Tacoma residents will be hard-pressed to have missed the political advertising signs plastered all over town this spring.
Those signs meant nothing until candidates officially filed their declaration of candidacy by May 9 at 5 p.m. for the August primary ahead of this year’s general election in November. With Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards’ second term expiring, six candidates have thrown their hat in the ring to take her place.
The close of the candidate-filing period on Friday signaled the beginning of a three-month period of campaigning ahead of the Aug. 5 primary election, which will whittle down the list of candidates to two for the Nov. 4 general election…