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Bill allowing public funding of local office campaigns passes the WA house today

HB 1551 allowing local cities, towns, counties and districts to enact public financing of campaigns passed the Washington State Legislature today.
Here is the role call:Yeas: 56 Nays: 38 Absent: 0 Excused: 4
Voting Yea: Representatives Appleton, Barlow, Chase, Clibborn, Cody, Conway, Darneille, Dickerson, Dunshee, Eddy, Ericks, Flannigan, Fromhold, Goodman, [...]

KXLY: One hundred thousand dollars?

I need everyone to please watch this video from tonight’s KXLY 5 o’clock report (you might need to click the “play” button twice):

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About 40% of the way through, there’s the following (my transcription):
“Investigators claim Cody Castagna then blackmailed Curtis threatening to go public with their tryst, unless the [...]

Richard Curtis no longer in denial?

State Representative Richard Curtis (R)(18th LD) has been in the news quite a bit the last day or so.
Aneurin, over at the blog Politics is a Blood Sport, is all over this story.

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Why candidate selection is broken

For those who were unclear as to how to get to the link provided earlier regarding VaNessa L. Duplessie’s 2005 Life-Pac responses, here’s the full images taken from the Internet’s Wayback Machine:

Disclaimer: The original image length and width were modified in order to fit the blog formatting width limitations of this site, nothing else has [...]

Lifepac endorsed candidate running as a Democrat

There’s generally a vetting process for when candidates decide to run for office, with the local party doing the heavy lifting with a prospective candidates positions. After some simple Googling of announced 18th Legislative District State Representative candidate Vanessa Duplessie on the Democratic side, we learn the the following:
8. When is taking the life [...]

Event cancelled - Clarkblog.org to Sponsor Vancouver City Council Debate

[ August 15, 2007; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] www.clarkblog.org has launched a grassroots effort to sponsor a debate among all of the candidates in the upcoming Vancouver City Council races this August. Three incumbents have filed for reelection; Councilmen Tim Leavitt, Larry Smith and Dan Tonkovich. To date, Tonkovich is the only incumbent who has not agreed to the debate, while [...]

Zarelli gets in bed with the extremists

The convening of Convergence NW, the get together organized by 18th LD State Senator Joe Zarelli, of right wing Israeli politicians and their Clark County analog, just so happens to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, when Israel conquered Jerusalem, and:
“I was alone for a moment, lost in thought, when Rabbi [...]

DFA Nightschool: Building Progressive Coalitions

[ March 13, 2007; 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. ] I don’t about the rest of you, but I’m getting tired of moping around the house, ticked off at certain members of Congress for not doing something about the war, the Patriot Act, and the rising tide of the have-mores vs. the have-nots. Time to get organized!

Join Democracy for America for their upcoming training [...]

Update on clean election legislation

Chad Shue updates us on the efforts in Olympia passing clean election legislation. Please call or email your WA State Representatives and Senators (especially Pridemore and Benton) and tell them you support clean elections. For more info, go here.

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