At The Stranger, Eli Sanders writes today about Sen. Hillary Clinton's fundraising in Seattle, which isn't going well. He says that last month's fundraiser headlined by former President Bill Clinton brought in half what organizers had hoped for.

The Seattle fundraiser with Bill Clinton, held at the downtown Westin Hotel, was initially supposed to be a $500-a-plate affair. According to Susan Sheary, who chairs the King County Democrats and volunteered at the event, the price was subsequently dropped to $250 a plate — an indication that even the former president, who won this state by wide margins in both of his campaigns, was having a hard time drawing the desired crowd for Hillary Clinton.

Colby Underwood, the hotshot local Democratic fundraiser who was tapped by the Clinton campaign to pull off the event, said he could not comment on how much was raised. But Blake Zeff, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, told me via e-mail that Bill Clinton's appearance at the Westin raised $100,000 — only half of what organizers hoped.

Congressman Jay Inslee, a Clinton supporter, told Sanders that part of the problem is local Democrats just aren't Hillary Democrats.

"I love Democrats of all stripes," Inslee told me. "But the Democratic constituency of our state is a little different than other Democratic constituencies" — more educated, more white-collar, more affluent. "Hillary does very well with working moms, blue-collar workers, union or nonunion men."