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Businessman Chris Widener, one of the Republicans challenging Sen. Patty Murray, has a new, aggressive Web site up called NotPatty.com ....

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Yet again the Seattle Times editorial board has strongly urged Congress and/or the President to drop health care reform, focus on other issues, and start over from scratch. And yet again the Times has attempted to cover their motives with the followi...

topics: congress, democrats, health-care, political, republican

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For the first time since I learned about the King County Conservation District elections a few years back, the King County Conservation Voters endorsed candidate has finally come won one of these bizarre, nearly secret elections. So congratulations t...

topics: candidate, elected, election, primary, republicans

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Republicans weren't happy that majority Democrats in the state Legislature opted for a special session this week to try to come up with a new tax package to balance an operating budget that's $2.8 billion out of whack....

topics: democrats, republicans

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Today's blogs think it's naive to believe any candidate doesn't have skeletons in their closet.- Goldy at HorsesAss says that state Republicans holding their breath in anticipation of tw......

topics: candidate, republicans, senator

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Dino Rossi's shady dealings with disgraced developer Michael Mastro could loom large over any future political campaign.State Republicans talk tough about taking out U.S. Sen. Patty Murray in what s shaping up to be a tough year for incumbents, but t...

topics: campaign, elected, nomination, political, republicans

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According to the Seattle Times editorial board, Democrats are bad people:THE priority of the majority Democrats in Olympia has not been economic recovery. If it were, the Legislature would not be leaning on the taxpayer for nine-tenths of a billion d...

topics: conservative, democrats, government, politics, republican

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Eleven Republican state senators filed a bill yesterday, SB 6883, that would bar legislators from collecting a per diem during the coming special session, which I suppose might be taken as a serious attempt to protect the interests of taxpayers, if n...

topics: committee, democrats, elected, political, republican

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In a probable preview of interrupted dinners and kiddie bedtimes this year, the good folks at the NRCC have unleashed a last-ditch effort to stop health reform with that most hated of intrusive tactics, the robo-call, including down here in WA-03. Th...

topics: campaign, candidate, committee, congress, congressman

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A debate that many Democrats and Republicans in Olympia hoped to avoid began in earnest Thursday as lawmakers discussed asking voters to approve an income tax for the richest Washingtonians. Republicans fear that such an incremental step could eventu...

topics: democrats, political, republicans