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« Reply #950 on: May 06, 2009, 10:05:10 PM »

To be fair, most of the fundie community leaders in Washington consider this to be a completely lost cause.  They're getting mutilated in the polls and the news spin is awful.  At this point there's a growing cloud-of-doom feeling among the Christian right here.  It may be that a massive initiative failure will just expedite the march toward gay marriage.
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« Reply #951 on: May 10, 2009, 10:02:49 PM »

To be fair, most of the fundie community leaders in Washington consider this to be a completely lost cause.  They're getting mutilated in the polls and the news spin is awful.  At this point there's a growing cloud-of-doom feeling among the Christian right here.  It may be that a massive initiative failure will just expedite the march toward gay marriage.

I tend to agree. If the public overwhemingly votes to keep strengthened civil unions then it might send a message to the legislature that its ok to have outright gay marraige or it might even be possible to get it passed as a ballot measure. Personally I think Washington is ready and willing.
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« Reply #952 on: May 18, 2009, 04:17:31 PM »
« Edited: May 18, 2009, 04:21:18 PM by Holmes »

Gregoire wants to see a bill on her desk. No specifics, just wants to see a bill on her desk.

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« Reply #953 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 #954 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 #955 on: May 22, 2009, 03:16:31 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 #956 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 #957 on: May 26, 2009, 11:09:03 PM »

^eh, Chris Vance was a King County Councilman when he ran against Smith (in 2000 I think), or at least had been one recently IIRC. Still only got 35% of the vote, though! haha.
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« Reply #958 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 #959 on: June 02, 2009, 10:21:35 PM »

Mike Fagan is running for Spokane City Council. Curious...
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« Reply #960 on: June 04, 2009, 12:02:00 PM »

Krist Novoselic is running for Wahkiakum County Clerk. "Prefers Grange Party"
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« Reply #961 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 #962 on: June 04, 2009, 11:31:30 PM »

Krist Novoselic is running for Wahkiakum County Clerk. "Prefers Grange Party"

I wish he had challenged Owen. Oh well, perhaps he (correctly) figures he needs to start small for anyone to take him seriously.
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« Reply #963 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 #964 on: June 07, 2009, 10:44:34 PM »

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=cd8c0ab8-ab65-4767-a525-bb41fac2daf8

Nickels approval stands at 31-56.  Individual issues:

Law enforcement: 55-55
City services: 34-57
City parks: 53-36

Quality of life 57-28 getting worse
Traffic 79-13 getting worse
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« Reply #965 on: June 08, 2009, 06:16:30 PM »
« Edited: June 08, 2009, 06:20:38 PM by Alcon »

...oh, and:

25% Mayor Greg Nickels
17% City Councilwoman Jan Drago
9% Ex-Sonic James Donaldson
7% Sierra Club Guy Michael McGinn
6% T-Mobile Guy Joe Mallahan
3% Tunnel-Hater Elizabeth Campbell
2% Unreachable and undocumented SWP member Mary Juanita Martin
1% "Executive specialist"/Mary-Juanita-Martin-loser-to Norman Sigler
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« Reply #966 on: June 08, 2009, 06:50:29 PM »

McGinn is behind Donaldson? Ouch
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« Reply #967 on: June 09, 2009, 02:56:48 AM »
« Edited: June 09, 2009, 03:02:28 AM by Alcon »

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?
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« Reply #968 on: June 09, 2009, 05:00:24 AM »


I like our primary system, but calling Washington centrist just seems wrong. People need to remember that there used to be the saying: "the 47 states and the soviet of Washington"
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« Reply #969 on: June 09, 2009, 10:00:16 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 #970 on: June 11, 2009, 12:27:24 AM »
« Edited: June 11, 2009, 12:37:15 AM by Alcon »

Even worse of a candidate than I expected.

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« Reply #971 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 #972 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 #973 on: June 12, 2009, 06:13:08 PM »

What do you guys think of this Washington with 10 districts map?



I know the Vancouver-Yakima district would be annoying because likely it would be republican (though Baird may be able to hold it, after all it doesn't include much of conservative Lewis county any more). The 5th district would be more competitive, while the 8th probably more democratic, I am not sure about the rest.
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« Reply #974 on: June 12, 2009, 06:15:45 PM »

It's alright I suppose. I wish we had 2010 numbers to play with!

Here's a 9 district map I made yesterday:

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