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Liberty Lake City Council Position 4

Election Results

Candidate Votes Pct
Jed Spencer 1,962 52.87%
Travis L. Scott 1,749 47.13%

* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.

The Candidates

Jed Spencer

Age:
44
City:
Liberty Lake, Washington

Education: Graduated from Central Valley High School in 1999. Earned a bachelor's degree in business management from BYU-Idaho.

Work Experience: Has worked in sales for about 18 years for his family's business, NBS Promos, a marketing promotion business based in Liberty Lake. Worked in customer service for BECU and Pitney Bowes. Served as the volunteer finance chair the Spokane Regional MarCom Association board of directors from 2015 to 2018.

Political Experience: Appointed to fill the Position 4 vacancy on Liberty Lake City Council in 2022.

Family: Married. Declined to name her. Has four children.

Travis L. Scott

Age:
49
City:
Liberty Lake, Washington

Education: Graduated from Triton Central High School in Indiana in 1993. Earned bachelor's degree in public affairs with a focus on environmental science from Indiana University in 1998. Earned a master of business administration at the University of Colorado in 2006. 

Work Experience: Worked in recruitment for 12 years at companies like Microsoft, Comcast, and Booking.com. Acted as director of marketing for Industrial Specialties Mfg before founding his own consultant firm, RainierDigital.

Political Experience: Formerly a member of the Issaquah Rivers and Streams Board.

Family: Married to Kyla Scott. Has three children.

Complete Coverage

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