Excerpt: | It looks like our efforts to educate voters about the cost and consequences of Tim Eyman’s initiative on initiative (I‑517) are starting to pay off. Hurrah! The last two surveys to gauge support for Initiative 517 both show support for the measure dropping, and the most recent of the two — just released today — […] |
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Published at: | 2:25 PM on Tuesday, October 29th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Elections |
Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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Monthly Archives: October 2013
Poll Watch: Tim Eyman’s Initiative 517 is sinking like a rock, new surveys show
Marco Rubio is wrong: Setting up a website where people can buy something is not simple
Excerpt: | This morning, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida appeared on Fox Noise Channel’s Sunday morning show to talk politics with Chris Wallace. One of the topics the two men discussed was the rollout of the Patient Protection Act’s online exchanges, which unfortunately hasn’t gone too well. (Many people have tried to use the exchanges, only to […] |
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Published at: | 10:18 PM on Sunday, October 20th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Healthcare, Policy Topics |
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House Speaker Tom Foley: 1929–2013
Excerpt: | This morning, we lost a legend in Washington and U.S. politics. Tom Foley, who served the Evergreen State with distinction in the House of Representatives for several decades, died of complications from multiple strokes in the early hours of the day today, his family has announced. He was eighty-four. Foley, the last Democrat to represent […] |
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Published at: | 12:30 PM on Friday, October 18th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Party Politics, Public Service |
Tags: | Obituaries |
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U.S. House signs off on deal to reopen the federal government and pay America’s bills
Excerpt: | An eleventh-hour agreement negotiated by Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell to reopen the federal government and pay America’s bills was accepted by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night after top House Republicans admitted that their attempts to extract a ransom in exchange for simply fulfilling their basic responsibilities as representatives had failed miserably. With […] |
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Published at: | 6:46 PM on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Breaking News, Economic Security, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to reopen federal government and pay America’s bills
Excerpt: | At long last, we finally have some decent news out of the Other Washington. By a vote of eighty-one to eighteen, the United States Senate has voted to approve legislation that reopens the federal government through mid-January and allows the U.S. Department of the Treasury to pay America’s bills through mid-February. More than half of […] |
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Published at: | 6:32 PM on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Breaking News, Economic Security, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, Strong Commonwealth |
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An open letter to the Pacific Northwest members of the House Republican caucus
Excerpt: | Editor’s note: The following letter was transmitted by facsimile to the offices of Dave Reichert, Greg Walden, and Mike Simpson this morning. A slightly different letter was sent to Raul Labrador, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Doc Hastings, who are known for being hardliners. All of the aforementioned individuals represent (or purport to represent) portions of […] |
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Published at: | 11:05 AM on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility |
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Live from Whatcom: Senate Republican Transportation Listening Tour
Excerpt: | It’s been a foggy day here in Bellingham, but the low visibility has not kept people from coming to the Bellingham leg of the Senate Republican’s listening tour, because this place is packed. As we covered earlier this month, Bellingham was not originally a place scheduled to be part of the tour, but the size […] |
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Published at: | 6:29 PM on Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 |
Written by: | Patrick Stickney |
Categories: | Unscheduled Programming |
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Tim Eyman gets an earful in Seattle after stepping to the mic to recite his talking points
Excerpt: | Initiative profiteer Tim Eyman got a taste of what it’s like to be interrupted and heckled tonight when he showed up in Seattle to speak at the second to last stop on Rodney Tom and Curtis King’s transportation autumn “listening tour”, which has been traveling around the state since mid-September. Eyman, who was also at […] |
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Published at: | 10:08 PM on Monday, October 14th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
Tags: | Permanent Defense, Strong Commonwealth, Transportation |
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LIVE from Seattle: Transportation “listening tour” comes to the Emerald City
Excerpt: | Good evening from Seattle. I’m here at the First Presbyterian Church on First Hill, where a dozen members of the state House and Senate are holding a public meeting to talk about Washington State’s transportation needs. This is the latest stop on what’s been called a “listening tour” instigated by Rodney Tom and Senate Republicans […] |
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Published at: | 6:43 PM on Monday, October 14th, 2013 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Categories: | Economic Security, Policy Topics, Public Planning |
Tags: | Strong Commonwealth, Transportation |
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U.S. House passes “Citibill” to partially roll back the Dodd-Frank Reform Act