aggregated from: Sound Politics

Seattle Times: State Senate passes tax package, remains at odds with House on sales tax The Times homepage currently has the more optimistic headline Lawmakers still can't agree on sales tax ......

topics: senate, state-senate

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Senate candidate Chris Widener has had his campaign site up for some time. Now he has added a negative site, NOtPatty.com. (That first O looks familiar, for some reason.) (I plan to put up more links for candidates, as......

topics: campaign, candidate, senate

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Kurt Beckett becomes Chief of Staff at Port of Seattle, Patricia Akiyama becomes the port's External Affairs Director. Both used to be top aides to Washington senators....

aggregated from: Daily Weekly

Shall we call the November Senate election now and save the time, money and tedium? No other state congressional incumbent has more official challengers than Sen. Patty Murray, but no one h......

topics: election, senate

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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

aggregated from: Sound Politics

Our Washington Legislature cut spending to the bone, but was reluctantly forced to raise taxes. Right? FOOLED YOU. State workers are sacrificing during this downturn in the economy. Right? WRONG We have all heard that our Senate and House have......

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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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Democrats want anything that can be legitimately called historic heath care reform so badly they can taste it. It is just a problem of definition of what constitutes reform. Right now it is the Senate version of Obamacare but solid......

topics: democrats, senate

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The bill to expand Washington s medical marijuana law has passed the House after some late amendments were made to require tamper-proof authorizations (as a way to reduce fraud). After Senate re-approval, the bill will land on Governor Gregoire s de...

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Today is the last day of the state legislative session. Sort of. The House and Senate haven't been able to agree on the specifics for resolving the state's $2.8 billion (or so) budget defic......