Margaret Pageler

Margaret Pageler is a former Seattle City Council member in Position 5 from 1992 until 2004.

Early life and education Pageler was born in rural China to missionary parents. She stayed in China and Taiwan until her teens.

Pageler would attend multiple schools in Illinois for college; Wheaton College for her bachelor's degree in Social Studies, Northern Illinois University for her master's in school administration, and the University of Chicago Law School.

Pageler was a former schoolteacher,

In 1995, Pageler ran for reelection against perennial candidate Charlie Chong. Pageler would win in a landslide against Chong, 69% to 31%. 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. garnering 25%. Pageler ran as a "rock" and "voice of reason" stating, "I'm the one who opposes silly resolutions and stays out of all the scandals," (referring to the Strippergate Scandal.)

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

Ethics complaint

In 1999, before the city council elections, Pageler was the voice of a City Light radio advertisement and the Director of the Seattle Ethics Elections Commission concluded that the ad may have inadvertently violated election laws. Pageler reimbursed the city $2,000 for the ad, and the Ethics and Elections Commission dismissed the complaint.