Category: Live Coverage

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Tim Eyman’s wealthy benefactors funding Rodney Tom’s attacks on Justice Wiggins

by Andrew Villeneuve

New­ly filed reports with the Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion show that sev­er­al of Tim Eyman’s top wealthy bene­fac­tors are work­ing with Med­i­na’s Rod­ney Tom to fund $350,000 worth of attack ads against Supreme Court Jus­tice Char­lie Wig­gins, who is one of three incum­bents seek­ing reelec­tion to the state’s high­est court this year. Tom’s polit­i­cal action com­mit­tee, disingenuously […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the final presidential debate of 2016 from the great Pacific Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the final pres­i­den­tial debate of 2016. NPI staff will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate between Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton and Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump as it pro­gress­es. The debate, spon­sored by the Com­mis­sion on Pres­i­den­tial Debates, is being broad­cast on all major networks […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the second presidential debate of 2016 from the great Pacific Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the sec­ond pres­i­den­tial debate of 2016. NPI staff and board will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate between Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton and Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump as it pro­gress­es. The debate, spon­sored by the Com­mis­sion on Pres­i­den­tial Debates, is being broad­cast on all […]

Posted inElections, Events, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the first presidential debate of 2016 from the great Pacific Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the first pres­i­den­tial debate of 2016. NPI staff will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate between Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton and Repub­li­can nom­i­nee Don­ald Trump as it pro­gress­es. The debate, spon­sored by the Com­mis­sion on Pres­i­den­tial Debates, is being broad­cast on all major networks […]

Posted inLive Coverage

State collects $20,000 in attorney’s fees and court costs from Tim Eyman and his PACs

by Andrew Villeneuve

Scan­­dal-plagued ini­tia­tive pro­mot­er Tim Eyman and the polit­i­cal com­mit­tees he con­trols have agreed to reim­burse Wash­ing­ton State tax­pay­ers to recoup the costs incurred to com­pel his coop­er­a­tion into its inves­ti­ga­tion into his con­ceal­ment of cam­paign funds, Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son’s office has announced. “I refused to allow Tim Eyman and Cit­i­zen Solu­tions to impede our […]

Posted inCivil Liberties, Legislative Advocacy, Live Coverage, Policy Topics

HAPPENING NOW: U.S. House Democrats stage sit-in on House floor over gun violence

by Andrew Villeneuve

Fed up with inac­tion in Con­gress on gun safe­ty reform, Demo­c­ra­t­ic mem­bers of the Unit­ed States House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives have decid­ed to occu­py the well of the House until Speak­er Paul Ryan and his lead­er­ship team agree to hold a vote on leg­is­la­tion that would address the nation’s gun vio­lence epi­dem­ic. The sit-in began with […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

LIVE from Tacoma: Washington’s PLEO national delegates have been chosen

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good after­noon from Taco­ma. Today is the third day of the 2016 Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­ven­tion, the last event in the state par­ty’s cau­cus and con­ven­tion cycle for this year. Com­mit­tee meet­ings and con­stituen­cy cau­cus­es were held on Fri­day along with the gala ban­quet; the gen­er­al ses­sion was held yes­ter­day along with the state leaders […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage, Party Politics

LIVE from Tacoma: Final Credentials report heard; Noel Frame elected Permanent Chair

by Andrew Villeneuve

The 2016 Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­ven­tion is rolling along in Taco­ma. In the span of a few short min­utes, the Con­ven­tion heard a Final Cre­den­tials Report from co-chairs Javier Valdez and Lin­da Isen­son, then pro­ceed­ed to elect a per­ma­nent chair for the Con­ven­tion: 36th Dis­trict Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Noel Frame. As of the time that reg­is­tra­tion closed, 690 […]

Posted inEvents, Live Coverage

LIVE from Tacoma: Preliminary Credentials Committee report delivered and adopted

by Andrew Villeneuve

We are now into our sec­ond hour here at the 2016 Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­ven­tion in Taco­ma; and we’ve just heard the pre­lim­i­nary report of the Cre­den­tials Com­mit­tee, co-chaired by King Coun­ty Com­mit­tee­man Javier Valdez and Pierce Coun­ty Chair Lin­da Isen­son. The report of the com­mit­tee was as fol­lows: 445 Bernie Sanders del­e­gates have signed […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Events, Live Coverage, Party Politics

NPI to provide live coverage of the 2016 Washington State Democratic Convention

by Andrew Villeneuve

This week­end, the Wash­ing­ton State Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty will be hold­ing its 2016 Con­ven­tion, the last event in the par­ty’s bian­nu­al cau­cus and con­ven­tion cycle, at the Greater Taco­ma Con­ven­tion and Trade Cen­ter in the City of Des­tiny. As we have in years past, NPI will be offer­ing live cov­er­age of the goings-on at the Convention, […]

Posted inElections, Live Coverage

Liveblogging the ninth 2016 Democratic presidential debate from the great Northwest

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening, and wel­come to NPI’s live cov­er­age of the ninth Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial debate of the 2016 cycle. I will be watch­ing and shar­ing impres­sions of the debate as it pro­gress­es. This debate is being held in Brook­lyn, New York and is being broad­cast by CNN. You can livestream the debate from CNN’s web­site. There […]

Posted inElections, Events, Live Coverage

LIVE from Safeco Field: Bernie Sanders returns to Seattle for final rally on caucus eve

by Dominic Barrera

Good evening from Safe­co Field! It’s a beau­ti­ful spring evening here in Seat­tle’s SoDo neigh­bor­hood, where Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Bernie Sanders is mak­ing his final Ever­green State appear­ance ahead of Wash­ing­ton’s 2016 Demo­c­ra­t­ic precinct cau­cus­es. Sanders is hop­ing for a big vic­to­ry in Wash­ing­ton to demon­strate that Hillary Clin­ton does­n’t have the nom­i­na­tion locked up yet. […]

Posted inElections, Litigation, Live Coverage

LIVE from Olympia: Washington’s Supreme Court hears oral argument in Lee v. State

by Andrew Villeneuve

Good morn­ing from Olympia! NPI Trea­sur­er Essie Hicks and I are here at the Tem­ple of Jus­tice, the meet­ing place of the Supreme Court, to lis­ten to oral argu­ment in Lee v. State, the legal chal­lenge to Tim Eyman’s I‑1366. Attor­neys rep­re­sent­ing each of the par­ties in the case will have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to summarize […]

Posted inLive Coverage, Policy Topics, Public Planning

Windstorm lashes western Pacific Northwest, felling trees and knocking out power

by Andrew Villeneuve

A pow­er­ful wind­storm rolled through the Pacif­ic North­west today, felling trees, knock­ing out pow­er, and forc­ing the clo­sure of roads and bridges. Gusts of more than six­ty miles per hour were report­ed in many places, like Seat­tle’s Dis­cov­ery Park, which record­ed a peak gust of six­­ty-six miles per hour at 4 PM. Winds were also […]