Tag: WA-Exec

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Chris Reykdal set to become Washington’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction

by Andrew Villeneuve

State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Chris Reyk­dal (D‑22nd Dis­trict: Olympia, Tumwa­ter) is set to become Wash­ing­ton State’s next Super­in­ten­dent of Pub­lic Instruc­tion after fresh results show it’s become math­e­mat­i­cal­ly impos­si­ble for him to lose. “We are up over 28,000 votes with less than 18,000 to count in our race. We have achieved a math­e­mat­i­cal vic­to­ry,” Reyk­dal not­ed in a […]

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As darkness envelops American democracy, Washington State charts a progressive path

by Andrew Villeneuve

Cat­a­stro­phe. Dev­as­tat­ing. Tragedy. Those are some of the words I’m see­ing being used in an attempt to describe the out­come of the 2016 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, which end­ed last night in a series of dark, dis­turb­ing defeats for Hillary Clin­ton and the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty. And yet, while vot­ers in Michi­gan, Wis­con­sin, and Penn­syl­va­nia were hand­ing the nation’s […]

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Poll Watch: Tina Podlodowski narrowly ahead of Kim Wyman; I‑732 well under fifty percent

by Andrew Villeneuve

With Novem­ber 8th only a month away, we’re start­ing to see new polling released on a near-dai­­ly basis. Today, KOMO TV and Strate­gies 360 released a new set of results from a recent poll they col­lab­o­rat­ed on, while Tina Pod­lodowski’s cam­paign dis­trib­uted find­ings from a poll show­ing Pod­lodows­ki nar­row­ly ahead of incum­bent Repub­li­can Kim Wyman […]

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Washington’s voter turnout has been declining under Kim Wyman, data shows

by Andrew Villeneuve

For the past three and a half years, Wash­ing­ton Sec­re­tary of State Kim Wyman has served as the lone Repub­li­can in the state’s exec­u­tive depart­ment, hav­ing tak­en over for Sam Reed fol­low­ing the 2012 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. In that time, Wash­ing­ton has expe­ri­enced an extreme­ly wor­ry­ing decline in vot­er par­tic­i­pa­tion, cul­mi­nat­ing in last year’s worst-ever general […]

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Thursday afternoon update: Counting continues in Top Two election

by Zach Haver

As the votes in Wash­ing­ton’s 2016 Top Two elec­tion con­tin­ue to be count­ed, here is the lat­est tab­u­la­tions in sev­er­al of the clos­est races. All data is from the Sec­re­tary of State and coun­ty elec­tions offi­cials. Lt. Gov­er­nor Cyrus Habib (D) — 20.78% Mar­ty McClen­don (R) — 19.81% 1st Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict, Sen­ate Mindie Wirth (R) ‑39.89% […]

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Hilary Franz ahead of four other Democrats in contest for Commissioner of Public Lands

by Andrew Villeneuve

Future­wise Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Hilary Franz appears to have earned a spot on the Novem­ber gen­er­al elec­tion bal­lot as the Demo­c­rat with the most sup­port for Com­mis­sion­er of Pub­lic Lands. She’s cur­rent­ly ahead of four oth­er Demo­c­ra­t­ic can­di­dates — King Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Dave Upthe­grove, for­mer Spokane May­or Mary Vern­er, Karen Porter­field, and John Still­ings. Repub­li­can Steve […]

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Peter Goldmark announces his retirement as Washington’s Commissioner of Public Lands

by Andrew Villeneuve

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 incumbent […]

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Washington’s longtime Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen announces his retirement

by Andrew Villeneuve

In a noon speech today before the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate, long­time Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor Brad Owen announced that he has decid­ed to retire from pub­lic life after five terms and won’t seek reelec­tion this autumn. Owen, who has served as Pres­i­dent of the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate since Jan­u­ary 1997 — also fill­ing in for Gov­er­nors Gary […]

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Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn says he won’t run again in 2016

by Andrew Villeneuve

Incum­bent Wash­ing­ton State Super­in­ten­dent of Pub­lic Instruc­tion Randy Dorn announced today that he has decid­ed against run­ning for reelec­tion in 2016, which means we will have an open race for OSPI next year. In a state­ment sent to NPI and oth­er media out­lets, Dorn announced his deci­sion and made it clear he would not be leaving […]

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Washington’s Democratic Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen files to run for reelection

by Andrew Villeneuve

Wash­ing­ton’s incum­bent Demo­c­ra­t­ic Lieu­tenant Gov­er­nor Brad Owen recent­ly filed paper­work with the Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion to start up a reelec­tion cam­paign for 2016, PDC doc­u­ments show, join­ing sev­er­al oth­er statewide Demo­c­ra­t­ic incum­bents who have active 2016 cam­paigns, includ­ing Gov­er­nor Jay Inslee, Lands Com­mis­sion­er Peter Gold­mark, and Trea­sur­er James McIn­tire. Owen, six­­ty-five, has been Wash­ing­ton’s lieutenant […]

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Secretary of State contest very close: Democrat Kathleen Drew trails, but could reclaim lead by end of the week

by Andrew Villeneuve

Over the last few days, I’ve heard sev­er­al peo­ple pre­dict that Wash­ing­ton’s 2012 guber­na­to­r­i­al race would like­ly be as tight as the 2004 con­test between Chris Gre­goire and Dino Rossi, which dragged on for weeks as bal­lots were count­ed and recount­ed. It does­n’t look like that will be the case; Jay Inslee has a lead […]

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Vote Downballot: NPI talks with Kathleen Drew, candidate for Secretary of State

by Andrew Villeneuve

Every four years, in addi­tion to cast­ing votes for pres­i­dent and gov­er­nor, Wash­ing­to­ni­ans are also called upon to elect more than half a dozen oth­er indi­vid­u­als to serve in the state’s exec­u­tive depart­ment. The con­tests for these posi­tions are often referred to as down­bal­lot races because they appear fur­ther down the bal­lot. They usu­al­ly don’t […]

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Zack Hudgins to run for secretary of state; Craig Pridemore to run for auditor

by Andrew Villeneuve

Two Demo­c­ra­t­ic leg­is­la­tors, one from the House and one from the Sen­ate, announced with­in hours of each oth­er this morn­ing that they’ve decid­ed to run for statewide posi­tions in 2012, enlarg­ing the field of can­di­dates who are seek­ing to make the jump to high­er office in what promis­es to be fair­ly excit­ing year. State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Zack […]