ELECTION 2016: RESULTS • STORIES • DATA DASHBOARD
EVERETT — Snohomish County Public Utility District Commissioner Toni Olson was leading challenger Gordy Sibley in early election results Tuesday.
Both candidates ran low-profile campaigns with shoe-string budgets in the race for the utility’s District 3 seat.
Olson, a two-term incumbent and former PUD manager, ran on her experience and pledged to continue initiatives such as upgrading the power grid and encouraging customer-owned solar power. She also has questioned the need for the controversial Sunset Falls project — the PUD’s proposal to build a hydroelectric power plant on the South Fork Skykomish River.
Sibley, a retired PUD mechanic, ran on a reform platform and promised tough oversight of spending and to hold down electricity rates.
Of the ballots counted so far Olson was leading with 61.5 percent to Sibley’s 38 percent.
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