Month: August 2006

In addition to the conservative attempts to sandbag the state Supreme Court, there seems to be a similar effort to unseat a quality judge at the Appeal Court level in Southwest Washington. Judge Joel Penoyar is facing off with Brent Boger, who had been given a plus rating by the Faith and Freedom Network and…

First there was the ad covering the dust-up over the entire skateboard through the window thing. Now the new ad. Find it here.

From email: …please be advised that State Party Chair Dwight Pelz is convening a press conference at 10 AM tomorrow morning at our campaign office (506 SW Columbia) to announce the Washington State Democrats’ endorsement of Kyle Taylor Lucas in the 35th LD Senate primary race against incumbent Tim Sheldon. And, our county party is…

I wrote about this earlier here. But, now I have some questions about the headline. What does Gov. Gregoire have to do with the restatement of a Legislative Ethics Boards decision from 2004? What does any of this have to do with the Klan?

They… won’t… let… him … post… Legislative press releases on his campaign website! Oh my freaking God, what a travesty!! Turns out Rep. Toby Nixon wants to cut and past some press releases written for him by his legislative staff onto his campaign website. Also turns out this is against the rules (for Democrats, Republicans…

Ealier I wrote a bit about the Ranked Choice amendment in Pierce County. Kelly Haughton of the Charter Review Board is writing a Ranked Choice blog. And, it isn’t half bad.

Could the Democratic majority in the legislature and the Democratic governor get the Grange to put their guns down and craft a deal on elections in Washington? The end result being an Instant Runoff Voting system? For more information on how IRV works, go here. Assume two things happen by December: 1. The Democratic Party…

A year or so ago when I wrote about meetup.com starting to charge for their services, I complained that the DNC needed to come out with their own out of the box solution. Since then DFA launched theirs, Townhall did so too and some private sector replacements have sprung up. Yesterday, though, the DNC launched…

When Sen. Tim Sheldon sent $10K to the Republican Senate Campaign Committee in 2002, $7K of it came before the election when the Republicans took back control of the Senate. While $10K may not be a lot in the grand scheme of things, it may have actually swung the election, it was so freakin’ close….

It would have been thrown out anyway, because I’m sure the Republicans would have taken it this far too. But, that isn’t my real reason. In 2004, political participation spiked. But, not in a way that benefited organized politics or parties. More people tried to influence how others voted: A lot more people put a…