Incumbent Candidate Bush is in our neighborhood today, but he won’t be visiting Seattle. Instead, he’ll attend a private, $2,000-a-pop fund raising event in nearby Hunts Point, not-so-coincidentally in the only district in the county he won in the 2000 election. It’s also the sixth richest city in Washington.

But really, we should be grateful: like so many other cities saddled with the cost of security during his restricted access re-election campaign, Seattle can’t afford to have him visit, anyway.

Update: His 96 minute visit with donors - not the general public - cost up to $75,000, and now the city of Hunts Point is trying to find someone to pay the bill.