| Excerpt: | “To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there is no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress,” said Biden. “The people sent us a clear message. Fighting for the sake of fighting, power for the sake of power, conflict for the sake of conflict, gets us nowhere." |
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| Published at: | 11:32 PM on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Media & Culture |
| Tags: | State of the Union |
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Monthly Archives: February 2023
President Biden challenges Congress to help him “finish the job” of getting America back on track in upbeat State of the Union address
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. |
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| Published at: | 9:26 AM on Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Even-Year Elections, Fair 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. |
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| Published at: | 8:55 AM on Monday, February 6th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Tags: | Fair Elections |
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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(D-43rd District: Seattle) and requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson, would formally scrub a long list of statutes no longer in effect from the Revised Code of Washington. |
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| Published at: | 1:05 PM on Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Civil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
| Tags: | Criminal Justice, Fiscal Responsibility |
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VICTORY! Washington State Senate again passes bill to abolish Tim Eyman’s push polls