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Rodney Tom is wrong: Split government isn’t serving Washington State well at all

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Yes­ter­day, man­age­ment at The Seat­tle Times tac­it­ly admit­ted they could­n’t bring them­selves to endorse the cam­paign of Repub­li­can Jiny­oung Lee Englund, who is run­ning to take over from appointee Dino Rossi in the 45th Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict. In the appar­ent place of an endorse­ment of Jiny­oung, the Times today pub­lished an op-ed by ex-Sen­a­­tor Rod­ney Tom […]

Posted inBreaking News, Healthcare, Policy Topics

Trumpcuts defeated again as John McCain casts decisive vote against “skinny repeal”

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Mil­lions of Amer­i­cans have once again won a reprieve from los­ing their health­care cov­er­age after the nar­row fail­ure of Mitch McConnel­l’s lat­est scheme to evis­cer­ate the Patient Pro­tec­tion Act in the Unit­ed States Sen­ate. By a vote of fifty-one to forty-nine, the Sen­ate reject­ed McConnel­l’s Amend­ment No. 667, the lat­est iter­a­tion of Trump­cuts. Amend­ment No. […]

Posted inBreaking News, Litigation

Tim Eyman countersues State of Washington, claims he’s not guilty and is being persecuted

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Dis­graced ini­tia­tive pro­mot­er Tim Eyman has at last filed an answer to the State of Wash­ing­ton’s law­suit against him and his asso­ciates — and it’s a doozy. In a ten page plead­ing filed today with Thurston Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court, Eyman assert­ed through his lawyer Mark Lamb that he has­n’t done any­thing wrong and is being persecuted […]

Posted inBreaking News, Open Government, Policy Topics

You’re fired: Donald Trump has ousted FBI Director James Comey, effective immediately

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

James Comey is out as the Direc­tor of the Fed­er­al Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion after being sacked by Don­ald Trump in a sur­prise dis­missal, the regime said today in a bomb­shell announce­ment that instant­ly became top news. In a let­ter addressed to Comey, Trump wrote: “I have received the attached let­ters from the Attor­ney Gen­er­al and the […]

Posted inBreaking News, Media & Culture

Fox Noise fires Bill O’Reilly; bigmouth’s downfall was activist-led advertiser exodus

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Bill O’Reil­ly, host of the high­est rat­ed pro­gram at the Fox Noise Chan­nel, has been forced out of the net­work after exec­u­tives at its par­ent com­pa­ny 21st Cen­tu­ry Fox con­clud­ed that his show could no longer be effec­tive­ly mon­e­tized due to a mass exo­dus of adver­tis­ers cat­alyzed by deter­mined activists. Mul­ti­ple women who for­mer­ly worked […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections, Litigation, Open Government, Policy Topics

State of Washington sues Tim Eyman over illegal kickbacks, misuse of campaign funds

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Bring­ing to an end a mul­ti­year inves­ti­ga­tion into Tim Eyman’s ille­gal cam­paign finance prac­tices, Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son announced today that the State of Wash­ing­ton has filed a law­suit in Thurston Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court seek­ing $2.1 mil­lion in penal­ties against him, his asso­ciate William Agazarm of Cit­i­zen Solu­tions, and Cit­i­zen Solu­tions itself, as well as […]

Posted inBreaking News, Open Government, Policy Topics, Public Service

Jeff Sessions must resign — immediately

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

When Jeff Ses­sions was being scru­ti­nized by the Unit­ed States Sen­ate for the vital­ly impor­tant posi­tion of Unit­ed States Attor­ney Gen­er­al, he was asked by Sen­a­tor Al Franken what he would do if “any­one affil­i­at­ed with the Trump cam­paign” was found to have com­mu­ni­cat­ed with offi­cials of the Russ­ian Fed­er­a­tion. Ses­sions answered: “I have been called a […]

Posted inBreaking News, Civil Liberties, Litigation, Policy Topics

Trump loses again: 9th Circuit refuses to reinstate discriminatory travel ban

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Don­ald Trump’s uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and dis­crim­i­na­to­ry trav­el ban will remain unen­force­able for the time being, the Ninth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals ruled today. In a unan­i­mous deci­sion, a three judge pan­el ruled that Trump’s regime “has not shown a like­li­hood of suc­cess on the mer­its of its appeal, nor has it shown that fail­ure to enter a […]

Posted inBreaking News, Litigation, Policy Topics

State of Washington wins restraining order against Trump regime’s immigration ban

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Hand­ing Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son a pre­lim­i­nary vic­to­ry in his efforts to stop neo­fas­cist Don­ald Trump from stomp­ing all over the Unit­ed States Con­sti­tu­tion and fed­er­al law, U.S. Fed­er­al Dis­trict Court Judge Judge James L. Robart today grant­ed the State of Wash­ing­ton’s request for a tem­po­rary restrain­ing order block­ing imple­men­ta­tion of key pro­vi­sions of Trump’s […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections, Party Politics, Public Service

Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) said to be Trump’s Interior Secretary pick

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

If news reports are to be believed, Don­ald Trump is on the verge of nam­ing Repub­li­can Con­gress­woman Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers as his choice for Sec­re­tary of the Inte­ri­or. McMor­ris Rodgers has rep­re­sent­ed East­ern Wash­ing­ton in Con­gress for near­ly ten years, hav­ing been elect­ed and reelect­ed five times. Ms. McMor­ris Rodgers, the high­­est-rank­ing woman in the House […]

Posted inBreaking News, Open Government

BIG NEWS: Attorney General Ferguson files *three* new complaints against Tim Eyman!

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Respond­ing to a set of cit­i­zen’s action notices sent ear­li­er this year by Wash­ing­to­ni­ans For Eth­i­cal Gov­ern­ment and Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling, Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son’s office announced this morn­ing it has filed three new com­plaints in Thurston Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court against Tim Eyman and his asso­ciates for seri­ous vio­la­tions of Wash­ing­ton’s pub­lic dis­clo­sure laws. “Washington’s campaign […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections, Party Politics

It’s official: Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

The tick­et is com­plete: Hillary Clin­ton named Sen­a­tor Tim Kaine of Vir­ginia to be her run­ning mate Fri­day, select­ing a bat­tle­ground state politi­cian with work­ing-class roots and a flu­en­cy in Span­ish, traits that she believes can bol­ster her chances to defeat Don­ald J. Trump in Novem­ber. Mrs. Clinton’s choice, which she announced via text message […]