Sorry to be late posting this, but...State Senate candidate Chris Marr denies allegations that he and other managers at a local auto dealership ignored, for years, the sexual harassment of a saleswoman by male colleagues.In a lawsuit filed last year, former Spokane Lincoln-Mercury saleswoman Dawn…
A new website, authored by someone hiding behind a domain registration company's privacy service, points to Rep. Geoff Simpson's family-oriented campaign, particularly a recent family-oriented mailing, then compares it to the contents of Simpson's legal separation file.In an e-mail to us, Simpson, D-Kent, called the…
As the days count down to November's election, Washington's second-most-expensive state Senate race is turning more ferocious.Since Friday, Spokane residents have been opening their mailboxes to find large postcards that maintain that Sen. Brad Benson "voted to cover up sex crimes against our children."The mailer…
If you watched last night's mostly-staid "debate" in the Senate race, you saw three candidates. But it turns out that a fourth was there, if only briefly.While Sen. Maria Cantwell, GOP challenger Mike McGavick and Libertarian Bruce Guthrie staked out their positions in the KING-5…
In what even the state's top election official called a "stunning" statistic, 93 percent of Washingtonians who cast a ballot in last month's primary election voted by mail."Even in the counties maintaining polling locations, 82.8 percent of voters who participated in the primary cast their…
Yesterday brought another deadline for filing data to the Public Disclosure Commission, Washington's campaign-finance agency.We haven't found any big revelations in our region's races yet, but have come across a number of interesting tidbits about who's donating to who.Here they are, race by race:District 6…
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