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Daily Archives: April 18th, 2012

Posted inElections, Events

President Obama returning to the Evergreen State for more fundraising events

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew VilleneuveApril 18th, 2012April 18th, 2012

Last week, the White House let it be known that Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma would be once again pay­ing a vis­it to the Real Wash­ing­ton a few days into May. Details of the planned trip were not released at the time, but all of the Pres­i­den­t’s recent trips here have been almost exclu­sive­ly for fundrais­ing, so […]

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