Council Prez Race: Newest Hession numbers
(Click on map to enlarge.) Vote totals from the Thursday evening ballot count.
Spin Control archive for Aug. 2011
FRIDAY, AUG. 19, 2011
Council Prez race: Newest Stuckart numbers
(Click on map to enlarge.) Latest vote totals from ballot count on evening of Aug. 18.
Council Prez race: Newest Corker numbers
(Click on map to enlarge) Vote totals from evening count of Aug. 18.
THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 2011
New vote totals. Same results
Spokane County Elections Office released the tallies from Thursday's ballot counts, which are pretty much right in line with everything we've seen so far. Spokane Mayor's Race: Mary Verner 59 percent, David Condon 33 percent, everyone else, less than 8 percent. Spokane Council President: Dennis…
Murray actually does do budgets 4
Sen. Patty Murray is getting flak from all sides after her appointment as co-chairman of the budget cutting supercommittee. Republicans and government watchdog groups continue to complain that she's also the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has as its sole raison d'etre…
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 17, 2011
Council Prez race: Where they're strong and where they aren't 1
Unlike Spokane's mayoral race, which has a clear favorite based on the primary results, the council president race is a more interesting mix of support around the city for the top three candidates. As things stand now, former Council President and Mayor Dennis Hession would…
Council Prez Race: Hession's showing
(click on map to enlarge) Dennis Hession is currently first in the Spokane City Primary for council president. This map shows the percentage of the votes he got in each city precinct. Click to return to story
Council Prez Race: Stuckart's showing
(click on map to enlarge) Political newcomer Ben Stuckart is currently in second place in the City Council President primary. This map shows his vote percentages in the city's precincts based on the election night tally. Click to return to story.
Council Prez Race: Corker's showing
(click on map to enlarge) Spokane City Councilman Steve Corker is currently third in the primary for Spokane City Council President, based on the count of ballots on election night. Click to return to story.
Verner beat the field in most precincts 1
(Click on map to enlarge) By now, everyone knows that Spokane voters like to chew up mayors and spit them out after one term, so Mary Verner's ability to win the primary is noteworthy. But just how noteworthy might be best shown by the above…
Seattle voters dig the tunnel
While Spokane voters were sorting through 11 different ballot measures on a wide range of changes, Seattle voters had one big ballot measure to confront: Whether or not to replace the seismicly challenged Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel. It's a nasty debate: Sort of…
David Condon is no Jim West 11
David Condon opened his campaign declaring that Mary Verner was no David Rodgers (the last mayor to win a second term). On Tuesday night, Condon offered some reasons for hope for his campaign, comparing his run to Jim West's 2003 bid for mayor. Condon said…
TUESDAY, AUG. 16, 2011
OFM looks at the initatives 2
OLYMPIA – Washington would collect more revenue if an initiative to privatize liquor sales passes, but could pay more for road projects if another ballot measure on toll roads succeeds. That's the best estimate of the Office of Financial Management, which recently released its analyses…
Unusual voting stat 1
A quick check of turnout through this morning at the Spokane County elections office reveals the following: Turnout for the City of Spokane as a whole is 23 percent, which is nothing to write home about. Turnout is lowest in the Council District 1, the…
Name from the past: Roger Crum
Spokane Valley hired an interim deputy city manager this week who may sound a little familiar to the folks in the city just to the west. Roger Crum. Crum worked for the City of Spokane for 22 years, was deputy city manager for 11 and…
Today's fun video: The media diss Ron Paul
The Daily Show - Indecision 2012 - Corn Polled Edition - Ron Paul & the Top Tier Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Regular reader and longtime local activist Jon Tunig wrote this morning to decry the…
Expect only one vote count tonight
Today is Washington's primary election. If you want to vote, you must cast your ballot by 8 p.m. by dropping it in a ballot drop box, or in a mailbox that is certain to be collected in time to get postmarked with today's date. Spokane…
MONDAY, AUG. 15, 2011
As city deals with more revelations in Zehm case, Verner campaign points to ombudsman 3
Mayor Mary Verner latest campaign newsletter picks a topic fresh in the news: police oversight. Last week, Verner's campaign stressed her support for creating a police ombudsman position at City Hall. The week before, a filing in federal court detailed the position of Assistant Police…
Regence fined for IUD policy
OLYMPIA -- The state's second largest insurance company was fined $100,000 for improperly denying coverage to women seeking to remove a common birth control device. Regence Blue Shield was also ordered to reimburse 984 women across the state for the cost of removing the intrauterine…
Possible Irony Alert: 9/11 edition 1
Among the e-mails in the inbox this morning was a missive from The Simplicity Creative Group which is touting products to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. They have a new line of "We Remember" items for sale that featured the phrase "Never…
Today's fun video: Raising money for the debt 1
This isn't the best Barack Obama impersonation ever, but it is kind of a clever idea. Obama's Kickstarter Campaign to Solve the Debt - watch more funny videos
Time is running out to cast that ballot
Tuesday at 8 p.m. is the deadline for casting a ballot in the primary election. Remember under the current ballot system, there are two ways to get your vote in on time. You can mark it, seal it, sign the outer envelope and put it…
SUNDAY, AUG. 14, 2011
76 candles for the Soc Sec cake
Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday Social Securityyyyyy... The nation's pension program marks its anniversary today. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the law setting up Social Security on Aug. 14, 1935. That means Social Security has been eligible for Social Security…
SATURDAY, AUG. 13, 2011
Sunday spin: Palin not much of a draw 4
Sarah Palin may not be much of a draw in Spokane. That’s one conclusion – and a charitable one, at that – to draw from an event a little more than a week ago at The Bing Crosby Theater featuring the new biographical movie about…
Sunday spin2: I am shocked -- shocked! to find gambling going on
Reporters have been known to bet on almost anything, from when a jury will come back to which candidates will win the races they are covering. It’s a tendency that even some professional gamblers find appalling. So when a Craigslist ad offered a cash prize…
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