Monthly Archives: January 2016

Posted inLive Coverage

Live analysis: President Obama delivers final State of the Union Address to Congress

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to our live cov­er­age of Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma’s final State of the Union address. The speech is being broad­cast by all major broad­cast and cable news net­works, and you can also watch it at WhiteHouse.gov. Pres­i­dent Oba­ma is cur­rent­ly mak­ing his way to the U.S. Capi­tol via motor­cade, and the speech […]

Posted inEconomic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics

How would WA Republicans like it if *these* bills needed a two-thirds vote to pass?

by Andrew Villeneuve

Any­one who has spent time attempt­ing to under­stand the pol­i­tics of the Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty knows that Repub­li­cans spend an awful lot of time lis­ten­ing to (and tak­ing their cues from) mil­i­tant, right wing ini­tia­tive prof­i­teer Tim Eyman, who has become obsessed late­ly with gut­ting Wash­ing­ton’s cher­ished tra­di­tion of major­i­ty rule and replac­ing it […]

Posted inParty Politics, Public Service

King County Council appoints Reuven Carlyle to State Senate, Noel Frame to State House

by Andrew Villeneuve

This after­noon, in its first meet­ing of 2016, the Met­ro­pol­i­tan King Coun­ty Coun­cil act­ed to fill two vacan­cies in the Wash­ing­ton State Leg­is­la­ture, both result­ing from Jeanne Kohl-Welles’ move from the Sen­ate to the King Coun­ty Coun­cil. By a vote of nine to zero, the Coun­cil first appoint­ed State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Reuven Car­lyle (D‑36th Dis­trict: Ballard, […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

U.S. Representative Jim McDermott announces his retirement from Congress

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wash­ing­ton’s cur­rent longest-serv­ing mem­ber of Con­gress has decid­ed to retire after near­ly three decades of ser­vice to the U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Con­gress­man Jim McDer­mott, sev­en­­ty-nine, announced at a press con­fer­ence today in Seat­tle that he won’t seek reelec­tion in 2016, set­ting the stage for what will undoubt­ed­ly be a crowd­ed Top Two elec­tion to […]