[3] Pageler unsuccessfully ran for city council three times in the 1980s under the progressive neighborhood group Vision Seattle.

[1][3] In 1991, she ran for city council to fill the seat vacated by Paul Kraabel, who was retiring.

[6] Firestone, co-founder of the Seattle Progressive Coalition and a leader of the Seattle Green Party, ran to the left of Pageler and accused her of moving away from the progressive values of her 1991 campaign.

[1] Pageler would tout her accomplishments on the city council and her ability to make things work.

[10] Although she initially ran for city council as a progressive, Pageler governed more as a conservative.

[7] Pageler reimbursed the city $2,000 for the ad, and the Ethics and Elections Commission dismissed the complaint.