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Representative Dave Quall and Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen have just brought the gavels down to close out the 2010 legislative session, which began on January 11th and must end today in accordance with the Washington State Constitution. The Legislature is not, however, finished with the 2010 supplemental budget, which means they'll have to go into overtime. Consequently, before the House and Sen...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Thu 9:26 p.m. - 2 clicks 
State Senator Dale Brandland, a Republican who represents the 42nd District, has just announced his decision to retire from the Senate. In a speech on the Senate floor, Brandland - who was first elected in 2002 - disclosed that he has decided not to run again. The 42nd Legislative District encompasses most of Whatcom County. It includes northern Bellingham plus all of Whatcom's other incorpora...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Wed 5:20 p.m. - 7 clicks
Suzan DelBene , the Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative in Washington's 8th Congressional District, is one of the party's top prospects in the 2010 midterms, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced this morning . Since 2006, the DCCC has recognized and promoted what it thinks are its top prospects each cycle by including them in its "Red to Blue" program, which provides...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Wed 5:01 p.m. - 7 clicks
Celebrating Our Roots Congressman Jim McDermott's 16th Annual Potato Festival Sunday, March 21, 2010 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p,m. Town Hall (Downstairs) 8th and Seneca, Seattle "Irish Baked Potato Bar and Delicious Desserts" by Cameron Catering. For more information ( https://www.upwardstech.net/mcdermott/tickets ) or contact Anna Rising at 425-828-8969, or anna.rising@verizon....
Forty-Third District Democrats - Tue 9:48 a.m. - 6 clicks
(photo: Glenn Beck, right, in the only uniform he's ever worn, Puyallup Fair, 1973. credit, Skagit Valley Herald) Declaring it an “anti-troop movie” by Hollywood elites, Glenn Beck (KTTH m-f, 6-9a said on his radio show Monday he won’t be......
BlatherWatch - Tue 12:48 a.m. - 8 clicks
Over the weekend, hundreds (perhaps thousands) of voters throughout Washington's 3rd Congressional District received automated "robo-calls" about health care reform. The calls are being generated by the NRCC in Washington D.C. and they're calling it the "code red" project. According to the National Journal , they're targeting candidates - including me - who "have yet to take a positio...
DailyKos (Washington) - Mon 4:07 p.m. - 9 clicks
43rd District Democrats Tuesday, March 16, 2010 General Membership Meeting University Heights Community Center 5031 University Way NE, Seattle 98105 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. AGENDA 6:30 p.m. Doors Open 7:00 p.m. Call to Order Approval of minutes from last meeting - Scott Forbes ( democrats@scottforbes.net ) Volunteer Recognition - Hillary Madsen ( chair_43@hotmail.com...
Forty-Third District Democrats - Sun 3:06 p.m. - 9 clicks
17 grand worth of lap dances! Hell yeah! That’s how we, or at least the Seattle PD and your FBI roll. Sex! Strippers! Cops! Four years of lap dances, a few hand-jobs and you’ve got just another puritanical battle of crew cut vs. mammal intercourse. Scary!! And what a horrible waste of a Motley Crue and or [...] ...
The Vigilant Lens - Sat 9:47 p.m. - 12 clicks
The Republican myth making nonsense that there is something wrong with Obama and the Democrats in the US Senate using the reconciliation process to resolve the health care impasse is finally being challenged. And the Republican mirage is being shown as just that. As EJ Dionne Jr points out in his column yesterday in the Seattle Times entitled " The GOP's astonishing hypocrisy on health care ...
MajorityRulesBlog - Sat 2:23 p.m. - 10 clicks
Washington state has released its first annual report on the death with dignity” law that took effect a year ago tomorrow. What it says reflects closely what the law’s advocates have argued. As the report defines it, the law (passed by initiative) “allows terminally ill adults seeking to end their lives in a humane and dignified [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Mar 4 - 7 clicks
It didn't, but I thought I'd give myself the same treatment I gave Olyforums here. I haven't been blogging recently and I never explained why, so if anyone was worried, I apologize. But, I'm going to assume that most of the people who read this blog either also follow my twitter feed or are friends on facebook, so they know I'm not totally gone. But, I have been blogging, but in another capaci...
Olympia Time - Mar 4 - 6 clicks
We love the El Nino winters here in the NW. All the time the rest of the country has been under siege with blizzards and it's snowing in Florida, up here in Washington and Oregon it's been a fabulous year so far. I'm speaking of the weather, of course. (But the most recent unemployment numbers actually went down here for the first time in a long time, so there is room for a very small and g...
DailyKos (Washington) - Mar 4 - 2 clicks
43rd Legislative District Caucus 1 to 3 p.m. – Sunday, March 14, 2010 University Heights Community Center 5031 University Way NE, Seattle, WA ( map ) Join us to elect delegates to the Washington State Democratic Convention on June 25-26 in Vancouver, Wash. Who knows, you might even want to run yourself. It’s easy to participate. Just be a registered voter and show up for a cordial discus...
Forty-Third District Democrats - Mar 3 - 5 clicks
Contrary to what conservatives would have us believe, reckless government spending has nothing to do with the current economic crisis. In fact, both the Great Depression and the Great Recession were caused by the reckless actions of private financial institutions. Likewise, it wasn’t unregulated free enterprise that got the United States of America out of the worst economic calamity in history, ...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Mar 2 - 7 clicks
There is a small agency in Washington state government called the State Executive Ethics Board, with a budget of a little under a half-million dollars a year, a drop in the ocean of the Washington state budget. In light of the state’s financial stress, state Representative Jeannie Darneille, D-Tacoma, has proposed eliminating it. (She was [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Mar 1 - 4 clicks
It's been a long, pot-holed road to get to here, but with today's release of the House Democrats' revenue pla n , the Washington legislature now has the tools it needs to create a supplemental state budget that will sustain core services. The Senate released their plan last week. It focuses on three large revenue sources while the House proposal is an accumulation of five smaller measures. Bo...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Mar 1 - 3 clicks
This weekend, the leadership of Emily's List is in our region to help raise money for Suzan DelBene (the Democratic nominee for Congress in Washington's 8th Congressional District) following their earlier endorsement of her candidacy . At an event hosted at Soundview Strategies today, Suzan explained why she is running for Congress. She said the most important reason she's challenging Reichert i...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Mar 1 - 7 clicks
Possibly not what they expected when they asked the question. Washington’s 3rd congressional district, the one with an open seat this year (currently held by Democrat Brian Baird) is the one anchored by Vancouver to the south and Olympia to the north, but considered politically marginal and maybe bearing a slight Republican tilt. There is at [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Feb 28 - 5 clicks
The minutes of September 26, 2009 were approved. The agenda was approved. Bylaws revision The bylaws were presented and the discussion led by Western Vice-Chair Gary Sell. There is a suggested change to a requirement that people be required to become dues paying members 20 days before casting any votes rather than 30 days because February has only 28 [...]...
Washington State Progressive Caucus - Feb 28 - 5 clicks
Today is a great day for democracy in Washington State. This afternoon, Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law ESSB 6130, which breaks off the unconstitutional, undemocratic shackles imposed by Tim Eyman's Initiative 960 back in 2007. Those shackles prevented majority rule from prevailing on any bills seeking to raise revenue, in direct violation of Article II, Section 22 of the Washington State...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Feb 24 - 4 clicks
The filing deadline for congressional candidate in the open-seat Washington 3rd is still quite a way off, but the field is starting to shrink and the front-runners are looking quite a bit clearer. Even if you have to throw aside some fundraising data to reach the conclusion. Among Republicans, the picture is beginning to look notably [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Feb 23 - 4 clicks
A new poll released by the Progressive Candidate Change Committee, Democracy for America, and Credo Action finds that support for real healthcare reform remains strong in Washington State, the organizations announced earlier today. The poll of six hundred likely 2010 voters throughout the Evergreen State was conducted by Research 2000. The results were as follows : QUESTION: What would make you...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Feb 22 - 3 clicks
ESSB 1630, the bill that temporarily neutralizes Initiative 960 through the end of the 2011 legislative session, has just cleared its final legislative hurdle. By a vote of twenty six to twenty one (two Republican senators were excused) the Senate has concurred with the bill as passed by the House. ESSB 1630 now heads to the desk of Governor Chris Gregoire, who is expected to sign it into law...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Feb 22 - 2 clicks
We have wonderful news to share tonight! This afternoon, the King County Council unanimously appointed Northwest Progressive Institute Fellow Mike Finkle to fill a newly created District Court position in the county's East Division. Mike, a twenty year veteran of the Seattle City Attorney's office, will work out of Redmond's Municipal Campus, which includes the East Division's Redmond Courthouse...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Feb 22 - 2 clicks
Maria Cantwell You can’t say that no one in Washington is trying to loose the hounds on the financial high-chargers who, with their endlessly creative financing efforts, crashed the country’s economy. Not many visible people in Washington have delved deeply into this murk. But at least a couple of Northwest senators have: Jeff Merkley of Oregon, [...]...
Ridenbaugh Press (Washington) - Feb 22 - 3 clicks
With less than three weeks left in the legislative session, many state lawmakers returned home this weekend in order to hear from their constituents and in return, got an earful. Disgruntled voters filled the Kirkland City Council chambers to capacity and spilled out the doors at the 45th legislative district’s town hall meeting on Saturday. Senator Eric Oemig and Representatives Larry Springer a...
Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog - Feb 22 - 5 clicks
