Tag Archives: 2020 election
Congressional candidate goes in for the Whigs
Rudy Atencio, a candidate for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District running an unorthodox campaign out of White Salmon, is kicking it old school. Very old school. We’re talking covered wagons, invention of baseball, Gold Rush-era levels of old school. In conjunction with two other candidates seeking federal office, Atencio founded a symbolic National Democratic Whig Caucus […]
Long racks up endorsements from IGV and Planned Parenthood
And now, for the latest installment of EndorsementWatch 2020: Carolyn Long picked up two more endorsements in her bid for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District seat. One came from a local progressive organization, and the other came from a national reproductive rights group. The first declaration of support was from Indivisible Greater Vancouver, who endorsed Long […]
Long says she’d vote to impeach Trump
Carolyn Long, the Democratic frontrunner seeking to represent Washington’s Third Congressional District in 2020, said she would vote to impeach the president. On Wednesday, the day the House of Representatives will vote on two articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abusing his power and obstructing justice, Long released a statement proclaiming the decision was […]
IGV clarifies mission after endorsement dust-up
Remember last week when Peter Khalil, a candidate seeking to become the Democrats’ nominee for Washington’s Third Congressional District, pointedly avoided an endorsement from a local progressive group because he said they aren’t actually progressive? That whole thing is still going on. On Dec. 3 Khalil wrote an open letter saying that he was withdrawing […]
Khalil not seeking IGV endorsement, citing “anti-corruption”
In an open letter posted to his campaign’s Facebook page, Democratic Congressional candidate Peter Khalil said he wouldn’t be seeking an endorsement from Indivisible Greater Vancouver. In the letter, Khalil wrote that “Indivisible Greater Vancouver’s values do not align with the progressive principles espoused by the national Indivisible organization. Rather, it seems that Indivisible Greater […]