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« Reply #325 on: April 29, 2009, 03:12:39 PM »
Quote from: bgwah on April 29, 2009, 01:19:48 PM
Bleh, can't one of them run for Congress...

The upside for this race, at least for Jarrett and Hunter, is that they don't have to give up their seat in the Legislature to do it. Congress isn't so much the case (although Jarrett could do it in 2010 without risking his seat...)
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« Reply #326 on: May 01, 2009, 12:24:02 AM »

Umm...
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« Reply #327 on: May 05, 2009, 02:57:08 AM »
I'd be shocked if it were to happen. If he wants a woman there are many better options.
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« Reply #328 on: May 05, 2009, 04:55:01 PM »
He's also an idiot.
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« Reply #329 on: May 06, 2009, 03:03:54 AM »
Egads. Hopefully everyone figures out who the Democrats are... damn non-partisan races.
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« Reply #330 on: May 18, 2009, 08:25:58 PM »
I've heard her give a similar answer several times before. It's clear to me she'll sign the bill but there's no point in risking anything politically by saying she'd sign it before she does it.

Frank Chopp is probably too terrified to bring it up for a vote until at least 2011 though - and that's only if the 2010 elections go well for his caucus.
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« Reply #331 on: May 22, 2009, 02:48:26 PM »
The first patient to utilize the Death with Dignity law passed away last night - a 66-year-old Sequim woman who had stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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« Reply #332 on: May 26, 2009, 03:41:04 PM »
Pierce County Councilmember Dick Muri (R-Steilacoom) has announced that he intends to run against Rep. Adam Smith. Earlier State Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Roy) announced that he was running against Smith as well.

Both will get crushed, but what's with two not-complete-joke candidates running against Smith? Smith hasn't faced anything but gadfly candidates since he beat Tate in 1996 IIRC.
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« Reply #333 on: June 01, 2009, 12:31:09 PM »
It's filing week! Around half of all those fun city council, school board, park district, water district, fire district, etc., etc. seats are up for election this year, and the random nobodies who run our municipal governments have until Friday to indulge in their quad-yearly civic masturbation file for office.

Some counties also do their elections on the off-years, most notably King County (now featuring Super-Fair-and-Awesome-Non-Partisan™ ballot labels!) There's a special election in Pierce County for County Auditor that will probably be the last IRV election in Washington State for quite some time (voters in November have the opportunity to, and almost certainly will, ditch IRV for county offices).

Special elections also occurring for State House seats in the 9th, 15th and 16th LD's.
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« Reply #334 on: June 02, 2009, 10:21:35 PM »
Mike Fagan is running for Spokane City Council. Curious...
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« Reply #335 on: June 04, 2009, 12:02:00 PM »
Krist Novoselic is running for Wahkiakum County Clerk. "Prefers Grange Party"
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« Reply #336 on: June 04, 2009, 05:36:00 PM »
A man named "David C Roberts (Dave)" is running in the 16th LD special election. "Prefers ReganIndependent Party" (he's only allowed 16 letters and ReaganIndependent is 17).
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« Reply #337 on: June 05, 2009, 04:02:21 PM »
http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13788607&fsrc=rss

I think I might be sick...
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« Reply #338 on: June 08, 2009, 06:50:29 PM »
McGinn is behind Donaldson? Ouch
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« Reply #339 on: June 09, 2009, 10:00:16 AM »
Quote from: Alcon on June 09, 2009, 02:56:48 AM
I like how the Democratic candidate for Dist 16 Pos 2 lists his mailing address as Idaho.  Lewiston is only, what, 300 miles from his "legal residence" in White Salmon?

Hahahaha, I hadn't even noticed that. Excellent.

District 15, btw
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« Reply #340 on: June 11, 2009, 12:40:37 AM »
Has anyone ever seen Hutchison and Pam Roach in the same place at the same time? I have a theory.
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« Reply #341 on: June 12, 2009, 01:43:33 PM »
King County Executive: Cash raised/Cash on Hand

Larry Phillips: $346K/$209K
Dow Constantine: $238K/$166K
Susan Hutchison: $124K/$95K
Ross Hunter: $117K/$112K
Fred Jarrett: $50K/$8K (Ouch)
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« Reply #342 on: June 24, 2009, 08:32:45 PM »
Eh, they'll rally behind whomever comes in second. It's the highest profile race in the state this year (except maybe Seattle Mayor) so it's not like Hutchison is going to be able to sneak in under the radar.
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« Reply #343 on: June 26, 2009, 12:14:52 AM »
Quote from: Ogre Mage on June 26, 2009, 12:13:12 AM
My prediction is that Hutchison will win the primary with flying colors and then she will lose badly in the general election.  Name recognition is a powerful advantage, particularly in a multi-candidate field.  Having multiple candidates in the race gives her more cover to duck specific questions about her record, which is what she has been doing.  She has only shown up to one or two candidate forums and appears to be running scared.

In the general election, there won't be anywhere to hide.

As an aside, the KC Executive race is illustrative of why I think the decision to make county races "nonpartisan" was a sham. 

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All it does is reduce information given to voters; it does nothing to reduce partisanship.
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« Reply #344 on: July 11, 2009, 09:08:14 PM »
Quote from: CultureKing on July 11, 2009, 09:05:57 PM
So... when is the King county executive primary?

August 18th. Ballots are mailed July 29th.
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« Reply #345 on: July 15, 2009, 02:21:15 PM »
Washington hasn't elected a Democrat Secretary of State since 1960. Weird...
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« Reply #346 on: July 15, 2009, 02:31:55 PM »
Quote from: bgwah on July 15, 2009, 02:25:36 PM
Are you looking at those pages I made on the Wiki?

No, just Sam Reed's website. Apparently the guy before Ralph Munro runs the Discovery Institute now Sad

Quote from: bgwah on July 15, 2009, 02:25:36 PM
Well, we haven't elected a Republican State Auditor since 1928... so we win.

Cheesy
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« Reply #347 on: July 20, 2009, 06:27:27 PM »
Quote from: Alcon on July 20, 2009, 05:38:01 PM
R-71 petitioners say they'll submit signatures on Saturday.  Won't say how many they have now.  They've heavily been hitting up church congregations and -- Meeker totally called it -- Wal-Mart.

Also, for anyone in the Tacoma/University Place area, MISSED OPPORTUNITY.  And he was wearing camo, too Sad

Don't worry, he's coming back: http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/pol/1280199122.html
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« Reply #348 on: July 24, 2009, 03:01:17 PM »
The more I've thought about it though I think a crushing defeat for them could help spur the legislature into actually passing marriage equality...

I guess I'm still hoping it won't get on the ballot though.
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« Reply #349 on: July 25, 2009, 11:29:38 PM »
Brian Sonntag endorsed Susan Hutchison. Ewwww
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