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posted on
October 1st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

OMG! The Seattle Times Endorses Obama

The Times don't need no stinkin' debates to drink the Obama Kool-Aid one more time (they endorsed him in 2008). Here is their ringing endorsement in the Sunday paper: "Bottom line: Obama's presiden ...

posted on
October 1st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Democrats Admit McKenna Is Who He Says He Is

As I mentioned in a previous post, there's some Democrats out there attacking McKenna, saying he is "not who he says he is." In the first two ads, they just told a bunch of lies about him. But they ...

posted on
September 29th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

The "Truth"

For a long time, I've held the view that if an organization puts "truth" in its name, you should be extremely wary. I started thinking this way back when the anti-tobacco group thetruth.com first c ...

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posted on
September 29th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Poor impacted by closing homeless shelters

Seattle Housing and Resource Effort (SHARE) closed most of their facilities, which include two tent cities and sixteen shelters, which are mostly in churches - in protest. Who are being hurt? The p ...

posted on
September 28th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Race and Politics

In 1990, a little known Tacoma lawyer challenged Justice Keith Callow for his position on the Washington State Supreme Court. Callow was highly qualified and broadly endorsed for re-election. Charl ...

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posted on
September 27th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Have Matt Barreto And David Perez Heard Of Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler?

If so, it's not apparent in their Seattle Times guest column. If the University of Washington professor and the Perkins Coie lawyer had heard of the congresswoman, a rising star in the Republican p ...

posted on
September 27th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Seattle

Have Matt Barreto And David Perez Heard Of Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler?

If so, it's not apparent in their Seattle Times guest column. If the University of Washington professor and the Perkins Coie lawyer had heard of the congresswoman, a rising star in the Republican p ...

posted on
September 26th, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Perhaps Jay Inslee Is Trying For The Wrong Job

The Washington state Democratic candidate for governor has been telling us that he can pick economic winners. (And even that he has picked economic winners in the past, a claim that seems, at ...

posted on
September 23rd, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Newspaper Apologizes

No, seriously. It does happen occasionally, and the particular circumstances are instructive. The Kirkland Reporter, a weekly newspaper covering the suburb where I live, just published this e ...

posted on
September 21st, 2012
from
Sound Politics
based in
Olympia

Leftwing Desperation Fuels Lies Against McKenna

There's a few ads out there running against Rob McKenna for governor, and bizarrely, every single claim they make is a lie. One, called "Clean Up", shows a guy cleaning his garage and saying McKenn ...