| Excerpt: | Eyman's convenient pivot away from **Help me -- Attorney General Bob Ferguson is trying to ban me from politics for life!** to **Full steam ahead -- nothing's gonna stop me** was entirely predictable. |
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| Published at: | 4:11 PM on Monday, February 15th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Money in Politics, Permanent Defense, Public Records |
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Category Archives: Open Government
Tim Eyman concedes that judge’s sentence won’t keep him out of Washington politics
Despite Republicans’ depravity, Donald Trump is and shall always remain guilty of treason
| Excerpt: | Donald Trump is guilty. He may not have been convicted of his treachery by the requisite two-thirds of the Senate as the Constitution requires. But he did the crime and he will rightly be remembered by history as a criminal and a traitor. |
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| Published at: | 2:15 PM on Saturday, February 13th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Impeachment, U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes |
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Bob Ferguson has done it again! Judge blocks plot to sell National Archives’ Seattle campus
| Excerpt: | “Today’s legal victory blocks the federal government’s unlawful plan to sell the Archives and scatter the DNA of our region thousands of miles away,” Washington's Attorney General said. |
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| Published at: | 5:45 PM on Friday, February 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Public Records |
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Inside Tim Eyman’s profit machine: A cartoon guide to his many moneymaking schemes
| Excerpt: | To help people who are interested in Eyman's history understand it better, we've created a cartoon guide that explains the many different schemes Eyman has cooked up to rake in the Benjamins. |
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| Published at: | 12:44 PM on Friday, February 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Campaign Disclosure, Money in Politics, Permanent Defense, Public Records |
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As Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial begins, Republican senators seek to bail — despite being witnesses to the crime
| Excerpt: | A terrorist mob was sent by Donald Trump to attack the United States Capitol on January 6th. Republican senators are preparing to vote to acquit him anyway. |
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| Published at: | 7:23 PM on Monday, February 8th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Impeachment |
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Incoming Biden-Harris team signals it will avoid repeating many of Obama’s missteps
| Excerpt: | At this incredibly fraught and perilous moment in American history, we don't just need steady, compassionate governance -- we need savvy, capable leadership with a respect and appreciation for history and a willingness to learn from it. |
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| Published at: | 9:00 PM on Monday, January 18th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Public Service |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Budgeting, Fiscal Responsibility, Partybuilding, Presidential Transitions |
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Republican lawmakers are still harping about building access, even after attack on Capitol
| Excerpt: | So much for "Law and Order!" and respecting law enforcement. Once again, Republicans have proven that they are wholly unwilling to accept the rules and standards that they want to impose on everybody else. |
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| Published at: | 8:30 AM on Thursday, January 14th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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America’s wrong wing tries bevy of ploys to recover from the trashing of the U.S. Capitol
| Excerpt: | How does the right -- or, more accurately, wrong -- wing plan to regroup with President-elect Joe Biden assuming office? |
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| Published at: | 9:21 PM on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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Donald Trump has become the first person holding the presidency to be impeached twice
| Excerpt: | Voting two hundred and thirty-two to one hundred and ninety-seven, the House agreed to transmit a single new article of impeachment to the Senate. Every Democrat who participated in the vote backed the article, along with ten Republicans who crossed over. |
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| Published at: | 1:53 PM on Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Elections |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Impeachment |
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Jaime Herrera Beutler will be one of the Republicans voting to impeach Donald Trump
| Excerpt: | We still don't know how many Republicans will vote to impeach. But we do know that at least one from our region will be among their number, and that is Jaime Herrera Beutler, who represents the 3rd Congressional District, spanning Southwest Washington. |
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| Published at: | 11:46 PM on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Impeachment |
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NPI calls on Pacific Northwest congressional delegation to impeach Donald Trump — again
| Excerpt: | Read a letter from the leadership of the Northwest Progressive Institute to the region's members of Congress urging them to impeach Donald Trump for a second time. |
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| Published at: | 9:36 PM on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Impeachment |
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Progressive champion Representative Pramila Jayapal has tested positive for COVID-19
| Excerpt: | Sad news to share: our own Representative Pramila Jayapal says that she has tested positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Read her full statement. |
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| Published at: | 7:30 AM on Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Legislative Advocacy |
| Tags: | 2019-2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, Accountable Leaders |
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Three out of four members of the Capitol Police Board are gone or on their way out
| Excerpt: | The agency responsible for the protection of Congress' meeting place, the headquarters of the government of the United States, will be getting a major leadership overhaul. |
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| Published at: | 6:08 PM on Thursday, January 7th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Other Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics |
| Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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Biden administration to the rescue! OMB halts sale of National Archives’ Seattle campus