Liz Pike was determined to make the most of an unwanted nomination on Monday, when Clark and Cowlitz county commissioners appointed former state Rep. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, to the Senate. Commissioners decided to take advantage of the situation as…
It sounds a little hokey, but “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” — a project of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia — has predicted the outcome of recent congressional races with impressive results. So what do Larry Sabato and…
Candidate Rae Lowery, running for the 20th District Senate seat, decided to take a different approach to the run-of-the-mill introductory statement during a recent debate hosted by the Thurston County League of Women Voters. She sang. Watch the video here…
Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending June 22. (A little background about why I’m re-posting this roll call report can be found here.) House ENERGY v. ENVIRONMENT: Voting 248 for and 163…
Democrat Craig Pridemore, who has served as a state senator for Clark County’s 49th District since 2005, has two Democrats and one Republican to contend with in the Aug. 7 primary in the race to become Washington’s next state auditor.…
Here’s how area senators voted on major issues in the week ending June 15. The House was in recess. (A little background about why I’m re-posting this roll call report can be found here.) Senate FEDERAL SUGAR PROGRAM: The Senate…
There are about six weeks left until the primary election, and legislative candidates from Clark County are busy trying to bring in more campaign endorsements. Eileen Qutub, a Republican running for state senator of the 49th District, announced that she…
Following Gov. Chris Gregoire’s press conference yesterday about federal aid needed for Japanese tsunami debris cleanup on Washington beaches, one reader asked what Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler has to say on the subject. Herrera Beutler, a Republican U.S. representative from…
When legislative candidates Julie Olson and Monica Stonier faced off in a meeting before The Columbian’s editorial board on Thursday, Olson, a Republican, nearly gave Democratic state Rep. Tim Probst as good a grade as Republican state Sen. Don Benton.…
Ralph Schmidt, the Democratic candidate for the state Senate seat in the 18th District, has raised $2,723 in cash and in-kind campaign contributions. His campaign fundraising report was not available when I wrote my story about how much other candidates…
