U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s campaign kickoff for re-election, which featured House Speaker John Boehner as a guest speaker, brought in about $50,000, Herrera Beutler’s spokesman reported on Wednesday morning. When I wrote the story about the Camas Republican’s fundraiser,…
With about two weeks into election season, many legislative candidates from Clark County are celebrating their endorsements. This is in addition to endorsements many of them received heading into filing week, which began on May 14. State Rep. Tim Probst,…
Here’s how area senators voted on major issues in the week ending May 25. The House was in recess. Take note of how the Senate voted on the Democratic and Republican plans for keeping some student loan interest rates low.…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna recently penned an op-ed piece for Huffington Post that calls out the Lifetime Television channel’s hit television show “The Client List” for glorifying prostitution. “This portrayal of prostitution as rewarding and honorable is a stark…
Today’s members of Congress speak, on average, at about a 10th-grade reading level, according to a recent study that matches the Flesch-Kincaid readability test to what Congress says according to the Congressional Record. In 2005, Congress spoke at an 11th-grade…
A shift of power fueled in part by the Tea Party movement placed 87 new Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 elections. This month, Club for Growth released a report on how well those new Republicans…
As several entries of Saturday’s Parade of Bands donned wigs and colorful outfits and rode on elaborate floats, we at The Columbian were curious what the two gubernatorial candidates would do. Rob McKenna and Jay Inslee had announced before the…
Of more than three dozen local candidates who have filed for office this week, only state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, thought to send out a press release that included a photograph of him filling out paperwork at the county election…
What do U.S. Rep. John Boehner, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and outgoing state Sen. Lisa Brown have in common? No, this isn’t the beginning of a bad joke. They are some of the better known politicians who’ve visited or plan…
Vancouver purchasing agent Mike Appel announced on Monday evening that he will no longer seek election to the 17th Legislative District seat held by Rep. Tim Probst, D-Vancouver. Appel, who describes himself as an “independent conservative Republican with a bit…
