While the price they paid is steep, American women have delivered a comeuppance to Mitch McConnell. The Senate Republican leader sowed the wind in February of 2016. He is reaping the whirlwind in 2022.
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Posted inPublic Service
Thank you, Speaker Pelosi
Our team at NPI thanks Speaker Pelosi for her tremendous contributions to our country. As she said, quoting Scripture, for everything, there is a season. The time is right to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership and celebrate an incredible run that secured the passage of legislation American families needed.
Posted inPublic Service
Patty Murray set to become the first woman elected U.S. Senate President Pro Tempore
“It’s not lost on me the significance of what it would mean to be the first woman to serve in this role,” said Patty Murray. “I have a great deal of respect for the Senate and the good I am able to accomplish for families in Washington state as a voice and vote for them.”
Posted inPolicy Topics
Respect for Marriage Act wins Senate cloture vote: Marriage equality will soon be codified!
On a bipartisan vote of 62–37, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on the Respect for Marriage Act (H.R. 8404), which would send a powerful message to the Roberts/Alito Court that the executive and legislative branches of the United States federal government do not want the Obergefell decision overturned, and finally codify marriage equality into federal law.
Posted inElections
Lessons from the biggest House upset in the country: The victory of Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington’s 3rd District
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has put a different hue on the 3rd District, scoring the most surprising Democratic upset of any U.S. House race in the country.
Posted inElections
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wins: Democrats flip WA-03 back to blue, defeat Joe Kent
“I am humbled and honored by the vote of confidence the people of Southwest Washington have put in me and my campaign,” said Representative-elect Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in a statement. “Right up to the end, far-away pundits and prognosticators said this race couldn’t be won.”
Posted inElections
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez remains ahead of Joe Kent as late ballots dwindle in number
After a fourth consecutive day of counting, Democratic congressional hopeful Marie Gluesenkamp Perez remains ahead of ultra MAGA Republican rival Joe Kent in the race for U.S. Representative in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.
Posted inElections
Joe Kent cuts into Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s lead, but may be running out of runway
On the third day of counting, Republican Joe Kent reduced Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s lead from 10,273 votes to 5,882 votes. But the rural counties that have backed him most enthusiastically are now mostly out of ballots.
Posted inElections
Leesa Manion wins King County Prosecuting Attorney contest, defeating Jim Ferrell
On November 10th, Leesa Manion declared victory in the 2022 race for King County Prosecuting Attorney, accepting the congratulations of her vanquished opponent, Federal Way Mayor Jim Ferrell, and pledging to get to work on behalf of the people of the state’s largest jurisdiction, home to more than two million people.
Posted inElections
Kim Schrier wins: Associated Press, Seattle Times project Democratic victory in WA-08
Larkin is the third Republican candidate to be vanquished by Schrier in what is the state’s only “tossup” congressional district. Schrier previously defeated perennial candidate Dino Rossi in 2018 and then beat Jesse Jensen in 2020.
Posted inElections
Julie Anderson concedes 2022 Secretary of State contest to incumbent Steve Hobbs
Anderson’s decision to run against a Democratic incumbent for a partisan office as an unaffiliated candidate ironically left her electorally reliant on fickle, ultra MAGA Republican voters who want vote at home abolished, circulate conspiracy theories, and believe that the 2020 presidential election was not fairly conducted.
Posted inElections
Republican Tiffany Smiley concedes defeat to Democratic U.S. Senator Patty Murray
“This evening I reached out to Senator Murray and her campaign to congratulate her on her victory after a hard-fought race,” said Smiley. “I cannot thank my family, my team and the wonderful people of Washington state enough for their support over the past 18 months.”
Posted inElections
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s lead over Joe Kent holds in second day of counting
Democratic congressional hopeful Marie Gluesenkamp Perez remained ahead of ultra MAGA Republican rival Joe Kent on November 9th as thousands of ballots were tabulated across the five counties in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District.
Posted inElections
Most of the Republican legislative candidates endorsed by The Seattle Times are losing
Due to having mostly endorsed Democrats and progressive positions on ballot measures this year, the Times’ overall win-loss column looks really good. But the board was clearly hoping that voters across suburban and exurban Central Puget Sound would make the area’s legislative representation more Republican than it has been since 2017–2018. That simply isn’t happening.