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Representative Mike Hope’s Latest TV Ad!
Representative Mike Hope talks about the Constitutional Amendment he sponsored after the murders of four Lakewood police officers earlier this year.
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Results of I-960 Survery
The Washington state legislature and the governor have suspended Initiative 960, which required two-thirds of lawmakers vote yes in order to raise taxes. Was suspending Initiative 960 the right thing to do? Or the wrong thing to do?
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Drawing the battle lines for November election
Legislative heavies hogged the spotlight during three months of budget wrangling in Olympia. As the session gives way to campaign season, all eyes will be on a different group of Democrats: those from swing districts.
Some helped their majority party raise taxes and cut programs to deal with a $2.8 billion budget [...]
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Washington Legislature poised to suspend voter-approved I-960 tax restraint law
he voter’s shield against runaway government spending by the State of Washington, Initiative 960 is perilously close to temporarily losing its most crucial piece, the requirement that the state Legislature pass a two-thirds vote for measures to increase taxes.
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GOP beats only statehouse Dem in rural E. Wash.
The Legislature's minority Republicans scored a key moral victory Tuesday with a lopsided defeat of the only statehouse Democrat from largely conservative rural Eastern Washington. Republican challenger Terry Nealey was easily outpolling Rep. Laura Grant, D-Walla Walla, in the race for the 16th Legislative District, which includes the cities of Pasco and Walla Walla.
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Laura Grant defends transportation project votes
Lara Grant supported a $2.4 billion tunnel for Seattle while voting down funding to repair Highway 12, which connects Walla Walla and the Tri-Cities.
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Terry Nealey
Terry Nealey is a fiscal conservative committed to utilizing his leadership and consensus-building skills to represent you in Olympia.
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New 15th District Rep. David Taylor scores a bull's-eye
OLYMPIA, Wash. — New state Rep. David Taylor was once kicked in the head by a bull.
While that’s no more than a sensational detail in the 37-year-old Moxee Republican’s story, it speaks to the way Taylor grew up and the forces that shaped his political beliefs. His is an Ellensburg story, and in Ellensburg stories [...]
Newhouse appointment bright spot for agriculture
Gov. Chris Gregoire did something great for farmers: she appointed Rep. Dan Newhouse, a third-generation Sunnyside farmer, as the director of the state Department of Agriculture. Newhouse is a Republican, making him her first GOP appointment to Gregoire's Cabinet in two terms.
Moxee man appointed 15th District representative
All three Yakima County commissioners voted for Taylor. Commissioner Kevin Bouchey agreed that Taylor’s background put him ahead of the other finalists for the open seat.
“His knowledge of water, his knowledge of growth-management issues — those are just key issues to Yakima County,” Bouchey said. “There is no learning curve for him.”
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