Sue Lani Madsen

Monday was the deadline for reporting April contributions and expenditures for campaigns here in Washington. Now that six months remain until election day, PolitickerWA.com will begin a monthly rundown of the financial status of the state's top races.

Here is how things stand as of April 30, 2008. The first number listed is contributions, the second number is expenditures and the third number is the difference between the two. Precluding any unusual circumstances, that third number is equal to cash on hand. The candidate with the most cash on hand is listed at the top of each section.

DAVENPORT -

In a modern looking, pew-filled courthouse adorned with photographs of more than a hundred years worth of judges, Lincoln County Republicans met in Davenport on Sunday for their annual county party convention. Aside from a few problems with party mailings that didn't reach their intended destination within the county of just over 10,000 people surrounded by wheat farms sandwiched between rugged coulee country to the west and Spokane's pine forests to the east, the convention went on without incident.