Republican Michael Baumgartner airs first TV ad in his challenge of U.S. Sen....
WASHINGTON – Michael Baumgartner, who’s trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, released his first television ad today. The Republican state senator uses the 30–second ad to call for an end to...
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Dale Foreman, onetime Washington State Republican Party chairman, endorses...
Dale Foreman isn’t just any Republican. He is a former Republican state legislator from the Wenatchee area, the former House Majority Leader, a onetime Republican candidate for governor who would have...
View ArticleKCTS and League of Women Voters will sponsor first (and so far only) U.S....
The first debate between incumbent U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and Republican challenger Michael Baumgartner has been agreed to by the two campaigns. KCTS and the League of Women Voters will cosponsor the...
View ArticleTacoma’s Martinac shipbuilding is the setting for latest campaign ad for U.S....
It’s the kind of ad a candidate does when they have a sizable lead and lots of money – a positive spot that touts the incumbent’s work on the economy. In this first ad of the general election season,...
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Baumgartner promotes penny gas tax...
After touring facilities at Madigan Army Medical Center and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, U.S. Senate candidate Michael Baumgartner this week proposed a new federal gasoline tax of one penny with proceeds...
View ArticleLive Tweeting: U.S. Senate Debate
Peter Callaghan is at this afternoon’s debate between Sen. Maria Cantwell and challenger Michael Baumgartner. Follow it live here. US Senate Debate
View ArticleDid an “embarrassed” Maria Cantwell tell U.S. Senate debate audience that she...
Campaign fundraising appeals have even-lower truth standards that campaign advertising. So it usually isn’t worth our time to try to fact check them. The audience, after all, is usually the already...
View ArticleUW Poll: Obama, R-74 winning; Inslee-McKenna is toss-up
Voters in the Evergreen State are backing President Obama and same-sex marriage by wide margins, while giving Democrat Jay Inslee a very slight edge over Republican Rob McKenna in the Washington...
View ArticleMichael Baumgartner ad criticizes Maria Cantwell for supporting Afghan War....
It remains a low-budget campaign, especially compared to his opponent, but Michael Baumgartner’s U.S. Senate campaign has produced an add called “Afghanistan” that lays out his opposition to the war...
View ArticleSen. Cantwell: ‘fiscal cliff’ deal includes sales-tax break for Washington...
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell says the “fiscal-cliff” tax bill that passed by a vote of 89-8 early this morning includes the sales-tax deduction for taxpayers in Washington and a half-dozen other states....
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