Michael Robert Neher

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Michael Robert Neher

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Elections and appointments

Last election

November 5, 2019

Michael Robert Neher ran for election to the King County Council to represent District 8 in Washington. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2019.

Robert Neher completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2019

See also: Municipal elections in King County, Washington (2019)

General election

General election for King County Council District 8

Incumbent Joe McDermott defeated Michael Robert Neher in the general election for King County Council District 8 on November 5, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Joe McDermott (Nonpartisan)	83.7	56,753
	Submit photo	Michael Robert Neher (Nonpartisan)	15.8	10,729
		Other/Write-in votes	0.5	312

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 67,794
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for King County Council District 8

Incumbent Joe McDermott and Michael Robert Neher defeated GoodSpaceGuy in the primary for King County Council District 8 on August 6, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Joe McDermott (Nonpartisan)	83.9	41,743
✔	Submit photo	Michael Robert Neher (Nonpartisan)	11.0	5,487
		GoodSpaceGuy (Nonpartisan)	4.5	2,250
		Other/Write-in votes	0.6	279

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source 1 Source 2	Total votes: 49,759
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Campaign themes

2019

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Michael Robert Neher completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Robert Neher's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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What would be your top three priorities, if elected?

1) Public safety, 2) Addressing the homeless

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Public safety is the most pressing issue.

Public safety from violent crime is a fundamental responsibility of government, a critical measurement of our quality of life, and a key to reviving Seattle and King County.

As a New Democrat I would work with the county and cities on a community-based approach to crime-fighting aimed at making streets, neighborhoods, and public places safe for law abiding citizens.

Implementing community policing means deploying police officers whenever possible to assigned "beats" in specific neighborhoods. Officers are responsible for overall levels of public safety and for identifying patterns of disorder that breed high crime rates and encourage abandonment of territory to criminal predators.

We also need to expand the principle underlying community policing to other parts of the criminal justice system -- to prosecutors, parole and probation officers, and juvenile justice programs. Like the police, these officers should be given responsibility for particular neighborhoods and should work with the police to improve public safety.

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