I trust John Stokes. He has dedicated his career and his free time to the public. He’s been an attorney for the Social Security Administration, a trustee of the Bellevue Schools Foundation, the state PTA’s “Outstanding Advocate,” and a member of Bellevue’s Parks and Community Services Board.

I don’t trust the forces supporting Aaron Laing. In order to win a city council spot for Laing, these people have sunk to a new low, attacking John Stokes’s reputation with lies and exaggerations, sullying Bellevue in the process.

Vote for John Stokes. He will be a voice for us, not for Kemper Freeman.

Debbie Margolis, Bellevue