King County Council Chair Joe McDermott is running for Congress

King County Council Chair Joe McDermott on Wednesday announced that he will run for the 7th District seat in Congress being vacated with the retirement of 14-term Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. McDermott, no kin to the incumbent, is a 15-year legislator and council member from West Seattle. About 25 percent of voters in the 7th District live in the West Seattle-Burien-Vashon neighborhoods that he has represented in Olympia and at the King County Courthouse. King County Council member Joe McDermott, at the podium, is no kin to U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott.  But he is seeking the U.S. House seat of the retiring congressman, and has a formidable political base in