Category: Elections

Posted inCivil Liberties, Economic Security, Elections, Policy Topics

What does Rob McKenna have against family planning?

by Patrick Stickney

Yes­ter­day, guber­na­to­r­i­al can­di­date Rob McKen­na post­ed on Cross­cut a vari­ety of state­ments on how to impair our state Med­ic­aid sys­tem, and chose to omit any sort of con­tent on how con­se­quences of those changes would affect our state. While blast­ing Med­ic­aid expansion(which, by the way, is in con­trast to how 67% of Amer­i­cans feel), Mr. McKenna […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

BP and ConocoPhillips revealed as the big money behind Tim Eyman’s I‑1185

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

The wheels and gears of Tim Eyman’s ini­tia­tive fac­to­ry are once again being lubri­cat­ed with piles of mon­ey from greedy multi­na­tion­al oil com­pa­nies, new­ly updat­ed Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion records show. Min­utes ago, Tim Eyman’s trea­sur­er uploaded cam­paign finance reports for the lat­est incar­na­tion of Eyman’s “Vot­ers Want More Choic­es” com­mit­tee for the month of April, […]

Posted inElections

François Hollande elected President of France; Nicolas Sarkozy ousted after one term

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

It’s offi­cial: the République française will soon have a new leader. The peo­ple of France oust­ed incum­bent pres­i­dent Nico­las Sarkozy today in a runoff elec­tion, deny­ing the Union pour un Mou­ve­ment Pop­u­laire (Union for a Pop­u­lar Move­ment) leader a sec­ond term in favor of Social­ist François Hol­lande, who has called for more invest­ment in France’s pub­lic ser­vices and fewer […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

Rick Santorum ends presidential campaign

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

A week after fail­ing to defeat Mitt Rom­ney in Wis­con­sin’s Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry — por­trayed by the tra­di­tion­al media as a make-it or break-it moment for his can­di­da­cy — Rick San­to­rum announced at a press con­fer­ence in Get­tys­burg, Penn­syl­va­nia, that he was end­ing his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. He did not endorse Mitt Rom­ney, who now appears to […]

Posted inElections

Rick Santorum projected to win in Alabama, holding on to narrow lead in Mississippi

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Rick San­to­rum is on a roll. Less than one hun­dred hours after deci­sive­ly win­ning the Kansas Repub­li­can cau­cus­es, he appears to have swept tonight’s con­tests in the Deep South, despite hav­ing to share the con­ser­v­a­tive vote with Newt Gin­grich: Rick San­to­rum scored a pair of pri­ma­ry vic­to­ries in Alaba­ma and Mis­sis­sip­pi, accord­ing to net­work projections, […]

Posted inCivil Liberties, Elections, Policy Topics

Referendum 74 gets a new ballot title; right wing to launch anti-equality signature drive

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

A cou­ple hours ago, fol­low­ing a lengthy hear­ing, Thurston Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court Judge Thomas McPhee ordered that Ref­er­en­dum 74, the right wing’s attempt to force a pub­lic vote on Wash­ing­ton’s new mar­riage equal­i­ty law, be giv­en a new bal­lot title, after con­sid­er­ing chal­lenges to the orig­i­nal bal­lot title writ­ten by the Attor­ney Gen­er­al’s office by […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Elections

NPI’s Gael Tarleton announces that she will be a candidate for state House in the 36th LD

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

I have some excit­ing news to share this after­noon: After hav­ing spent sev­er­al days con­tem­plat­ing a cam­paign for state House with fam­i­ly and friends, our Pres­i­dent, Gael Tar­leton, has decid­ed to run for the posi­tion being vacat­ed by Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Mary Lou Dick­er­son, who recent­ly announced her retire­ment from the Leg­is­la­ture after many years of service […]

Posted inElections, Party Politics

Super Tuesday: Who’s winning where

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Tonight — as read­ers of the NPI Advo­cate are no doubt aware — is Super Tues­day, tra­di­tion­al­ly the biggest (though not nec­es­sar­i­ly the most piv­otal) night of the pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nat­ing sea­son, when more del­e­gates are at stake than at any oth­er point lead­ing up to the nation­al par­ty con­ven­tions at the end of sum­mer. It’s […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

Mitt Romney winning Washington Republican precinct caucuses by comfortable margin

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Chalk up anoth­er vic­to­ry for Mitt Rom­ney. With more than six­ty per­cent of the votes count­ed, the for­mer Mass­a­chu­setts gov­er­nor is hand­i­ly win­ning Wash­ing­ton’s Repub­li­can precinct cau­cus­es, best­ing Rick San­to­rum and his two oth­er remain­ing oth­er rivals by a com­fort­able mar­gin. Here are the cur­rent results: Wash­ing­ton Repub­li­can precinct cau­cus­es Mitt Rom­ney: 36.7% (11,294 votes) […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections, Public Service

Norm Dicks says he isn’t running for reelection, will retire from U.S. House

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Norm Dicks, the dean of Wash­ing­ton’s con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion, has just issued a sur­prise announce­ment through his office explain­ing that he has come to the deci­sion not to seek reelec­tion to the U.S. House this year. I am announc­ing today my inten­tion to com­plete my ser­vice in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives at the end of the […]

Posted inBreaking News, Elections

Olympia Snowe to retire; Republican hopes of taking over the U.S. Senate take a hit

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Big news out of the Pine Tree State this after­noon: Olympia Snowe, one of Maine’s two incum­bent Repub­li­can sen­a­tors, has announced that she has decid­ed not to seek reelec­tion in 2012, cit­ing a desire to be free of the par­ti­san ran­cor that per­vades Capi­tol Hill these days. Her deci­sion to retire could have a profound […]

Posted inBreaking News, Economic Security, Elections, Live Coverage, Policy Topics

President Obama arrives in Everett for first 2012 visit to the real Washington

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good morn­ing, every­one, and greet­ings from the Boe­ing plant in Everett, where Patrick, Eve, and I are wait­ing to be trans­port­ed to Paine Field and the fac­to­ry where the 787 Dream­lin­er is assem­bled on press bus­es. We’re here in Everett to cov­er the final leg of Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s mid-Feb­ru­ary tour of the Left Coast, which […]

Posted inElections, Open Government, Policy Topics

State House passes NPI-supported bill to make ballot advertising more transparent

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good news out of the Capi­tol Cam­pus this after­noon: Wash­ing­ton’s House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives has just approved a bill spon­sored by Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Andy Bil­lig that makes it eas­i­er for vot­ers to find out who’s try­ing to influ­ence them to vote in favor of (or in oppo­si­tion to) bal­lot mea­sures. I tes­ti­fied in favor of this bill […]