| Excerpt: | The November 2018 midterms produced a more diverse Washington State Legislature. Get to know the newest Democratic representative and senators! |
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| Published at: | 1:00 PM on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019 |
| Written by: | Caitlin Harrington |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Party Politics |
| Tags: | WA-Leg |
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Category Archives: Public Service
Meet the Democrats joining the Washington State Legislature on January 14th, 2019
Paul Ryan backs down; Patrick Conroy will remain in his post as U.S. House chaplain
| Excerpt: | The veteran United States House chaplain, a beloved Jesuit priest, will continue with his ministry to the chamber's four hundred and thirty five voting members after Speaker Paul Ryan backed down and assented to Conroy's wish to rescind the resignation he had unhappily offered last month at Ryan's behest. |
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| Published at: | 11:44 PM on Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Open Government, Party Politics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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Disturbing Senate confirmation hearing shows why Pompeo should not be confirmed
| Excerpt: | Pompeo seems more interested in pleasing Donald Trump and hiding whatever members of the Foreign Relations Committee want to know about their secret meeting regarding Mueller's investigation. He should not be confirmed. |
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| Published at: | 11:40 PM on Thursday, April 12th, 2018 |
| Written by: | Essie Hicks |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, World Commmunity |
| Tags: | Confirmation Hearings, Nominations |
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Maria Cantwell will join filibuster of Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
| Excerpt: | Washington’s junior United States Senator Maria Cantwell announced today that she will be joining her seatmate Patty Murray and many other Democratic Senators in filibustering Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as well as voting no on his nomination should the filibuster be broken. “We need a U.S. Supreme Court justice who will stand […] |
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| Published at: | 12:17 PM on Thursday, March 30th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Public Service |
| Tags: | Nominations, U.S. Supreme Court Vacancies |
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Congratulations, Tanika Padhye, and welcome to the Redmond City Council
| Excerpt: | Yesterday evening, at its March 7th business meeting, the Redmond City Council selected Tanika Padhye to fill the vacancy created by the January resignation of NPI Advisory Council member Kim Allen, who stepped down due to having an increasingly travel-centric work schedule. Padhye, forty-three, was previously a member of the city’s Planning Commission and has […] |
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| Published at: | 10:12 PM on Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Public Service |
| Tags: | Appointments |
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Jeff Sessions must resign — immediately
| Excerpt: | 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 […] |
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| Published at: | 11:36 PM on Wednesday, March 1st, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Breaking News, Core Encyclopedia Topics, Open Government |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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Senate Democrats must filibuster Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
| Excerpt: | Neofascist Donald Trump tonight announced he is nominating an archconservative judge to fill the vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death nearly a year ago, which should have been filled last year, but wasn’t due to the obstructionism of Senate Republicans. Trump’s pick, Neil Gorsuch, would be an almost sure vote to “to limit gay rights, […] |
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| Published at: | 8:10 PM on Tuesday, January 31st, 2017 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Party Politics |
| Tags: | Filibuster Reform, U.S. Supreme Court Vacancies |
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Thanks, Tim Eyman, for reminding us you’re incapable of comprehending our Constitution
| Excerpt: | Notorious initiative profiteer Tim Eyman has been active in Washington State politics a very long time — around twenty years, in fact. And as readers of the Cascadia Advocate are well aware, Tim has made selling destructive right-wing initiatives his full time occupation… to the detriment of Washington State. The majority of the initiatives Eyman […] |
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| Published at: | 2:21 PM on Thursday, December 29th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Party Politics |
| Tags: | Appointments, Permanent Defense, WA-Leg |
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Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) said to be Trump’s Interior Secretary pick
| Excerpt: | 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 […] |
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| Published at: | 10:40 AM on Friday, December 9th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Breaking News, Elections, Party Politics |
| Tags: | Nominations, WA-05 |
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Peter Goldmark announces his retirement as Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands
| Excerpt: | Washington State’s incumbent Commissioner of Public Lands has just announced via Facebook that he’s decided to step down and will not seek a third term in 2016. Peter J. Goldmark, sixty-nine, has served as the state’s independently elected chief of the Department of Natural Resources since January 2009. He was originally elected in 2008, defeating […] |
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| Published at: | 6:41 PM on Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections |
| Tags: | WA-Exec |
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King County Council appoints Reuven Carlyle to State Senate, Noel Frame to State House
| Excerpt: | This afternoon, in its first meeting of 2016, the Metropolitan King County Council acted to fill two vacancies in the Washington State Legislature, both resulting from Jeanne Kohl-Welles’ move from the Senate to the King County Council. By a vote of nine to zero, the Council first appointed State Representative Reuven Carlyle (D-36th District: Ballard, […] |
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| Published at: | 2:34 PM on Thursday, January 7th, 2016 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Party Politics |
| Tags: | Legislative Appointments |
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NPI’s Gael Tarleton elected Majority Floor Leader by Washington’s House Democrats
| Excerpt: | Earlier this evening, we received word that State Representative and NPI Vice President-Secretary Gael Tarleton has been elected by her Democratic colleagues to serve as the new Majority Floor Leader in the Washington State House of Representatives, succeeding Representative Kristine Lytton, who is taking over the chairmanship of the House Finance Committee from Reuven Carlyle. […] |
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| Published at: | 10:18 PM on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Elections, Party Politics |
| Tags: | WA-Leg |
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Kris Lytton, Liz Lovelett, and Trevor Smith nominated to replace Kevin Ranker in 40th LD