“Are you bored with this yet?” Susan Hutchison asked me as she headed to the front of the room for yesterday’s King County Bar Association lunchtime debate. “All the repetition,” she added.As the debates stretch on ad nauseum with more than a month to go until the primary, it’s easy to glaze over. Last night, a collection of social justice advocacy groups sponsored a three-hour-plus candidate forum featuring nearly everyone running for Mayor, King County Executive, City Attorney and City Council. Mike McGinn at one point appeared to be nodding off. Maybe he was just really carefully reading his notes, but then the moderator, going through audience queries said: “This is a question for Mike McGinn.” He stared at her for a long beat before jumping up. “I’m ready!” he declared. The audience laughed.A little girl sitting next to me, maybe about four or so, turned to her mom. “Can we go now?” she asked. Sorry kiddo, not until Nov. 3. The problem is, just about the time you decide you’ve heard it all and there’s no more reason to stay tuned, little nuggets slip out. Here are a few from last night:1. Sally Bagshaw wants to legalize pot. “We ought to decriminalize marijuana,” she announced. “Right now!” If Bagshaw doesn’t win Jan Drago’s soon-to-be former council seat (though it looks likely she will) pot legalization advocates need to hire this woman on immediately. She wears embroidered button-ups, has a responsible haircut, cred with the Prosecutor’s Office where she used to work, and a tendency to shower everyone around her with grandmotherly compliments. The audience in the Rainier Valley Cultural Center was clearly pro-David Bloom, but Bagshaw got sincere applause and cheers of her own.2. Don’t worry, anyone who doesn’t want a new jail built in their neighborhood: not one single person on the stage last night said they support building a new one. Toss that in with the fact that King County extended the jail contract with the cities anyway and it’s pretty much a dead issue for the purposes of this election.3. With the hero’s welcome he got last night, maybe Peter Holmes should have run for mayor. 4. Despite the interminable length of last night’s forum, future sponsors could take a page from whoever created the questions in the multi-sponsored match-up last night. Candidates responded to questions on subjects from racial disparity in the justice system to checks on immigration status. Then the moderators took their answers and forced them to get a little specific. This strategy forced David Ginsberg to clarify his strong response to a question about holding abusive officers accountable by saying: “The best I can do is try to influence whoever is our next mayor.”5. It was almost nine by the time we got to the County Executive part of the evening. Hutchison never answered the questionnaire and didn’t put in an appearance (which is probably just as well; her name got a round of boos from this left-leaning audience.) Maybe it was the fact that nearly everyone left, maybe it was not having to be up against someone used to looking good on television. Maybe he was just too tired to care. But Constantine grabbed the mic and playfully shouted to the exiting crowd “hey, hey, I’m talkin’ up here!” He was rewarded with a good chuckle, though most people still didn’t stay. Then he ribbed the guy sitting in the front row for not being a senior. More laughter. When asked to describe the differences between him and his opponent, Constantine quipped “We haven’t really heard any positions from my opponent. We do know that she is in favor of us eating meatloaf rather than steak.” Again with the laughing. He needs to figure out a way to be more like this in front of the Bar Association.