Clyde Shavers, the state legislative candidate who was accused of embellishing his military record, now trails Republican incumbent Greg Gilday in the 10th Legislative District race.
The latest tally shows Gilday leads Shavers by just 15 votes. Gilday has tallied 34,940 votes (49.94%) while Shavers has received 34,925 votes (49.92%), as of Tuesday afternoon.
Shavers held the initial lead over Gilday on election night, but after Shavers’ father outed him in a letter days before the Nov. 8 ballot deadline, claiming his son lied about being a submarine officer, Gilday has been steadily gaining enough momentum to take his first lead a week after Election Day.
Republicans have since asked in-state Democrats to pull their support for him, something the Daily Herald of Everett did shortly after the letter was released.
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“The editorial board learned Tuesday that a candidate for the 10th Legislative District, Clyde Shavers, a Democrat, had made two serious misrepresentations regarding his career record,” The Herald Editorial Board wrote two weeks ago. “Because of those misrepresentations, the editorial board is rescinding its endorsement of Shavers, first published on Sept. 20, and now endorses the incumbent, state Rep. Greg Gilday, Republican.”
Gilday was an attorney with the law office of Cole & Gilday, and a managing broker with Windermere Real Estate, before turning to politics, where he defeated Angie Homola by 891 votes in 2020 to become a state representative.
The state’s safety rest area program, the landlord mitigation program, teacher retirement pensions, and the imagination library are just some of the bills sponsored by Gilday during his first term.
He also serves as a member of the Housing, Human Services, and Veterans Committee; the Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee; and the Rules and Capital Budget committees.
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Heading into this election, the state’s budget, inflation, and overall economic downturn were three areas Gilday focused on in his campaign, stressing these issues need “immediate attention.”
“Unfortunately, the majority party passed higher taxes and fees and spent too much in the last budget,” Gilday said at a public forum. “Fixing that huge mistake is going to be job one. We also need to fix the bad bills that stopped police from doing their job and address the harm to kids from the pandemic school closures.”
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