At The Stranger, Josh Feit continues his reporting on The Seattle Times endorsement of Mike McGavick.

He has an editorial on it in this week's paper. And on the Slog he writes about an interview he had with Times Editorial Page Editor Jim Vesely. Vesely said "the estate tax came up in the editorial board's deliberations, but it 'wasn't the tipping point.' He said, 'it always comes up, but it's like 10th on the list ... it's not critical.'"

You can see from Feit's editorial he was not convinced. He did get a chance to follow up on his reporting last week that found a list of issues the Times is on the record supporting that McGavick opposes.

Vesely acknowledged this, saying: "We said in the endorsement that we agree with Senator Cantwell on a lot of issues like on ANWR, and we disagree with McGavick on ANWR and the flag burning amendment and gay marriage and stem cell research... and the question comes to mind, 'What on earth are we doing?' ... and it comes down to how much potential does the candidate have for the next six years."

In other endorsement news, the Spokesman Review today announced its support for McGavick.