| Excerpt: | Miloscia's sudden entrance into this race is an odd development. If his heart was set on running for office again, why didn't he declare six months ago and start laying the groundwork? Only two months remain until ballots show up in voters' mailboxes. That isn't much time in which to build a statewide campaign. |
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| Published at: | 4:10 PM on Wednesday, May 18th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Exec |
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Category Archives: Elections
Filing Week surprise: Fundamentalist Mark Miloscia jumps into Secretary of State contest
Is this the end for Kurt Schrader, dubbed “Oregon’s Joe Manchin?” Challenger Jamie McLeod-Skinner has a sizable early lead
| Excerpt: | The possibility that the least progressive Democratic member of the Pacific Northwest's congressional delegation could be ousted from office after years of alienating voters and activists back home is looking very real. |
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| Published at: | 10:55 PM on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | OR-05 |
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Progressive legislator Andrea Salinas looks set to be the Democratic nominee for Congress in Oregon’s new 6th District
| Excerpt: | Democratic voters in Oregon's brand new 6th Congressional District have chosen State Representative Andrea Salinas to carry the party's standard in the coming general election, early election results indicate. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 PM on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | OR-06 |
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Oregon’s Democratic electorate picks Tina Kotek as the party’s nominee for Governor
| Excerpt: | Oregon's former Democratic Speaker of the House Tina Kotek has secured the party's 2022 gubernatorial nomination and will attempt to keep the state's top position in Democratic hands this autumn, initial returns show. |
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| Published at: | 9:05 PM on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | OR-Gov |
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Today is Primary Election Day 2022 in Oregon and Idaho: Be sure to vote!
| Excerpt: | Readers, if you live in the Beaver State or the Gem State, it’s very, very important you exercise your civic duty today and vote. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | ID-Gov, OR-05, OR-06, OR-Gov, Reminder to Vote |
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WA Filing Week 2022: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Monday evening
| Excerpt: | Who had filed for public office in Washington State as of the close of filing on Monday, May 17th, 2022? This post covers notable filings and provides links to the complete list for each county. |
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| Published at: | 5:00 PM on Monday, May 16th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Series & Special Reports |
| Tags: | Filing Week Report, WA-01, WA-02, WA-03, WA-04, WA-06, WA-07, WA-09, WA-Counties, WA-Exec, WA-Sen |
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Tim Eyman again begs for some benefactors to step forth and revive his initiative business
| Excerpt: | Standing outside the Secretary of State's Elections Annex under a covered walkway, Eyman staged a repeat performance of the event he orchestrated last autumn, in which he made a similar public plea for rich right wing funders to pony up megabucks to allow him to run a new initiative to get rid of Washington State's new capital gains tax on the wealthy |
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| Published at: | 5:04 PM on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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Reagan Dunn votes against reproductive rights as Democrats vow to make abortion care an issue in the 2022 midterms
| Excerpt: | If you missed the movie “Twister,” watch what Dunn, who is challenging Representative Kim Schrier, says and does on reproductive rights. His mother, the late United States Representative Jennifer Dunn, who retired in 2004, was a Reagan Republican, but pro-choice. |
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| Published at: | 12:45 PM on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Civil Liberties, Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Privacy, Reproductive Rights, WA-08 |
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Campaign to nix capital gains tax gets more money but hasn’t launched a signature drive
| Excerpt: | Despite having spent more than a quarter of a million dollars already, the Initiative 1929 campaign is still not yet in the field. It also hasn't taken the password protection off of the campaign website that a vendor was paid several thousand dollars to create. |
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| Published at: | 12:54 PM on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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Reagan Dunn and Jason Rantz are wrong: Moving county elections to even years won’t hurt public discourse at the local level
| Excerpt: | Read NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve's rebuttal to right wing arguments against the organization's proposal to switch elections for twelve King County positions to even-numbered years. |
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| Published at: | 8:22 PM on Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Even-Year Elections |
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Let’s amend the King County Charter to elect all county offices in even-numbered years
| Excerpt: | If adopted by the Council and ratified by voters this November, the amendment would eventually result in future elections for Executive, Assessor, Elections Director, and County Council being held in midterm and presidential cycles, rather than in odd-numbered years, as has been the case for many years. |
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| Published at: | 7:17 PM on Thursday, May 5th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Fair Elections, WA-Ballot |
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Initiative to cut taxes for the rich gets a ballot title: Judge picks AGO’s alternative version
| Excerpt: | I-1929, sponsored by Republican operative J. Vander Stoep, seeks to completely repeal Engrossed Second Substitute Bill 5096, approved in 2021 by the Washington State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee. |
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| Published at: | 5:53 PM on Thursday, April 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | Permanent Defense, WA-Ballot |
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Emily Alvarado, Leah Griffin vie to succeed Eileen Cody for open seat in deep blue 34th
| Excerpt: | The 34th LD, which includes West Seattle, Vashon Island, White Center, and parts of Burien, is one of the most reliably Democratic districts in the state, so Republicans are unlikely to even bother fielding a candidate. The general election is expected to be a runoff between two Democrats. |
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| Published at: | 12:31 PM on Saturday, April 16th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Medhya Goel |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Leg |
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Insurgent faction mostly strikes out with voters in Idaho’s 2022 Republican primary