campaign finance

The Catholic Church is active in every anti-choice activity it can get its hands on, but given the controversies surrounding the abuse within the Church, perhaps, for once, they ought to keep their hands off.

The Public Disclosure Commission held a press conference in Olympia today to release the latest edition of their already award-winning website.  The new site, found here, is meant to be simpler to use with more graphics, clickable variables and up-to-date figures.

In other words, PolitickerWA.com's nights just got a whole lot more exciting. Give it a shot and see for yourself.

Washington is trade-dependent, yet the strongest epithet a campaign can level is that opponents’ money comes from out-of-state? We should get over our provincialism and take that money all the way to the in-state bank.

But bleach works too. Here's a quick, chemically stripped update on the status of political transparency in Washington state.

How many times does Dino Rossi get to bend or break campaign finance rules before it becomes a pattern of deceit? First Forward Washington, then abuse of a tax-exempt religious organization, now use of federal military property for fundraising. He knows better.

Sen. Maria CantwellCongressional Quarterly issued a report today listing the past and present U.S. House and Senate candidates with the ten largest campaign debts, typically as a result of personal loans. Maria Cantwell, Washington's wealthy junior senator, came in at number 8 on the list with an unpaid balance of $2,312,707 from her successful 2006 campaign against Republican Mike McGavick.