Bumperactive, an online bumper-sticker maker ($4.50 each), is trying to design Barack Obama bumper stickers for every state.There's "'bama for Obama" (Alabama, yes), "GumbObama" (Louisiana), a Cheeseheads-themed "Obama Favre" for Wisconsin and, for Arizona, "Re-elect Senator John McCain 2008." (Emphasis on "senator.")In this field of…
-A budget shortfall of $3 billion? The Tri-City Herald's Chris Mulick does the math and concludes that two ballot measures likely to go to voters in November would cost a combined $313 million -- enough to push the state's two-year expected budget shortfall of $2.7…
From the print paper:Walk up the stairs above Frankie's bar in Olympia, and it's like stepping back to 2005.Bar patrons are talking over tall mugs of beer, nothing unusual about that. But there are ashtrays – ashtrays! – on the tables. And a slight smoky…
I-1029 has turned in nearly 317,000 signatures, according to campaign manager Jeff Parsons.Parsons said he's confident that the measure will withstand any challenge regarding the initiative-to-the-legislature wording error on the form. (See below)"With almost 317,000 people signing this, it's definitely something people want," he said…
In 50 minutes, proponents of Initiative 1029 are scheduled to deliver thousands of petitions to the Secretary of State's office in Olympia. Presumably, they'll have enough signatures to get the measure -- which would mandate more training and background checks for some health workers --…
Controversial initiative pitchman Tim Eyman, whose been booted from meetings and once got pied in the face by political opponents, this week faced a new challenge: the lawnmower man.Eyman on Tuesday got ready to file his latest initiative petitions, enough to put I-985 on the…
Gov. Chris Gregoire's campaign says that the Building Industry Association of Washington, fresh from a month of radio ads, appears poised to launch new anti-Gregoire ads on TV. The group's been checking media-buy records at TV stations."It is no surprise that Republican Dino Rossi's biggest…
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