepting 30-year forest plan; and (per budget requirement) acknowledge receipt of an environmental monitoring plan proposal.