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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Svehaug grants interview to CVTV

Republican Alan Svehaug, who is running to unseat Clark County Commissioner Steve Stuart, has been publicly interviewed. A Sept. 14 story in The Columbian, “Clark County commissioner candidate Svehaug largely a no-show so far,” mentioned that Svehaug did not appear

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Bad Timing

Republican congressional candidate Jaime Herrera chose Wednesday to begin airing a new TV ad that attacks the D.C. establishment and portrays her as a hometown girl. “Here in Southwest Washington, we know what they don’t in the other Washington,” Herrera

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Fake news makes Heck campaign release

Think of The Daily ‘Couve as Clark County’s own version of parody publication The Onion. Since February, the site, written by anonymous author(s?), has written daily send ups of local news. “The Daily ‘Couve is a satire, parody, and big

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Friends of Fire Station 6 friends with Bart Hansen

Friends of Fire Station 6, a non-profit political action committee hoping to save the Burton Fire Station, announced Thursday they’ve endorsed Bart Hansen in the Vancouver City Council Race. Fire Station 6, on NE 112th Ave., is scheduled to close

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Harris gets TV money; Stonier clears record with notolls.com

Republican 17th Legislative District candidate Paul Harris announced today that the House Republican Organizing Committee donated $33,900 dollars to his campaign for TV ads to start running in October. The press release said with six weeks until the general election

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Jack Burkman named Olberman's "worst person in world"

Vancouver City Councilor Jack Burkman has been battling a little bad PR of his own this week, when MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olberman named him “the worst person in the world.” Well — not him exactly. It’s really a Republican

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Builders' group supports Republicans, Stuart

The Building Industry Association of Clark County released its full list of endorsements on Tuesday. The BIA’s Board of Directors endorsed all Republicans with the exception of Alan Svehaug, who is running against Clark County Commissioner Steve Stuart. “We are

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Heck, Herrera trade press releases

Republican congressional candidate Jaime Herrera is touting a new endorsement from a business group today, while the Democrats claim her opponent’s polling suggests he is pulling closer to her. Herrera, a state representative from Camas, and Olympia Democrat Denny Heck

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Mielke gives Jenkins endorsement

Clark County Commissioner Tom Mielke endorsed Vancouver City Council candidate John Jenkins late last week. Here’s the full text of the endorsement (not edited): I’ve have known John Jenkins long enough to learn he is a man of great integrity

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Probst one-ups Herrera in frugality rankings

State Rep. Jaime Herrera, Republican candidate for the open 3rd Congressional District seat, has been touting her ranking from the Evergreen Freedom Foundation as a fiscal miser on the campaign trail. Turns out state Rep. Tim Probst, a Democrat representing

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