2020 election
3 Democrats, 1 independent gain IGV endorsement
The local progressive organization Indivisible Greater Vancouver announced endorsements for candidates seeking county and state offices this week. The group will support four candidates challenging incumbents on the Aug. 4 primary […]
Atencio drops out, leaving two-person race for WA-3
Rudy Atencio -- at turns a Whig, a Democrat, and eventually a self-proclaimed “gay, liberal Republican” -- has dropped out of the race for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. His decision leaves […]
Long on lukewarm young voters: ‘Can you blame them?’
Carolyn Long, the main (scratch that; now she’s the only) Democrat seeking Washington’s 3rd Congressional District seat, told National Public Radio she’s trying to win over unaffiliated voters and energize […]
Bloomberg’s Vancouver office: 13 days, forever in our hearts.
Dearly beloved: We are gathered here today to celebrate the short but illustrious life of the Vancouver campaign office of Michael Bloomberg. The campaign headquarters for the former New York mayor […]
Democratic candidate flips, decides to run for Congress as a ‘liberal gay Republican’
Rudy Atencio, a White Salmon resident who up until very recently was running as a Democrat to represent Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, changed his mind. He’s now running as a “liberal […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]