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State Rep. Deb Wallace, D-Vancouver, has dropped out of the race to replace US House Rep. Brian Baird, D-WA-03. That leaves two other major Democratic candidates, state Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver, and businessman and TVW founder Denny Heck.The...

topics: candidate, democrat, democrats, election, health-care

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State Rep. Matt Shea is clearly busy down in Olympia and unable to tell us why he thinks Obama is Hitler if not merely Stalin. Our unanswered e-mail and phone messages - one of them handed... Continue reading State Rep. Matt Shea: I...

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State Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina, said Monday that a plan put forward by Seattle leaders to change the preferred option for replacing the 520 bridge is too late. ...

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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...

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I m not sure what s more frustrating: Democrats inability to use the power voters handed them, or their refusal to?Take for example state Rep. Jamie Pedersen, who as chair of the House Committee on Judiciary has the power to kill any bill coming bef...

topics: committee, democrats, political, politician, republicans

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Looks like I'm not the only one who would like to see longer yellows at intersections (all intersections, not just those with stop-light cameras). Acccording to this report in the Seattle Times, State Rep. Chris Hurst, D-Enumclaw, has sponsored a......

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State Rep. Matt Shea (R-Greenacres)In case you missed last night s post, House Republicans have introduced a butt-load of paranoid, crazy-ass, teabagger bills, in a paranoid, crazy-ass attempt to appease the paranoid, crazy-ass teabaggers threatening...

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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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I know a lot of Democrats who are pretty pissed off at King County Councilman Larry Phillips for crossing the aisle and joining Republicans in appointing Jan Drago to fill Dow Constantine s seat, but I m not one of them. Yeah, I generally hail from ...

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Folks around these parts sure do love the illusion of nonpartisanship, but as demonstrated by yesterday s Mercer Island mayoral brouhaha, it is in practice exactly that.The putatively nonpartisan Mercer Island City Council met yesterday to select a n...

topics: campaign, city-council, democrat, democrats, mayor