NPI's Cascadia Advocate

Offering commentary and analysis from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, The Cascadia Advocate is the Northwest Progressive Institute's uplifting perspective on world, national, and local politics.

Monthly Archives: February 2023

Senator Javier Valdez, NPI propose legislation to let WA cities switch elections to even years

Excerpt: Imagine being able to as much as double the turnout for important local offices -- and diversify it by an even greater magnitude -- with just one structural change. That's what even-year elections for local governments can do for us.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections
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Republicans fail in their attempt to intervene in signature verification legal challenge

Excerpt: The Republicans’ philosophy on litigation is never to spend one dollar when two (or more) will do. Judge Shaffer may have saved the party some money, needed until recently (when he announced his candidacy) to pay Trump’s legal bills.
Written by:Joel Connelly
Categories:Elections, Litigation
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VICTORY! Washington State Senate votes to remove death penalty and Eyman’s two-thirds nonsense from our state’s body of laws

Excerpt: Senate Bill 5087, prime sponsored by Senator Jamie Pedersen (D-43rd District: Seattle) and requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, would formally scrub a long list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington.
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics
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