Political Beat

State Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, has a new campaign headquarters -- in Tumwater -- and he's hired a new press secretary in his bid to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty […]

Democrat Denny Heck has scored the first major labor endorsement in the 3rd Congressional District race. The Olympia entrepreneur's campaign announced Thursday that Heck has been endorsed by Local […]

Local politico (and regular Political Beat commenter) Lew Waters has an especially interesting post this morning about rumors of a Paulista "takeover" of the local GOP: "As scuttlebutt has it, a […]

Yesterday's post about Commissioner Steve Stuart's impressive fundraising had us wondering who Stuart might be so worried about. So I called local Republican Party Chairman Ryan Hart to ask. Here's what Hart […]

Commissioner Steve Stuart (D) doesn't even have an opponent yet, and he's already got more money for his 2010 re-election than Jeanne Harris (D) raised in her entire 2008 commissioner […]

Cheryl Crist, an Olympia Democrat who is making her third run for the 3rd Congressional District seat, has called for an end to burning coal at the TransAlta coal plant […]

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray joined 29 other senators Monday in committing to support a public option if it is brought up as part of an attempt to pass a health […]

Politico blogger Liz Mair reports, and a spokesman for 3rd District congressional candidate David Castillo confirms, that Castillo launched a robocall campaign against a fellow Republican, state Rep. Jaime Herrera, […]

If you listen hard, you can hear Clark County's invisible primary cranking up. It sounds a little like the uphill trip on a roller coaster. Now's the time of year when […]

A new poll sponsored by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee shows the 3rd Congressional District may be more disposed to a single-payer plan as part of health care reform than […]