Editor's Note: Sammamish Patch Welcomes New Blogger Brad Toft

Sammamish Patch welcomes Brad Toft, a longtime Eastside businessman and currently the owner of a retail mortgage firm, Clearwater Mortgage Bankers. 

For the past three years Brad has authored Clearwater Mortgage Banker’s blog, the WeeklyWire and he has been a contributing writer to Issues and Answers, a publication of the Washington Banker’s Association. He spent four years on the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity of East King County and is currently a board member of the Snoqualmie Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Brad lives in Snoqualmie with his family where he has been a resident for nearly 10 years.  He is a candidate for the 5th District Senate seat in the 2012 election.

Brad plans to blog about the economy and real estate finance for Sammamish Patch. You can read his first post here.

Do you want to blog for Patch?

If you're a chatterbox, if you're a know-it-all, if you're passionate about Sammamish - we’re looking for you.

If you would like to share your knowledge about your community and you and know how to put a sentence together, we have a place for you here.

If you're passionate about transportation, or politics, or religion, you have a place here. If you are a teen who wants to write about your school or so-called life, a senior citizen who remembers how Sammamish "used to be," a hardware store owner with an axe to sell (or grind), a single mom or dad, a shopaholic, we'd love to hear from you. If you're on the softball team trying to beat the softball team already blogging for Sammamish Patch, you are welcome here.

As political season continues, we would especially welcome people with political views to apply to be bloggers. If you already hold office, or you are a prospective office holder, we would also be happy to chat with you about blogging on Sammamish Patch.

If you've never had a blog, we'll show you how to do it. If you already have a blog, you can cross-post on Sammamish Patch and drive viewers to your own site. In short, we want to get the community talking and listening and we want you to be a part of the conversation.

If you don't have a blog, drop me a line and let's chat. I have a few ideas for blogs that I'd like to see on Sammamish Patch, and I bet you have things that you'd like to share with your neighbors.

We will not own the the content. It’s yours. Forever. Feel free to post it anywhere else you like. It’s your blog, after all.

If you are interested, contact me at sammamishpatch@gmail.com or give me a call at 425-747-4705.