All Politics is Local
Scott Campbell gets endorsement from former rivals
Scott Campbell, a candidate for Vancouver City Council who is unrelated to Columbian Publisher Scott Campbell, emerged from this month’s primary election with 55 percent of the vote to advance to the general election where he’ll face political newcomer Maureen McGoldrick. Now, it looks like he’s getting some support from former rivals. According to a […]
August 17, 2017 10:06 am
A Handmaid’s Protest in downtown Vancouver
It’s become fairly routine for progressive activists to gather outside of the district offices of Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler, R- Battle Ground. This week they again got together to protest the congresswoman, but this time they time they wore topical costumes. Tuesday morning, protesters gathered outside of Herrera Beutler’s downtown Vancouver office with a handful […]
August 16, 2017 3:06 pm
“Ghost voters” in Clark County? Who ya gonna call?
A national conservative magazine is suggesting that Clark County’s voter rolls are haunted and need to be exorcised. But Clark County’s top election official says his office has them in check. The conservative news magazine National Review published an article Friday about the supposedly large number of “ghost voters” –names on voter rolls that can’t […]
August 14, 2017 3:51 pm
Topper selected as property tax manager in Clark County
Alishia Topper is expanding her duties to the county government level. Selected by Doug Lasher, treasurer of Clark County, Topper will be the next tax services manager for the county. She’ll be in charge of the collecting of $605 million in property taxes, and she’ll manage 13 employees. Here’s the press release announcing the decision: Vancouver, Wash. […]
August 11, 2017 4:30 pm
Local GOP election observers too busy to make sure election isn’t rigged
Clark County voters mostly sat out last week’s primary election with only about 20 percent of registered voters bothering to turn in their ballots. And when it came to making sure those ballots were counted properly, one political party was completely absent. Every election, Clark County Elections invites trained and certified observers from both political […]
August 9, 2017 11:13 am
All precincts agree
All of Vancouver’s precincts agree on who should be the next mayor. The precinct-specific votes show overwhelming support for mayoral candidate Anne McEnerny-Oge, and also city councilor candidates Scott Campbell and Linda Glover. The results as of Wednesday show McEnerny-Ogle and Campbell won all 93 precincts, and Glover lost only one precinct to opponent Michelle […]
August 2, 2017 5:35 pm
Rivers won’t be doing work for Strategies 360 after all
With the Washington Legislature having finally finished its work, lawmakers have returned home to resume day jobs they’ve somehow managed to keep while being in Olympia for such long stretches of time. Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, won’t be starting the gig she had planned on starting after the Legislature adjourned. Rivers was slated to […]
July 31, 2017 12:00 pm
Herrera Beutler supports border wall, noncommittal on transgender troop ban
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a $788 billion defense spending bill. In addition to giving the Pentagon a boost in funding, the bill has money for veterans programs and, more controversially, a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump’s border wall with Mexico. Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, voted for […]
July 28, 2017 4:04 pm
Clark County gets a new deputy manager
As of yesterday, Bob Stevens has one less hat to wear. Stevens is the county’s director of General Services and in 2015 was appointed as the first ever deputy county manager under the Clark County Home Rule Charter. Under the charter, the county manager must designate a “qualified” county employee as his or her deputy […]
July 27, 2017 3:35 pm
First ballot count for primary election
On Friday, the Washington Elections Division released the first numbers on returned ballots for the primary election, which ends August 1. So far, 12,097 of Clark County’s voters or 4.9 percent have cast their ballots. At the state level, that number is at 222,551 or 5.8 percent. The county has 245,560 registered voters while the […]
July 21, 2017 6:12 pm