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Spin Control archive for Oct. 9, 2013

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 2013

McMorris Rodgers part of negotiating team on shutdown 

Time Magazine is reporting Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, has been selected by House Speaker John Boehner to negotiate Thursday with President Barack Obama on the partial federal government shutdown. Obama originally invited all members of the House of Representatives to 1600 W. Pennsylvania Ave.…

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OLYMPIA -- Carol Holt, Robert Martin and Barbara King (seated, left to right) count petitions for I-594,  a gun control initiative, while Kate Ayres carries counted stacks to a storage box in the Secretary of State's elections division office. (Jim Camden)

I-594 sponsors turn in 250K signatures

Carol Holt, Robert Martin and Barbara King count petitions whild Kate Ayers shuttles stacks of I-594 to a storage box. OLYMPIA — Sponsors of a proposal to expand background checks for gun purchases turned in 250,000 signatures Wednesday to qualify it as an initiative to…

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