Political observers called it an embarrassing failure for theocratic Speaker Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy’s embattled successor.
Category: Open Government
Posted inElections
New reporting shines light on Joe Kent’s bad bookkeeping, shady campaign operations
The Daily Beast has taken a deep dive look at what lies beneath the surface of the 2024 WA-03 Republican frontrunner’s campaign, and found a lot of muck.
Posted inPolicy Topics
House Republicans vote to formalize their baseless impeachment inquiry against Biden
The launch came on a 221–212 party-line vote after self-styled reasonable Republicans, representing districts carried by Biden and Harris in 2020, were press ganged to go along.
Posted inPolicy Topics
United States House of Representatives finally expels fraudster George Santos
Santos is just the sixth person to be forcibly removed from the House in its centuries-long existence.
Posted inPolicy Topics
The Roberts/Alito Supreme Court’s toothless new code of ethics isn’t good enough
The code asks justices not to play a part in cases where they have a professional connection or personal interest. Compliance is entirely voluntary and based the judgment of the justice.
Posted inPublic Service
United States House of Representatives votes to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker
McCarthy’s speakership lasted just two hundred and sixty-nine days, ranking as one of the shortest in American history.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Cory Booker, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell join calls for Bob Menendez’s resignation
Menendez might feel that since he beat previous charges brought by the Department of Justice, he can do so again. But other Democrats aren’t betting on him (nor should they).
Posted inElections
Memo to Washington State’s right wing: Harassment is not accountability
In orchestrating this bombardment of an elected official’s personal mobile number with angrily-worded text messages, Tim Eyman and others are seeking to intimidate an elected official so she doesn’t cross them in the future.
Posted inElections
Republican megadonor Brian Heywood opens his wallet to fund six-initiative signature drive
A wealthy donor to the Washington State Republican Party has begun funneling serious money into a signature drive that aims to qualify a slew of six right wing initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature, reports filed this week with the Public Disclosure Commission by his political committee show.
Posted inElections
Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward feigns ignorance after accepting Matt Shea’s blessing at a white Christian nationalist rally
Woodward was already facing a tough general election campaign to win a second term, as evidenced by her loss to Lisa Brown in the August Top Two election. Now her electoral prospects look even dimmer.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
New fiscal dashboard proposed by NPI and Senator Kuderer goes live for Washingtonians
Prepared by the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program (LEAP) and the Office of Financial Management (OFM), the Budgeting for Washington’s Future fiscal dashboard provides useful, truthful, and accurate information about state revenue and expenditures, as required by the legislation we created to get rid of Tim Eyman’s push polls.
Posted inMedia & Culture
Ultra MAGA Republicans give RFK’s wayward son another platform to spew his bile
The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, invited Robert F. Kennedy’s son to entertain them with conspiracy theories and misinformation on July 20th.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Second Trump indictment lands, this one from federal charges filed by special counsel
The indictment charges that Trump unlawfully took and retained classified information that did not belong to him after exiting the White House, and that he lied about his actions and obstructed the federal government’s efforts to recover the documents, because he didn’t want to give them back.
Posted inPolicy Topics
Slimy Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gets impeached by his fellow Republicans
The saga of Paxton, now suspended from office pending a Senate trial, carries national lessons in the lengths to which the political right shows loyalty, and meet out punishment to those who dare to question even conduct that is outrageous.