Runte ran for Position 3 on the Seattle City Council, formerly held by Peter Steinbrueck who announced he would not run for a fourth term.
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Alfred "Al" Runte (April 16, 1947 in New York) is an environmental historian and former college educator from Seattle who ran for mayor of Seattle in 2005.
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He spoke before a crowd of diverse neighborhood groups in early 2006 which marched on Woodland Park Zoo to protest the mayor's plans to build a parking garage in the middle of a city park.
Al Runte (born 1947), American environmental historian and college educator