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Reierson files for prosecutor
Reierson files for prosecutor
Elex roundup, CA voters go for Top 2
Elex roundup, CA voters go for Top 2
Will Parker get a Democratic opponent?
Will Parker get a Democratic opponent?
More candidates, more events: Wassup June 9
More candidates, more events: Wassup June 9
Don’t wait too long to file for office
Don’t wait too long to file for office
Tuesday filings: Lunchtime update
Tuesday filings: Lunchtime update
Filing Week, Day 2: Wassup June 7
Filing Week, Day 2: Wassup June 7
Two Democrats seeking McMorris Rodgers’ post
Last week, Democrats had no one to run against Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers for Eastern Washington’s congressional seat. Monday they had two – a novice from Spokane Valley and a perennial office-seeker from Spokane. Clyde Cordero, an advertising salesman for a Web publication, announced Monday that he would run for the seat that has been reliably Republican since the GOP knocked off the sitting speaker of the House in 1994. Cordero is originally from California, and moved to the Valley about 4 1/2 years ago with his wife and two children to be close to her family.
2 Democrats in 5th Congressional District race against McMorris Rodgers
2 Democrats in 5th Congressional District race against McMorris Rodgers
Washington legal marijuana initiative in danger
An effort to legalize marijuana for adults in Washington is in danger of not making the ballot this year, after support from the state’s progressive establishment failed to materialize.
Cordero to challenge McMorris Rodgers
Cordero to challenge McMorris Rodgers
Talking about running for office? Put up or shut up
Talking about running for office? Put up or shut up
Candidates must file for office by end of week
For Washington state candidates, it’s put up or shut up time. Starting Monday morning, they have five days to file paperwork and pay the fee necessary to run for one of the many elective offices on this year’s ballot.
Eight simples rules can smooth campaign path
Each campaign season brings a new crop of candidates who pump fresh blood into the body politic. Good thing, too: The body politic could use a transfusion, or at least iron supplements. Most years, some newbies call for advice, which Spin Control is prohibited by the newspaper’s owner, long-standing journalism policies and several admonitions in the Bible from providing. As we did at the start of last year’s campaign season, however, we will offer our eight “rules to live by” for candidates and campaigns.
Benton drops out of Senate race, backs Rossi
Just a week after saying he was sticking in the U.S. Senate race, State Sen. Don Benton dropped out and endorsed the man he labeled the “establishment” candidate, Dino Rossi.
Campaigns adjust to Labrador upset
BOISE – Democratic U.S. Rep. Walt Minnick’s campaign has spent months and money preparing to square off against Republican Vaughn Ward. They even tracked the Marine reservist’s every step along the campaign trail on video. But GOP voters in western Idaho had different ideas. They selected state Rep. Raul Labrador on Tuesday as the Republican nominee in Idaho’s nationally targeted 1st Congressional District race.
Coday drops from U.S. Senate race
Coday drops from U.S. Senate race
GOP Senate field still wide
Dino Rossi’s long-expected entrance into the U.S. Senate race did not prompt a mass exodus by other Republican candidates Wednesday. Several said they welcomed competition with the former state senator who has been weighing the race for months. Rossi, who announced his candidacy on the Internet early Wednesday, has statewide name recognition from two runs for governor and enters the race with the support of top Senate Republicans. But at least five active GOP candidates said they’ll stick in the race.
Rossi plans Wednesday announcement on Senate race
Republican Dino Rossi says he will release an online video announcement on his plans for the U.S. Senate race in Washington state.
In primaries, voters snub establishment
WASHINGTON – Party-switching Sen. Arlen Specter fell to a younger and far less experienced rival in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, and political novice Rand Paul rode support from tea party activists to a Republican rout in Kentucky on Tuesday, the latest jolts to the political establishment in a tumultuous midterm election season. In another race with national significance, Democrat Mark Critz won a special House election to fill out the term of the late Democratic Rep. John Murtha in southwestern Pennsylvania. The two political parties spent roughly $1 million apiece hoping to sway the outcome there, and highlighted the contest as a possible bellwether for the fall when all 435 House seats will be on the ballot.