"An appraiser in the assessor's office for 24 years, Rosenberger has relevant experience his leading opponent, former Port Commissioner Lloyd Hara, lacks. As county assessor, Rosenberger has vowed to take a new look at 103 property-tax exemptions he says have shifted the county's tax burden onto working-class families; to "counter the misinformation" put out by anti-tax initiative crusader Tim Eyman; and to push the state to index the income threshold to qualify for a low-income or senior property tax exemption to a county's median income, which would help low-income folks in more expensive areas like King County. (He's also vowed to take a pay cut of $24,000....)".
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