The cosmopolitan vote is rather thin on the ground in Spokane. The guy would do better in the 48th perhaps. :)
I'm not touching that last sentence. :-P
In any event, it's truly a shame what happened to West. He had been a distinguished State Senate (Majority sometimes) leader. He succeeded another less-than-stellar Mayor and was potentially a future statewide officeholder, but just simply lost his mind. He really should've had the common courtesy to have resigned when it all "came out" (pun unintended) and spared the city the $$ it cost to run an election anyone with one brain cell could tell the outcome of.
"The guy would do better in the 48th perhaps. :)"