Linda Evans Parlette

Report gives Paid Family Leave Task Force a failing grade

November 18, 2008 - 2:10pm
Tags: Linda Evans Parlette, Janea Holmquist, Bruce Chandler, Gary Condotta,
Release Date: Jan 18 2008

OLYMPIA… Senators Linda Evans Parlette and Janéa Holmquist, along with their House counterparts, Representatives Bruce Chandler and Cary Condotta, today released their Paid Family Leave Task Force minority report. The failure of the majority party to follow their own law requiring the final report of the task force to be available by Jan. 1, 2008 for public review prompted Republican members of the task force to provide their own analysis of the entitlement program.

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June 6, 2008 - 4:50pm

What's in a name? Top two ballots allow for party wiggle room

By Bryan Bissell
Category: Governor, Local Tags: Dino Rossi, Linda Evans Parlette, Top Two Primary, Brendan Williams, Richard DeBolt, Randy neatherlin, John Gotts, Vicky Ybarra, Herb Baze, Dan Kristiansen

Shakespeare's Juliet once pondered, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet." But in politics, does the same rule apply?

Washington's new "top two" primary is giving candidates a chance to find out whether or not the Republican Party, by any other name, would smell as sweet.

By and large the party preferences statements have been very predictable. Most candidates say that they "prefer Democratic Party" or "prefer Republican party", along with a few Greens and Constitution Partiers. The most common variation on the filing list is between Republican and GOP, two terms that are synonymous for the same thing.

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