State Sen. Michael Baumgartner, the Republican challenger to U. S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, raised $188,000 during the first quartter, about 15 percent of the campaign contributions Cantwell collected during the same period. Baumgartner's small haul -- alo... »
A decade ago, Rob McKenna was dropped from the Sound Transit governing board by Chairman Ron Sims,after McKenna criticized runaway costs and estimating blunders in the regional light-rail program. Now that he's running for governor, the Bellevue Republ... »
State Sen. Jim Kastama, D-Puyallup, says there's nothing Senate Democrats can do to convince him to vote for their budget. The buzz in Olympia this week has been about Senate Democrats trying to peel Kastama away from Republicans to pass their own budg... »
Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, says she joined Republicans to seize control of the state Senate on Friday and pass a GOP budget partly in return for being allowed to rejoin the caucus. "I was the 25th vote, and my caucus finally did the right thing," Roach ... »
The King County Republican Party says it has received multiple reports of robo calls to voters falsely claiming the Saturday caucuses have been delayed a week. Lisa Shin, executive director of the King County GOP, said the calls came in Friday evening ... »
Attendees of a Bellevue fundraiser featuring GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney got an earful from Occupy Seattle protesters gathered outside the event Thursday night.About 150 protesters stationed themselves outside Romney's private fundraiser at ... »
Updated If anything drives the Legislature into special session this year, it would likely be gridlock in the state Senate. House Democrats successfully passed their proposed budget on Wednesday, but there's a question mark when it comes to the Senate.... »
U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert on Thursday opened a new district office in Issaquah, a relocation from Mercer Island prompted by his 8th Congressional District's eastward shift under congressional redistricting. Reichert, a Republican from Auburn, has six sta... »
Ron Paul hasn't yet won a state in the Republican Party's 2012 presidential contest, but his dedicated fans in Washington state are working overtime to deliver him a victory in Saturday's caucuses. A visit to his Bellevue campaign headquarters Wednesda... »
President Obama will visit the Boeing plant in Everett on Friday as part of his trip to the Seattle area. Obama will discuss the economy, manufacturing and the importance of promoting American exports, a White House official said. The president also pl... »
Updated at 2:28 p.m. with comments from Tim Ceis Washington's political maps for the 2012 elections may not be settled after all. The Washington State Redistricting Commission agreed on new legislative and congressional districts in January. Their work... »
King County government and the Oakland A's baseball team -- that's a comparison we hadn't heard before. But in his state of the county speech Monday, King County Executive Dow Constantine made that connection, saying he had just seen Moneyball, the Osc... »
Courtesy of Ron Paul campaign A Ron Paul volunteer works near window broken by a thrown rock Sunday. Someone threw a rock through the window of Republican Ron Paul's Washington state presidential campaign headquarters over the weekend. The incident hap... »
State Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Bellevue, has introduced legislation to boost the state cigarette tax by $1 per pack. Tom's proposal joins a variety of tax and fee proposals being floated this session, including Gov. Chris Gregoire's push to send voters a hal... »
One of the most significant results of Washington's just concluded redistricting process was the creation of a congressional district that will, for the first time, be made of a majority of people of color. But while some minority activists had hoped t... »
