Dino Rossi’s critique of US Sen. Patty Murray’s knack for scoring earmarks just got trickier.
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Dino Rossi’s critique of US Sen. Patty Murray’s knack for scoring earmarks just got trickier.
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THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH A RESPONSE FROM THE MURRAY CAMPAIGN. As the official combat mission comes to an end in Iraq, Republicans call on Murray to “apologize” to troops and Gen. Petraeus and “admit she was wrong” about the Surge.
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Ron Paul has endorsed Tea Partier John Koster for US House, a fact that seems to have gone unnoticed by the press.
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U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee stopped by the PubliCola office last week for an interview. Here’s what he said on Afghanistan: “I believe that it’s more important to have police in Lynnwood, Washington, where they’re laying off 25 percent of their cops than spending $4 billion training police officers in Kabul, Afghanistan.”
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Another secret independent expenditure group comes after Patty Murray with an attack ad. No wonder she supports the DISCLOSE Act.
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U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA, 1) stopped by the Cola offices today for a sprawling discussion about the election results, net neutrality, the war in Afghanistan, the recession, earmarks, and more.
More »The Seattle Times busts the Rossi campaign for playing fast and loose with Sen. Murray’s voting record.
More »A Cola reader wants to know: Why didn’t Gov. Gregoire show up to greet President Obama?
More »Tacoma News Tribune reporter Jordan Schrader—an “On Other Blogs Today” regular—has got the best tweeting going from the President Obama press pool. We’ll be tweeting later when we hook up with the press for the President’s departure at Boeing field.
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PubliCola reader Karen Hedberg wins a pair of tickets to Bumbershoot for her touching essay about Vietnam and all that sad 1970s stuff.
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Don’t blame me: Josh wrote today’s Morning Fizz item predicting that Republican David Castillo will beat out Republican Jaime Herrera in the 3rd Congressional District.
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THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH COMMENTS FROM THE MURRAY CAMPAIGN.
“Bringing home the bacon,” once the hallmark of a popular legislator, is now—known derisively as an earmark—a bad thing.
Sen. Murray promotes small business lending bill. Rossi campaign calls it “Baby TARP.”
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PubliCola changed the subject of the press conference today, asking Sen. Cantwell what was up with the climate change bill.
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