When will the 41st Democrats stop interfering in what is supposed to be a non-partisan race? By law, city council races for Mercer Island are "non-partisan".  The D party does not respect that law. To me the real problem is not a lack of civility, or claimed lack of civility whenever there is push-back to the D party supported candidate. Rather, the problem is the D party turning Mercer Island city council races into political party races in order to maintain a council majority willing to subjugate island interests to the D party interests of Seattle, King County, Sound Transit, and D-party dominated state level interests.  Remember: Judy Clibborn wanted to toll I-90. Bassett, Grausz, Bertlin tried to help her. It was the non-partisan NO Toll on I-90 effort on and off-island that defeated tolling, not the D-dominated city council majority promoting tolling everyone but us. The D-dominated city council also defeated Mercer Island SOV access to I-90's HOV lanes and promised mitigation.