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In a blow to House Republicans who had made him one of their favorite targets of scorn and derision, U.S. Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) died today at age 77 of complications from gallbladder surgery.Although he d earned wide renown amongst D.C. insiders fo...

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The Cannabis Defense Coalition has now received the second and third bundles of documents from the Department of Corrections in response to their public disclosure request. Following the first set of documents the CDC received, I posted about how At...

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Well, that s what the AP is reporting anyhow.(Gov. Christine) Gregoire s campaign committee sent out an e-mail Wednesday afternoon endorsing Democrat Denny Heck for Congress in southwest Washington s 3rd District.The e-mail encourages donations to He...

topics: campaign, committee, congress, democrat, elected

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With little time I don t write much anymore so here s a dump on some of the latest&I ll start local.Larry Haler&I don t know what has happened with our local Washington State Legislator Larry Haler (R-8th). Once upon a time we had a reasonable, per...

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A Republican was elected to Teddy Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts Tuesday night. The result - unthinkable just two weeks ago - has the Democrats scrambling on everything from health care reform to November's midterm elections....

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Bob Ferguson was elected Tuesday to the King County Council chairman's position, a job he'd held on an interim basis since the November election....

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In 2008 a group of political reformers * placed a successful measure on the November ballot to make King County government non-partisan. Fourteen months later that reform has failed its first three tests filling two vacancies (Sims and Constan...

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It's a good time to be Aaron Reardon. In December, Reardon was elected chair of the Sound Transit Board, a position last held by Greg Nickels, and yesterday he presided over his very first... Continue reading Reardon Watch: His Ve...

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Republican Scott Brown is surging in the polls for next Tuesday's Massachusetts special Senate race to finish the term of the late Ted Kennedy. If elected, now a realistic possibility, Brown would be the final vote needed to save the......

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What s heartbreaking about this Eli Sanders post concerning WA-03 is not that he wrote it, because everyone is entitled to his opinion. What s heartbreaking is how utterly clueless he appears to be about democracy in general and SW Washington in part...

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