aggregated from: HorsesAss.Org

Back in 2006, then-U.S. Attorney for Western Washington John McKay appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his attempts to arrest and extradite Canadian marijuana seed seller Marc Emery. McKay argued that Emery was a drug kingpin and a threat to Americans....

topics: congress, government, representative

aggregated from: West Sound Politics

(Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal)A trial lawyer's familiar attempt to bring down Republican Senate candidate Dino Rossi. By Kimberley A. StrasselDesperate political environments tend to inspire desperate polit...

topics: activist, bellevue, campaign, candidate, christine-gregoire

aggregated from: Slog

The suspense nearly broke Twitter this morning. At least, the Washington State Department of Transportation was trying to whip up some anticipation on Twitter:Huge announcement to share today. Very, very excited about this one and we think you are go...

aggregated from: Majority Rules Blog

This issue should have been decided long ago by the Washington State Supreme Court. Any attempt to limit the Washington State Legislature from enacting revenue bills or repealing non-performing tax exemptions by requiring a supermajority vote is unco...

topics: elected, government, representative, senator, supreme-court

aggregated from: Slog

I don't think anyone familiar with Seattle politics will be surprised to know that this statement comes from 34th District Dems board member Ivan Weiss, in response to my report on sabotage and division within the organization after its primary endor...

topics: candidate, political, politics, primary, representative

aggregated from: Slog

Here we go with today's results for races in King County (about half of all the ballots expected in the primary). Results for state races will be tricking in over the hour from lots of counties, and well update with those next. State Representative L...

topics: primary, representative, republican, senator

aggregated from: Strange Bedfellows

Seventy-four years ago Saturday, Seattle's U.S. House representative jumped headfirst to his death from his fifth floor office in the Arctic Building on Third Avenue and Cherry Street....

aggregated from: Majority Rules Blog

Below is the list of 2010 Political Endorsements made by the Washington State Cascade Chapter of the Sierra ClubNational Position Name All WA districts U.S. Senator Patty Murray WA - C1 U.S. Representative Jay Inslee WA - C2 U.S. Representative Rick...

topics: political, representative, senator

aggregated from: HorsesAss.Org

Dino Rossi is holding another one of his last minute, barely publicized, underground meet-ups this weekend, and if any of my HA regulars would like to politely attend, maybe make a small donation to Dr. Coday to assuage suspicions, and surreptitiou...

topics: campaign, candidate, conservative, democrat, elected

aggregated from: Slog

City Council Member Jean Godden has a blog post over on Crosscut today that equates everyone raising questions about the deep-bore tunnel financing to the birthers who says Obama isn't really American. Like the 'birthers' who refuse to give up on th...

topics: attorney-general, budget, campaign, city-council, mayor