As former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney continues to push forward toward a possible win of the Republican presidential nomination – riding on concurrent double-digit victories in this week’s Florida primary and Nevada caucuses—all politicians not named Romney are preparing for “the question.” The query from the political beat reporters has many variations, but goes something like this: “If asked, would

When this week began, three Republicans were in the race for the 1st Congressional District seat. Yesterday, the field narrowed to two, and a Friday evening announcement from another Republican means that Snohomish County Councilman John Koster is riding solo against a pack of Democratic hopefuls. Greg Anders was the first Republican to withdraw on Thursday. Today, James Watkins spent

On Tuesday evening, Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R, WA-5) issued a direct response to Pres. Barack Obama’s 2012 State of Union address, restating her commitment to working with the White House and others in Congress but questioning whether Obama’s proposals constituted little more than an effort to recycle ideas that have already produced a record of failure for his administration.

For the third year, Republicans from across Washington State will meet in Ocean Shores, Wash. for the Roanoke Conference (January 27th-29th, Ocean Shores Convention Center). The three-day paid conference – an intentional mashup of a working weekend and social gathering – will feature many highlights, including the annual conference dinner Saturday evening and a keynote address from incisive conservative columnist

If dictionaries catered to all of our senses you would look up “redistricting” to see a picture of pillow, smell the aroma of warm milk, and hear the white noise of gently lapping ocean waves on the beach. To put it another way, it’s not a scintillating topic for those fortunate enough not to be obsessed with politics. Even to

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,

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