Candidate filing deadline next week
Candidate filing period Contact Greg Kimsey, Clark County Auditor Phone: (360) 397-2078 Tim Likness, Elections Supervisor Phone: (360) 397-2345 The in-person period to file a Declaration of Candidacy...
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Thinking about Food and Food for Thought
Click below to listen to audio segment of post: Image via Wikipedia Above is an audio segment of The Conversation from KUOW Public Radio up in Puget Sound. The first 41 minutes deals with current food...
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The Benton Apple Falls Not Far From the Money Tree
The race for State Senate in the 17th legislative district will be heating up soon after the general election officially ‘starts’ after the August 19th primary. The primary, designed to produce a...
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Probst Summer Kick-off
Tim Probst You’re invited to help elect a leader we can be proud of as our voice in Olympia! Please join us for the summer kick-off for Tim Probst, Candidate for State Representative, 17th District,...
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91% of Us are Angry Extremists
Letter to the editor today in the Columbian about their misguided dual endorsement of Webb and Baird: Congress needs change Regarding The Columbian’s July 22 endorsement of Democrat Brian Baird and...
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Where Fools Walk In
The name of the political game is money, money, money. What it buys is access and legislation that does not necessarily benefit the people of the district the politician reportedly represents. Here...
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Salins on Wealth and Political Power
Craig Salins Wealth and Political Power The coming federal battle over the right of workers to organize (Employee Free Choice Act) and the Fair Elections Now Act Three days after receiving $25 billion...
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Novoselic Challenging the Top Two Primary System
Voters registered as Independent, Democrat and Republican Sometimes it is hard to tell one political party from the other when you really look at how certain candidates vote and compare that to the...
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Predicting – and preparing for – the future: Health care reform debate in...
Opinion commentary by Craig Salins, July 1, 2009 In political organizing, as in traveling or hiking, it’s always useful to have a compass, and a sense of what’s around the bend – the immediate future....
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Had Enough Yet?
Seemingly endless war Starting war on false pretenses Bailouts for banks that are too big to exist Bailouts for insurance companies disguised as health care reform Massive investor frauds Torturing...
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First Things First
Fixing the campaign finance system is one of the very few ways we can fix our government. And yet most of us spend far too much time and effort complaining about and/or trying to fix what is caused by...
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Overturn Citizens United — Demand Fair Elections and a Fair Economy
Image via Wikipedia Overturn Citizens United — Demand Fair Elections and a Fair Economy by Craig Salins We need a broad movement to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling (January, 2010)....
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Saying NO to Big Money In Politic$
Saying NO to Big Money In Politic$: A Panel Discussion on the First Anniversary of the “Citizen’s United” Decision Join us Friday, January 21, 2011 At the Olympia Center Room A 222. Columbia Street SW...
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