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Daily Archives: August 8th, 2012

Election Update: Whatcom, Spokane races

Excerpt: With a lit­tle more than 9,000 votes to count, it seems that What­com Coun­ty races have been decided.  The real inter­est­ing race in What­com Coun­ty is inside the 42nd dis­trict. Matt Krogh is chal­leng­ing fresh­man Vin­cent Buys and Natal­ie McClen­don is chal­leng­ing Jason Over­street. Buys doesn’t have much of a record and Rep. Over­street doesn’t […]
Published at:11:20 PM on Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Written by:Patrick Stickney
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Greg Nickels, Craig Pridemore bow out of races for Secretary of State and Auditor

Excerpt: This morn­ing, a num­ber of Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates for statewide and fed­er­al office woke up to the real­i­ty that they are not run­ning close enough behind the top two-vote get­ters in their respec­tive races to hold out hope of being able to go on to the Novem­ber gen­er­al elec­tion (which is in actu­al­i­ty just a runoff, […]
Published at:7:23 PM on Wednesday, August 8th, 2012
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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