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Hill family, Bill Bryant lend their email lists to help Senate candidate Jinyoung Lee Englund

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Repub­li­can Jiny­oung Lee Englund, who is com­pet­ing in the spe­cial state Sen­ate elec­tion in Wash­ing­ton’s 45th Dis­trict this year with the full back­ing of the Repub­li­can estab­lish­ment, announced today that she has raised a total of $225,000 since launch­ing her cam­paign a few weeks ago. “I’m hum­bled and ener­gized by the sup­port of Wash­ing­to­ni­ans across […]

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Senate Republicans unveil their candidate in WA’s 45th District: Jinyoung Lee Englund

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

With about a month to go until Fil­ing Week 2017, Sen­ate Repub­li­cans have final­ly unveiled their recruit for the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate in the bat­tle­ground 45th Dis­trict: Jiny­oung Lee Englund, a for­mer vice pres­i­dent of strat­e­gy for the Dig­i­tal Cur­ren­cy Coun­cil who has been active in nation­al Repub­li­can pol­i­tics. Englund is the sec­ond Repub­li­can candidate […]

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45th District Democrats unanimously endorse Manka Dhingra for Washington State Senate

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Eager to reclaim the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate fol­low­ing the treach­ery of Rod­ney Tom and Tim Shel­don, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic grass­roots in Wash­ing­ton’s 45th Dis­trict vot­ed enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly yes­ter­day evening to endorse Man­ka Dhin­gra, an expe­ri­enced senior deputy pros­e­cut­ing attor­ney who has been mov­ing swift­ly to build a cam­paign focused on amply fund­ing edu­ca­tion and men­tal health. The 45th, which is […]

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Brian Dansel resigns; Washington’s Senate Republicans lose their majority (temporarily)

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Repub­li­cans are tem­porar­i­ly with­out a major­i­ty in the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate owing to the res­ig­na­tion of 7th Dis­trict Sen­a­tor Bri­an Dansel, who has just tak­en a job in neo­fas­cist Don­ald Trump’s admin­is­tra­tion. Dansel’s res­ig­na­tion, effec­tive as of 1 PM today, leaves the Sen­ate Repub­li­can cau­cus with just twen­­ty-four mem­bers, includ­ing Tim Shel­don (R‑35th Dis­trict), who […]

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Thanks, Tim Eyman, for reminding us you’re incapable of comprehending our Constitution

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Noto­ri­ous ini­tia­tive prof­i­teer Tim Eyman has been active in Wash­ing­ton State pol­i­tics a very long time — around twen­ty years, in fact. And as read­ers of the Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate are well aware, Tim has made sell­ing destruc­tive right-wing ini­tia­tives his full time occu­pa­tion… to the detri­ment of Wash­ing­ton State. The major­i­ty of the ini­tia­tives Eyman has […]

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LIVE from Seattle: Special nominating caucus to replace Pramila Jayapal in 37th underway

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Good evening from Seat­tle. I’m here at the Rainier Arts Cen­ter, where the Demo­c­ra­t­ic precinct com­mit­tee offi­cers of the 37th Leg­isla­tive Dis­trict are gath­ered to draw up a list of can­di­dates to suc­ceed U.S. Rep­re­sen­­ta­­tive-elect Prami­la Jaya­pal, who has sub­mit­ted her res­ig­na­tion effec­tive Decem­ber 11th, 2016. Because Prami­la is head­ing to the Oth­er Wash­ing­ton to represent […]

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Republicans nominate Dino Rossi, Toby Nixon, and Joel Hussey to succeed Andy Hill

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

The King Coun­ty Repub­li­can Par­ty has nom­i­nat­ed for­mer State Sen­a­tor Dino Rossi, Kirk­land City Coun­cilmem­ber Toby Nixon, and peren­ni­al leg­isla­tive can­di­date Joel Hussey to suc­ceed Andy Hill, per a tweet from Repub­li­can con­sul­tant Brett Bad­er, who we’re guess­ing attend­ed the par­ty’s nom­i­nat­ing meet­ing today. Rossi, fifty-sev­en has served mul­ti­ple stints in the Wash­ing­ton State Sen­ate and […]

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

Andrew Villeneuveby 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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30th Legislative District celebrates Democratic swing

by Dominic Barrera

Ten­sion was high at the joint elec­tion night par­ty for state House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives can­di­dates Kris­tine Reeves and Mike Pel­lic­ciot­ti. Democ­rats gath­ered as con­cern­ing pres­i­den­tial elec­tion results poured in pri­or to Wash­ing­ton poll clo­sure. Just before 8 PM, 30th LD Demo­c­ra­t­ic Chair Tim Burns round­ed up the 60 or so vol­un­teers and guests in a […]

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Kristine Reeves takes thirteen vote lead over Teri Hickel in 30th District House race

Andrew Villeneuveby Andrew Villeneuve

Demo­c­ra­t­ic chal­lenger Kris­tine Reeves has regained a nar­row lead over Repub­li­can incum­bent Teri Hick­el in the con­test for 30th LD State Rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Posi­tion 2, as of the com­ple­tion of the fourth tab­u­la­tion of bal­lots since Elec­tion Night. On Fri­day, Hick­el had a lead of just two votes, with a total of 9,009 votes to Reeves’ 9,007. […]