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November 10, 2010
Analyzing the Election: Republicans Voted Early, Democrats Voted Late
The standard meme of the 2010 election was that an enthusiasm gap existed between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals. People who had never been involved in politics before joined Tea Parties, mad as hell over out-of-control governmental spending. Progressives were supposed ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Can This Be The End Of Dino Rossi?
Do three losses in six years a political obituary make? What does the future hold for Dino Rossi? Two weeks after losing his latest bid for U.S. Senate, the questions are easy to ask but harder to answer.
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November 19, 2010
Mike McGinn's Nightlife Initiative to Be Revived in January
In July Mayor Mike McGinn introduced his nightlife initiative, an ambitious eight-point plan that aimed to dramatically reshape the way Seattle got its drink on. The most ambitious part of the plan? More time to booze! Or, translated in more serious language, a proposal to extend or stagger b ... More >>
News
December 1, 2010
FAIR-y Tales
Russell Pearce and other illegal-immigration populists rely on misleading right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinching Americans.
News
December 1, 2010
Mexican Macro-Economics
Do undocumented migrants steal jobs from American workers?
News
December 1, 2010
Fantasy Voter Fraud
How do you frighten voters into believing undocumented immigrants can steal elections, even though there's no such evidence?
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November 30, 2010
Tim Eyman's Latest Initiative: Ey-mail Reports About the Politicians Who Oppose His Tax Cuts
As part of his evolution from grassroots activist to professional politician, Tim Eyman appears to have taken on the added role of almost-live blogger. He attends public meetings--announcing his arrival in advance--testifies, takes notes, and then reports the minute-by-minute action later in ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Governing Magazine Rates Chris Gregoire-Rob McKenna 2012 Race as a Tossup
Polling and analyzing the 2012 presidential election has been going on since just about a week after Barack Obama took his hand of the Bible in January of '09. Squaring up the 2012 gubernatorial elections, however, is still a relatively recent phenomenon. Nonetheless, what seems to be the fir ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Today in Sex: John Edwards is the Most Loathed Man in America Today
With the death of his estranged wife Elizabeth yesterday, the nation was once again reminded that John Edwards is a steaming chunk of rancid turdmeat. I mean, it's one thing to cheat on your wife—it's quite another to fuck around and father a child while that wife is undergoing treatment ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Gov. Gregoire: I Don't Talk to Mayor McGinn Anymore
Gov. Chris Gregoire left the P-I's office earlier today, having dropped a verbal steamer on Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, saying: "...he demeaned the office of the mayor... How do you work with someone who said they can't trust you?"
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December 17, 2010
John Roderick Column Becomes the Mayor's Plan For KEXP at Seattle Center
An artist rendering of KEXP's planned space at Seattle Center.Two months ago Reverb columnist/Long Winters frontman John Roderick took to the blog to plot out what the mayor's decision regarding KEXP's bid for Seattle Center's Fun Forest space would say about the kind of city he envisioned Se ... More >>
News
December 22, 2010
Return to Sender
What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?
News
January 5, 2011
McGinn Goes Bass Fishing
The mayor's proposed noise rules may ruffle music-loving minorities.
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January 7, 2011
Rep. Jay Inslee on Reading the Constitution: We Haven't Been Able to Review It Yet (VIDEO)
The new Republican-infused Congress wants to prove once and for all that despite their previous talk about removing birthright citizenship, direct election of Senators, and the government's ability to regulate the economy from the U.S. Constitution, they actually love the treasured document w ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
Poll: Which MLK Day Press Release Doesn't Belong?
Today's holiday honoring the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. isn't a day off for everyone. Some people embrace the spirit of the occasion by doing community service, while others are still stuck behind a desk at their day jobs. For media-relations professionals, it's one of the busiest ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
Alan Gottlieb, Bellevue Gun Nut, Finds Exploiting Tucson Tragedy 'Unconscionable' . . . Unless It's His Group Doing It
GottliebThat was fast. Save for a few TV talking heads, chatter about new gun controls has faded away just a week after the anti-gun rage over Jared Loughner's extended-cartridge Glock 19. Duke professor Philip Cook told Salon it's likely because "Those who favor a modicum of gun regulation a ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Mayor Mike's Office Raps Former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay, Accuses Him of Calling Police Chief 'A Liar on the Front Page of the Paper'
Mike McKayThe mayor's office obviously wasn't happy last week when former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay told the Seattle Times he thinks the Department of Justice should fully investigate the Seattle Police Department. Though Mike McGinn says he welcomes such a probe, he and his staff didn't parti ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
Mike McGinn to Lawyer: Who You Callin' a Liar?
The e-mail spat between the mayor's office and a former U.S. attorney.
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February 3, 2011
Mike McGinn Proposes to Double the City's Education Funding; Is He Also After More Control?
Every mayor wants to be the "education mayor," just as every governor wants to be the hero who will save the public schools. So perhaps it's no surprise, even in this time of government austerity, that Mayor Mike McGinn is seeking to double the amount of city funding for schools in a renewed ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray is Least Obstructionist Senator in Washington
Actually, she's tied with 15 other senators as having filibustered the fewest amount of times in the last two years. But who knows, after next year she could be part of a minority party and then it'll be obstruction-fest 2013!
News
February 9, 2011
Mike McGinn: Education Mayor?
Is McGinn's levy a play for more money, more control, or both?
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February 23, 2011
Ask a Mexican!
Is McGinn's levy a play for more money, more control, or both?
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March 24, 2011
Matt Richardson, GOP's Missing Bad Boy, Tossed from His Sumner City Council Seat
Two years ago he ran for mayor of Sumner and lost. One year ago he ran for the state senate--in a mud-slinging blowout with Pam Roach--and lost. Now this will be remembered as the year Matt Richardson lost his Sumner council seat, if not his political career altogether. The pol who was portra ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
Kix: Kid Tested, Atomic Mutant Approved
Cereal Philanderer is a weekly feature in which Jason Sheehan talks about cereal more than he probably should. Cereal du Jour: Kix, America's Favorite Cold War breakfast treat! History: There is nothing at all interesting about the history of Kix. No, seriously--nothing. It's background inf ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Mike McGinn Upgrades His Spokesperson for $20,000 Extra, While Budget-Wide Cuts Are Ordered Elsewhere
It's out with the old and in with the new for Mayor Mike McGinn's chief spokesperson. Longtime mouthpiece Mark Matassa is leaving the mayor's inner circle to go to work for the Seattle Public Utilities Department. Replacing him is current Seattle Channel General Manager Beth Hester. So what c ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
Ask a Mexican!
It's out with the old and in with the new for Mayor Mike McGinn's chief spokesperson. Longtime mouthpiece Mark Matassa is leaving the mayor's inner circle to go to work for the Seattle Public Utilities Department. Replacing him is current Seattle Channel General Manager Beth Hester. So what c ... More >>
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May 24, 2011
Jeanne Kohl-Welles: Failed Medical Pot Bill "The Greatest Disappointment of My Legislative Career"
State Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, the driving force behind the push to overhaul Washington's murky medical pot policies, announced this morning that she has "decided not to pursue further attempts this year to strengthen our state's voter-approved medical marijuana law."
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May 25, 2011
Medical Marijuana Follies: Steve Sarich Finds that Even Filing a Referendum is a Messy Business
It seems a fitting indication of how messed up the medical marijuana landscape has become that even a referendum filed yesterday on Senate Bill 5073--a once liberalizing piece of legislation that was utterly transformed by the governor's red pen--says the opposite of what was intended. Dispen ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Tea Party Patriots Want Idaho's Uber-Christian Take on the Constitution Taught to Kids Nationwide
Constitution Week may be four months away, but it's never too early to try and hone the indoctrination message that the nationwide event will hammer into America's children. First out of the gate are the Tea Party Patriots. The Georgia-based conservative group doesn't want just any Constituti ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Politico: Rob McKenna to Announce Gubernatorial Campaign Tomorrow
Washington State Attorney General and (thus far) dick-Tweet-free politician Rob McKenna will officially announce his candidacy for governor tomorrow. We know. We can hardly contain ourselves either.
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June 9, 2011
WA Department of Health Denies Request to Change Marijuana's Status As Schedule I Drug; Activists Threaten Lawsuit
Steve Sarich is fuming.For the fifth consecutive year, Washington's Board of Pharmacy has denied a petition to reconsider marijuana's status as a Schedule I controlled substance. Under the current state classification, marijuana has no "accepted medical use" and "lacks accepted safety for use ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Patty Murray's Afghan Question to Robert Gates: What About the Human Cost of War?
BarrettMost of the testimony on defense spending yesterday at the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing in D.C. focused on Barack Obama's planned 2012 Afghanistan war drawdown, particularly the timing and politics of ending a war we can't win. For some, withdrawal can't come too ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Gil Kerlikowske, Federal Drug Czar and Former Seattle Police Chief, Makes Up Fake Numbers in Call to Escalate Drug War
Speaking at the ninth annual U.S./Mexico Drug Demand Reduction Conference in Washington D.C. this week, White House Drug Czar and former Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske made it clear that he thinks the failed War on Drugs is not only successful, but should be escalated. In arguing for m ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
AP: Jay Inslee to Finally Announce Campaign for Governor; Sonntag "Still Mulling"
The gubernatorial match-up everyone knew was coming, but which hadn't actually fully materialized, has finally done so.
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June 28, 2011
Washington State Legislators: We Have Enough Votes in the House to Pass Same-Sex Marriage Today
State Rep. Jim Moeller says he's "never been more optimistic" about getting a same-sex marriage law passed in Washington state.
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July 19, 2011
Anti-Nuke Group Fights "Manhattan Project" National Park Plan for Hanford, Other Nuclear Sites, Because It "Glorifies Bombs"
Greg Mello, the leader of the anti-nuke organization the Los Alamos Study Group, says that national parks are great--just not at places where nuclear weapons were developed.
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August 11, 2011
Rob McKenna Crows about Warchest, But Rival Jay Inslee Is Similarly Loaded
Rob McKenna announced yesterday that he has raised more than $1 million in the two months since he declared his intention to run for governor. The Republican attorney general is a viable candidate, no doubt about it. And, as the Democrats like to note, he's fond of press releases. One thing t ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
'Tea Party for Idiots': Terresa Hobbs Explains Who the A**es Are (Surley Not the B***ers!)
The Code of Conduct for the Whidbey Island Tea Party Patriots cautions its members not to start fights with opponents, although "If you choose to get close to them physically, do so in friendship as fellow Americans only." Likewise, "Do not offer lewd gestures, call people names, tell them to ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Comment of the Week: Tea Bagging Is Not Just for the Gays
This week the great Rick Anderson told you about Whidbey Tea Party organizer Terresa Hobbs and the open letter she posted to Sound Publishing. The letter berates SP and others about how they supposedly know nothing about the Tea Party and its members. It also details Hobbs' claim that she h ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Rick Perry: Miracle Faker
Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.
Blogs
October 26, 2011
PETA Sues SeaWorld for 'Enslaving' Whales, Citing 13th Amendment That Ended Black Slavery
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." So says the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. And according to PETA, that ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Seattle Gun Ban Challenge Moves to Olympia, Where Pro-Gunners Predict Another Victory
GottliebWith release of a state Appeals Court ruling this week, gun-rights activists have, as expected, won their legal battle to knock down Seattle's ban on carrying guns in city parks. And as expected they're crowing about it. "We told former Mayor Greg Nickels he was wrong," says Alan Gott ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Sen. Patty Murray's Staff Retreat Brought to You by Your Local Lobbying Firm
I just checked and "tone deaf" is two words, not one. I just want to make sure I'm grammatically correct in case I need to reference the aforementioned auditory condition.
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November 28, 2011
'Occupy the Capitol' Demonstrators Urge State to Repeal Tax Exemptions of the 1 Percenters
Occupy the Capitol protesters officially kick off events today with speeches and demonstrations in Olympia and what will be, for the first time, a concerted public effort to force legislators to tap into that sacrosanct $15 billion worth of corporate tax exemptions doled out over the years ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
Just How Competitive Is Washington's Governor's Race?
There was a time late last year when Washington's governor's race was considered "the most competitive" contest in the nation. Not any longer, according to Politico's final 2011 gubernatorial ranking. And that's due to state Attorney General Rob McKenna, who Politico writes, has the "genuine ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Jay Inslee Is Losing the Money Race to Rob McKenna
From the outset of the campaign, U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee has lagged behind state Attorney General Rob McKenna in the polls. He's also finding McKenna to be formidable fundraiser. In fact, since the gubernatorial combatants began raising money last June, McKenna has generated $560,000 more than h ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Howard Schultz Won't Give to Politicians, While Starbucks Shells Out $860K to Influence Them
SchultzThe pledge by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to no longer contribute to presidential or congressional campaigns drew a lot of sympathetic publicly for him and his corporation last year. But while Schultz's money boycott was aimed at persuading pols to tackle the deficit, his company was ... More >>
News
February 1, 2012
Howard Schultz's Broken Promise
How Starbucks' campaign cash is making its CEO look bad.
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February 3, 2012
Gay Marriage Opponents Bank on Referendums To Stop It -- But Is That Wishful Thinking?
The gay marriage opposition led by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) believe that the best course of action in derailing same-sex weddings is to mobilize like-minded detractors, fund expensive ad campaigns, and fight like hell to get the issue on the ballot -- here in Washington an ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Breaking News: California's Gay-Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional
A three-member panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional. The federal court said the state cannot prevent gay couples from marrying just because a majority of voters said so. The 2-1 decision is a huge victory for gay-ri ... More >>
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