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In case you missed it, check out Mike Seely's post over on the Daily Weekly about Geoffrey Mac McElroy, the White Center saloon owner who is running for the state house....

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This week, both of the progressive marijuana bills introduced in the State House this session were voted down by the Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Committee. This wasn t a terribly surprising outcome, as the Committee continues to be led ...

topics: committee, democrats, health-care, state-house

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The state House on Friday unamiously passed a bill designed to make it easier for military and overseas voters to cas electronic ballots....

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He's been called Washington's shadow governor. Some of the left-leaning members of his own party have even referred to him as a dictator for the way he controls the state House of Representatives....

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State lawmakers on Wednesday killed bills that would've legalized or decriminalized marijuana in Washington state....

topics: committee, state-house

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This is shaping up to be a pretty historic week for drug law reformers in Washington state. On Wednesday, the State House will be holding a hearing on not just a marijuana decriminalization bill, but also a full legalization bill that uses the state...

topics: government, mayor, political, state-house, tacoma

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Brad Shannon has an article focusing on Denny Heck, the former legislator and founder of TVW. Heck is giving serious consideration to running for the seat to be vacated by Rep. Brian Baird, D- Wash. (WA-03), at the end of the term. I am doing a bun...

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- As the health care bill gets sliced and diced into a much more corporate-friendly and ineffective skeleton of its previous self in the Senate, I m struck by how the arguments for still passing it sound like the arguments that were made (by myself a...

topics: attorney-general, congress, democrats, health-care, obama

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Goldy broke the news earlier this week that 6 co-sponsors in the State House are introducing a bill that will legalize marijuana for adults over the age of 21. The bill will also utilize the existing mechanisms in place for regulating wine and hard ...

topics: elected, government, state-house

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He's a former Republican elected official, the son of a baptist minister, a member of the NRA, and a (recently divorced) family values conservative with three darling kids. He started his own political consulting firm before he left office ( Common S...

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