Seattle gets a $1 million campaign: It’s promoting an ‘honest elections’...
Initiative 122, an “honest elections” ballot measure designed to make property owners pay for Seattle campaigns, has itself broken city spending campaigns by raising a whopping $1.134 million campaign...
View ArticleOnly in Seattle: $1.3 million campaign warns of “unfettered influence” of...
Only in Seattle’s increasingly ideology-influenced, we’re good-they’re bad political culture would Monday’s e-mail blast from Honest Elections Seattle seem commonplace. The campaign for Initiative 122,...
View ArticleBig spenders become the biggest complainers in Seattle’s 2015 election
The campaign for Seattle’s record $930 million Let’s Move Seattle property levy has discovered a pre-Halloween devil figure and is spending its energy Wednesday putting a pointed hat on Aurora Avenue...
View ArticleOil, coal and legislative control: Election races to watch on Tuesday
The fossil fuel economy is being characterized as a fossil by everyone from Pope Francis to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund but has its sights on the state of Washington — big time. Two elections at...
View Article“Honest Elections”— dishonest tactics? I-122 mailing looks like government...
“OFFICIAL VOTING RECORD” said the quasi-official title across the top of the mailing, but it did not come from any agency of government. Instead, the hard-sell, somewhat deceptive mailing came from...
View ArticleGov. Inslee has raised $2.9 million but pleads that challenger Bill Bryant is...
Gov. Jay Inslee is Washington’s master at wolfing down campaign donations while warning that the wolf is at the door. The governor, who has raised $2.9 million for his 2016 campaign at events from...
View ArticleInvestigate ExxonMobil, state’s activist groups ask Attorney General Bob...
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson should join his New York counterpart in investigating whether ExxonMobil deceived its shareholders and stockholders after the oil giant’s researchers caught...
View ArticleMurray, Cantwell boost Clinton’s presidential campaign; where was Elizabeth...
Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., as they did in 2008, turned out to boost the presidential campaign of former U.S. Senate colleague Hillary Clinton at a Monday night Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleErsatz outrage: How parties and politicians use petitions to hook you
Asking gullible people to sign petitions is the new rage, and a source of ersatz outrage, in the world of political fundraising. The petitions are a calculating device to persuade citizens to provide...
View ArticleThe Sanders campaign ‘Berns’ a presidential fundraising record with 2.3...
The presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders has “Berned” a major fundraising record for White House hopefuls, reporting that it passed the mark of 2.3 million contributions during Saturday night’s...
View ArticleA year end rush for contributions, from Sen. Patty Murray to pastor Mark...
Presidents, politicians, preachers, even opponents of unisex bathrooms are appealing for money as 2015 comes to a close, encouraging donations before the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve. “We...
View ArticleInitiative aims to ask Washington voters: Should we treat corporations as...
Backers of a statewide initiative calling for a rollback of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which blew away all limits on political spending, on Wednesday submitted 330,000...
View ArticleBill Clinton visits Seattle on Friday for Hillary Clinton and another...
Ex-President Bill Clinton will speak at a Hillary-Clinton-for-president fundraiser on Friday at the Century Ballroom on Capitol Hill, the latest in a cycle of private Clinton money events. The 42nd...
View ArticleSen. Patty Murray, onetime ‘Mom in Tennis Shoes.’ starts 2016 with $5.95...
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, running as a “Mom in Tennis Shoes,” spent just $1.2 million in 1992 to win her Senate seat and was outspent two-to-one by Republican opponent Rod Chandler. As she seeks...
View ArticleJudge will rule Thursday on Tim Eyman’s ‘gun to the head’ initiative
After hearing arguments Tuesday and spending a weekend studying briefs, King County Superior Court Judge William Downing will rule Thursday on the legality of Tim Eyman’s “gun to the head” initiative,...
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