Excerpt: | America's forty-sixth president is commendably seeking to restore faith in government, showing that the people of the United States can enable each other to realize their hopes and dreams. |
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Published at: | 10:48 PM on Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 |
Written by: | Joel Connelly |
Other Categories: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Budgeting, Fair Wages & Leave, Fiscal Responsibility, School Funding, Secure Firearms Ownership, Strong Commonwealth |
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Category Archives: Open Government
Joe Biden’s primetime address adeptly sought to relink U.S. to the idea of E Pluribus Unum
Biden administration to the rescue! OMB halts sale of National Archives’ Seattle campus
Excerpt: | The Office of Management and Budget, a key executive branch agency, has withdrawn its approval for the sale of the National Archives' Seattle campus, in a victory for the people and tribal communities of Cascadia. |
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Published at: | 12:44 PM on Thursday, April 8th, 2021 |
Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
Other Categories: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Accountable Leaders |
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Tim Eyman concedes that judge’s sentence won’t keep him out of Washington politics
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: | Policy Topics |
Tags: | Money in Politics, Permanent Defense, Public Records |
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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: | Policy 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: | Policy 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: | Policy 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: | Policy 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: | Economic Security, Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics, 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: | Policy 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: | Policy 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: | Elections, Policy Topics |
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: | Policy 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: | Legislative Advocacy, Policy Topics |
Tags: | Accountable Leaders, Impeachment |
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The Biden-Harris administration is showing us that it gets the importance of reframing