The 2008 Washington legislative session hasn't even reached the halfway mark. But it's not too early to look to the 2009 session. Majority Democrats are taking a slow-and-careful approach to this election year session. Republicans - less charitably - call it "punting." So what's being kicked to nex
Updated: Oops. Barack Obama's campaign for president in Washington is recovering from an embarrassing slip-up. Thursday, the campaign made Get Out The Caucus (GOTC) calls to an undisclosed number of voters. This is what the calls said:
A few weeks ago, I reported that minority Republicans in Olympia were spinning election-year conspiracy theories. Why? Because Gov. Chris Gregoire's budget office has stopped producing six-year budget outlooks [/washington-agencies/10817/]. Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, predicted a long-term outl
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire's budget office has robbed Republicans of a key piece of information they use to beat up on the governor. The Office of Financial Management [http://www.ofm.wa.gov/] (OFM) has stopped producing six-year budget outlooks. Instead, it's only producing four-year forecasts.
That's the margin of victory of Gov. Chris Gregoire over Republican Dino Rossi in 2004. With a rematch looming and a 60-day legislative session beginning today, Democrats in charge in Olympia must stick to a very prudent agenda.
