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Initiative filed to create public charter schools
OLYMPIA – An initiative that would allow the state to form as many as 40 charter schools over the next five years was filed Tuesday with the secretary of state in an effort to get the proposal on the November ballot. They would be “public charters,” meaning they’d be operated as nonprofits with the same academic standards as other public schools but exempt from some regulations on curriculum and budget.
GOP hopes to oust Roskelley from ballot
The Spokane County Republican Party plans to go to court today to try knocking Democrat John Roskelley off the primary ballot. The county GOP filed a challenge to Roskelley’s current voter registration Friday, and asked Auditor Vicky Dalton to remove his name from the ballot for the District 1 commissioner race, where he’s the sole challenger to incumbent Republican Commissioner Todd Mielke. But an auditor has no authority to strike a name from the ballot, Dalton said, and the party must convince a Superior Court judge to do that.
Spokane GOP challenges Roskelley candidacy
Spokane County Republicans challenge Roskelley’s “residence.” He says it’s just politics.
Primary filing ends with crowded ballot
OLYMPIA – Washington’s primary ballot got longer and more interesting before elections offices closed for filing Friday afternoon. Spokane-area ballots will have nine candidates for governor, eight for U.S. Senate, seven for secretary of state, six for lieutenant governor, five for a Spokane legislative seat, and four for Eastern Washington’s 5th District congressional seat.
McKenna makes candidacy official
OLYMPIA – Several candidates who have been running for months made it official Thursday, adding their names to the growing list of current and potential officeholders for the Aug. 7 ballot. State Attorney General Rob McKenna, who has offices in Seattle and Olympia, filed for governor online, from Spokane. While McKenna is considered the likely Republican nominee for the state’s top job, he joined six others who also want the job, four of them listing their party preference as Republican.
Marijuana activist files for Congress
A Spokane man active in efforts to legalize marijuana entered the primary for Eastern Washington’s congressional seat Wednesday. Ian Moody, 32, who said he is a leader of the Sensible Spokane Alliance as well as an original member of the Occupy Spokane protest, filed for the seat currently held by Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Moody listed no party preference. Rich Cowan, former chief executive officer of North by Northwest, filed earlier this week as a Democrat, and McMorris Rodgers has not yet filed her paperwork although she is actively campaigning.
