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 even get along with members of his (Republican) party. Numbers today and yesterday show the same margin, with McClendon and Krogh behind by about 7%. Riley Sweeney from The Political Junkie quoted Matt, who said that the results were “within our margin of victory. When you figure in the conservative swing of the low turnout, this is a success.”
The intriguing part about the 42nd is that both Matt and Natalie are behind by the same margin against their opponents, showing that voters who vote for one candidate will vote for the other, suggesting perhaps a closer coordination is needed between the two campaigns.
Rep. Kris Lytton ran an uncontested race, so no news there. Both Senator Kevin Ranker and Rep. Jeff Morris have won handily, and from all looks these two distinguished officials will win the general election and continue to serve their constituents well in Olympia.
In Spokane, Amy Biviano came behind her opponent, Matt Shea, the incumbent Republican who has been cited for pulling an illegal gun on another driver during a road incident. This is the only notable race in the 4th, as the two other Republicans in the 4th legislative district ran uncontested campaigns. In the 6th, Rep. Andy Billig, running for retiring Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown’s seat, continues to trump Spokane City Council Member Nancy McLaughlin with almost 58 percent of the vote, and Marcus Riccelli leads the field in the race to replace Rep. Billig. Riccelli was running against two other Democrats and two Republicans in the primary, and will face off against Tim Benn in the general election.
With ground to be gained in the 42nd and the 4th, it seems that, with strong campaigns, conservatives in the area can be kicked out of the legislature. Spokane is not the conservative stronghold many believe it is, and with more voters turning out in the general election, the news for our state could be reservedly optimistic.
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Thank you for the link! You say that Buys and Overstreet haven’t built up a record but in the two years they have been in office, Buys has managed to acquire a meager 12% rating from the Washington State Labor Council, one of the lowest scores in the House. One of the only person with a lower score? Jason Overstreet. What else has Overstreet done? Tried to pass a bill that would allow you to pay your power bill with gold coins.
http://blogs.bellinghamherald.com/politics/politics/rep-jason-overstreet-introduces-bill-to-replace-paper-money-with-gold/
So while they haven’t been in office long, they have managed to waste quite a bit of time and taxpayer dollars on not creating jobs.
Riley, please think a little deeper before you ridicule what Buys and Overstreet are doing–if the WA state Labor board is giving them that rating and they are trying to do things like that, then it definitely means that the WA state Labor Board’s low rating is a good sign!! That bill that Overstreet was a proponent of, WOULD create jobs—you just have to think longer about it. If we were allowed to pay our power bills in gold/silver, we would not have to pay them with FRN’s, which are constantly deflating as the FED constantly prints more of them. Every dollar that the FED prints increases the money supply, shrinks the purchasing power or the FRN’s in your pocket, and steals wealth from you invisibly!! That’s why being able to use gold/silver would be great–their value cannot be stolen, in fact it increases when the money supply increases because they are worth more of the cheaper FRN’s. So, people pay with gold, they do not lose the deflation value of their money, they therefore save more money, have more money, and have money to invest in things such as creating jobs, spending money which creates jobs, and the like. Think deeper please! Our country needs it.