Paul Queary, a veteran AP reporter and editor, is founder of The Washington Observer, an independent newsletter on politics, government and the influence thereof in Washington State.
While the leadership aspirations of April Berg, (D-Mill Creek), had been widely rumored Berg jokingly blamed us for the current kerfuffle), Laurie Jinkins dragging them out pulls a contest that at least nominally won’t happen until late in the year into the present.
That moderate caucus is dwindling for a reason. The Trump era has emboldened progressives to pick off or push out more centrist members because, as Springer said, “the further left you are, the better you look” as a foil to President Trump.
There may never be a better year for income-tax proponents to win this fight with the voters. The second Trump midterm election figures to pull pro-tax progressives to the polls in droves, while conservative voters might check out.
When the governor attempted to pivot to the right last year, the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate were simply too large to engineer the kind of bipartisan budget compromise he was floating.
A large, hard-to-trace donation comes from Washington Rising, which isn’t registered as a political committee with the Public Disclosure Committee, nor did we find it listed in the Secretary of State’s data on Washington corporations and charities.
A new infusion of $103,000 in support of Mayor Bruce Harrell brings the PAC’s spending on the mayor's race to $1.3 million overall, nearly all of which went to try to scrub new-candidate shine off Wilson.
Ports, especially major ports such as Tacoma, are often hot arenas for a variety of political fights on issues ranging from labor rights to environmental protection.
Will the Harrell side’s attack work? Harrell finished 18,000 votes behind in the primary, and the bettors on the prediction market Kalshi still peg Katie Wilson as a prohibitive favorite.