State Supreme Court Justice Mary Fairhurst, a Gonzaga Law grad, is running for a second six-year term."For me, it's not about ideology," she said in a campaign announcement. "It's about making common sense decisions within the letter of the law."The conservative Building Industry Association of…
The battle lines in the governor's race seem pretty clearly drawn already. More from today's paper:Gregoire criticized Rossi, who launched his own campaign months ago, as a doom-and-gloom naysayer “who does nothing but criticize and promote fear across the state.”Rossi fired back, saying that Gregoire…
Catching up...Our Jim Camden, on the decision by Washington's state Democrats to hold conventions to nominate their candidates this year:Democratic State Chairman Dwight Pelz said the conventions are necessary because the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the state primary initiative took away the influence parties…
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