Republicans in Washington State do not yet have a declared candidate to challenge U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell next year, but the list of potential contenders continues to grow. State Senator Michael Baumgartner (R-Spokane) is testing the waters now with the possible formation of an exploratory committee reported yesterday by NW Daily Marker. Though Baumgartner has only been in public office
The smoke-and-mirrors attempt by Pres. Barack Obama to make it seem as though all 43 presidents before him – including Pres. Ronald Reagan – are crawling from their graves to stand in his corner in the debt ceiling debate would be great satire if it were not actually happening. Like clipping letters from magazines to paste together a ransom note,
A major shakeup is happening in Olympia as four long-time staffers to the House Republican Caucus were let go Tuesday in a mid-session personnel decision, according to a Republican insider speaking to NW Daily Marker. According to the same source, the personnel released were among communications staff and groups working on budget, education, and agriculture/environment issues, and the reason given
Today, Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah, US envoy to China, and well-traveled Mormon missionary, will officially declare his candidacy for President after months of “will he, won’t he” speculation stretching from Washington, D.C. to Beijing, China. Long before his announcement today, a possible Huntsman candidacy has gained plenty of traction – and plenty of detractors. The first talking
Filling one more spot on what Republicans hope will be a dream team for 2012, King County Councilman and former federal prosecutor Reagan Dunn announced his candidacy for state attorney general in a released statement Tuesday morning. In his reasons for running, Dunn carried forward the message delivered by current Attorney General Rob McKenna gubernatorial announcement speech last Wednesday, a
It was not long ago that Latino voters viewed Republicans as the party of immigration. Really, it wasn’t that long ago. Arnold Schwarzenegger earned fully a third of the Latino vote in California’s gubernatorial recall election in 2003 – and his opponent was a high-ranking elected Latino, Democrat lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante. In 2004, President George W. Bush drew 40
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna formally announced his candidacy Wednesday in the 2012 race to be Washington’s next governor, speaking to hundreds in attendance in the theater of a Bellevue high school. The McKenna campaign broadcast Wednesday’s live announcement from their Facebook page and posted a YouTube video in which McKenna criticized the lack of “strong and decisive leadership
