Democratic voters in Oregon’s brand new 6th Congressional District have chosen State Representative Andrea Salinas to carry the party’s standard in the coming general election, early election results indicate.
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Oregon’s Democratic electorate picks Tina Kotek as the party’s nominee for Governor
Oregon’s former Democratic Speaker of the House Tina Kotek has secured the party’s 2022 gubernatorial nomination and will attempt to keep the state’s top position in Democratic hands this autumn, initial returns show.
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Today is Primary Election Day 2022 in Oregon and Idaho: Be sure to vote!
Readers, if you live in the Beaver State or the Gem State, it’s very, very important you exercise your civic duty today and vote.
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WA Filing Week 2022: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Monday evening
Who had filed for public office in Washington State as of the close of filing on Monday, May 17th, 2022? This post covers notable filings and provides links to the complete list for each county.
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Tim Eyman again begs for some benefactors to step forth and revive his initiative business
Standing outside the Secretary of State’s Elections Annex under a covered walkway, Eyman staged a repeat performance of the event he orchestrated last autumn, in which he made a similar public plea for rich right wing funders to pony up megabucks to allow him to run a new initiative to get rid of Washington State’s new capital gains tax on the wealthy
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Reagan Dunn votes against reproductive rights as Democrats vow to make abortion care an issue in the 2022 midterms
If you missed the movie “Twister,” watch what Dunn, who is challenging Representative Kim Schrier, says and does on reproductive rights. His mother, the late United States Representative Jennifer Dunn, who retired in 2004, was a Reagan Republican, but pro-choice.
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Joe Manchin joins Republicans to defeat Women’s Health Protection Act in U.S. Senate
The bill, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, had been expected to get filibustered. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer staged the vote anyway to put Republicans on record as opposed to reproductive rights
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Campaign to nix capital gains tax gets more money but hasn’t launched a signature drive
Despite having spent more than a quarter of a million dollars already, the Initiative 1929 campaign is still not yet in the field. It also hasn’t taken the password protection off of the campaign website that a vendor was paid several thousand dollars to create.
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Reagan Dunn and Jason Rantz are wrong: Moving county elections to even years won’t hurt public discourse at the local level
Read NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve’s rebuttal to right wing arguments against the organization’s proposal to switch elections for twelve King County positions to even-numbered years.
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Last Week In Congress: How Cascadia’s U.S. lawmakers voted (May 2nd-6th)
The week’s major votes included Senate confirmation of three Biden nominees and the passage of multiple Republican-sponsored motions to instruct conferees on the negotiations for the America Competes Act.
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Distract and distort: Republicans declare Alito Court the victim after anti-Roe draft leaks
The extreme right wing has moved quickly to distract and distort in the wake of Politico’s publication of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion holding that the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision was egregiously wrong.
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Let’s amend the King County Charter to elect all county offices in even-numbered years
If adopted by the Council and ratified by voters this November, the amendment would eventually result in future elections for Executive, Assessor, Elections Director, and County Council being held in midterm and presidential cycles, rather than in odd-numbered years, as has been the case for many years.
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts admits that leaked Alito draft is authentic
A draft of a majority opinion overturning the United States Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and leaked to Politico is authentic, Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted in a statement released by the Court.
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Draft of opinion overturning Roe v. Wade leaks out of the United States Supreme Court
Authored by Samuel Alito, one of George W. Bush’s two Supreme Court appointees, the draft declares that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “the decision has had damaging consequences.”