With the race down to its final push, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee’s campaign is running on financial fumes. According to filings with the Public Disclosure Commission, Inslee had a negative account balance of about $50,000 as of Monday. Campaign spokesman Sterling Clifford told the Seattle Times on Wednesday that the campaign still has...
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Gov. Christine Gregoire’s scheme to trade two-term incumbent Cheryl Pflug her seat in the Senate for a lucrative position on a state board continued to unravel on Monday as a moderate Senate Democrat revealed that he knew Pflug wouldn’t seek re-election a week and a half before she made her plans public. Sen. Rodney...
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Same-sex marriage supporters, even while accusing those on the other side of the issue hate and intolerance, have increasingly turned to intimidation — and even violence – just a week before the state will vote on Referendum 74. According to Preserve Marriage Washington, which sponsored the ballot initiative in an effort to repeal a...
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Washington State Republican Party Chairman Kirby Wilbur renewed his call on Friday for Democratic candidates and the State Democratic Party to return the donations made by cult leader J.Z. Knight after the release new videos filled with hateful remarks, this time directed towards Mexicans, Catholics, and gay men. “In these latest tirades, Knight continues...
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By ANNA DUFF for The Olympia Report Representatives of several types of junior taxing districts in Washington, concerned over revenues lost as local property tax collections shrink, trekked to Olympia on Thursday to discuss how their services would be affected if the Legislature allowed them to be subsumed into their local governments. Washington has...
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Backers of Washington’s new same-sex law who assumed it would be easy to defeat a ballot measure meant to overturn it may want to count their chickens again. According to an Elway Research poll released on Wednesday, support for Referendum 74 has dropped to less 50 percent, and the margin has dwindled to only...
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Sen. Doug Ericksen announced on Monday he will introduce legislation restricting the method by which the governor appoints sitting lawmakers to paid boards or commissions. The prohibition would apply to legislators whose term ends the following year and would run from one month before the filing date for office to a month after the general...
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Authorities from the Washington State Department of Employment Security are probing charges that employees working for J.Z. Knight‘s Yelm-based Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment (JZK, Inc.) were routinely coerced to work for free while drawing unemployment benefits from the state. Karri Konga, former Knight employee, has sent an affidavit discussing the employment fraud, alleging that, ...
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By ANNA DUFF For The Olympia Report As Washington voters get ready to decide on Initiative-502 – a measure that would legalize the use of marijuana in the state, as well as set up a state-controlled system of growing and distribution – they’ve found some surprising proponents of the initiative. Among them, a former...
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With the mailing of ballots this week, the election has already started in Washington state. By ANNA DUFF For The Olympia Report Voting in Washington state’s 2012 general election has officially begun, as millions of ballots for the upcoming Nov. 6 contest will land in their mailboxes as early as today. The state’s first...
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