Horses Ass blog folding?

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Thursday April 15, 2010 · 3:45 PM PDT

2010/04/15 · 15:45

The influential Washington state blog Horses Ass may cease to exist in its current form as its proprietor, David Goldstein, contemplates a move away from full-time blogging spurred by the need to eat food and pay bills. (Full disclosure: I also blog at Horses Ass as an unpaid contributor, but I'm writing this diary on my own initiative.) More inside.

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Wednesday March 17, 2010 · 1:39 PM PDT

2010/03/17 · 13:39

State Senator Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver, and candidate in WA-03, today issued his strongest statement yet in support of moving ahead with health care reform, imperfect as it is. Pridemore is running for the seat being vacated at the end of the year by retiring Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., who voted against reform in December. Baird still won't say how he will vote this time.

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 7:40 PM PDT

2009/08/21 · 19:40

Democratic Rep. Brian Baird, D-WA03, is being accused of falsely claiming to have received a telephoned death threat. The accusation comes from a right wing blogger in his district who goes by the pen name "Chief," and this accusation is quickly spreading tonight on right wing blogs. As you'll see, the accusation may turn out to be very thin gruel.

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 10:35 AM PDT

2008/08/01 · 10:35

The news that top anthrax specialist Bruce E. Ivins apparently committed suicide as the government was preparing to charge him in the 2001 anthrax terrorist attacks, and especially this Glenn Greenwald column about the questions it raises, led me to Google around seeking more information about Ivins. Some letters to the editor written by one Bruce Ivins of Frederick, Maryland, may give some insight into his mindset.

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 7:23 AM PST

2008/02/08 · 07:23

Vancouver, WA--A friend of mine returned last night from being trained for her caucus and told me she had been instructed that people who register at the caucus site tomorrow should not be allowed to participate in choosing candidates. She then tried to find out from another site coordinator if this was accurate, and that person also told her on-site registrants may not help pick the candidates. I also know that a third site coordinator is stating the same.

Unfortunately, these site coordinators are being directly contradicted by the information put out by the state party.

More below.

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Saturday October 28, 2006 · 7:14 PM PDT

2006/10/28 · 19:14

Congressman Dave Reichert, R-Wash., who is locked in a fierce re-election battle with Democratic challenger Darcy Burner in Washington's 8th congressional district, has sent voters another glossy mailing using taxpayer dollars, according to the Burner campaign.

House rules prohibit such mailings 90 days and less before an election. But Reichert appears to have exploited a little known loophole in House rules that allows committee and sub-comittee chairs to send mailings, according to a Burner campaign news release.

Reichert is chair of a subcommittee attached to the Homeland Security Commitee. Read More

WA-08-onslaught of NRCC money

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Saturday October 14, 2006 · 7:36 AM PDT

2006/10/14 · 07:36

The good news is that Darcy Burner is in a dead heat.

The bad news is that the NRCC is dumping tons of money into the district to try and defeat Darcy Burner in her bid to deafeat Republican Dave Reichert in WA-08. Read More

WA-Initiative 920, Newspapers fund estate tax repeal

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Tuesday October 10, 2006 · 8:59 PM PDT

2006/10/10 · 20:59

Newspaper companies in Washington state are funding a conservative attempt to repeal the state's estate tax.

The Seattle Times, The (Vancouver) Columbian, The Wenatchee World and Pioneer Newspapers, which owns a chain of small publications, have all donated cash to a committee campaigning for I-920. Read More

WA-State Supreme Court and Astro-Turf

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Thursday September 14, 2006 · 1:41 PM PDT

2006/09/14 · 13:41

As Washington state approaches its primary next Tuesday, Sept. 19, voters are being subjected to an unprecedented barrage of negative television ads for judicial races.

This Andrew Garber article in the Seattle Times this morning highlights the wads of campaign cash flowing into Washinton state as far-right astro-turf groups seek to elect pliant judges to the state Supreme Court:

OLYMPIA -- An unprecedented amount of money is flowing into this year's state Supreme Court races, much of it financing attack ads by conservative and liberal factions fighting over the ideological bent of the court.

The Garber article does a good job detailing the flurry of activity in the Supreme Court races, two of which will be decided for certain on Tuesday. For the sake of brevity, I won't excerpt anymore of Garber's work. Read More

Atlas Barfed-Pamela interviews John Bolton

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Monday August 14, 2006 · 8:46 AM PDT

2006/08/14 · 08:46

Glenn Greenwald has an important post asking why a press corps that became obsessed with Jane Hamsher's "blackface" image of Joe Lieberman has not managed to notice that UN Ambassador John Bolton was "interviewed" by Pamela Oshry of Atlas Shrugged. Read More

When Lieberthugs attack

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Thursday August 03, 2006 · 7:32 PM PDT

2006/08/03 · 19:32

A post at MyDD by Matt Stoller details how the Lieberman campaign has resorted to thuggish tacticts, hijacking a Lamont event and being extremely aggressive.

I will gladly delete if Mr. Stoller cross-posts, but I thought it important to alert readers here, or if I have missed a duplicate.

Details below the fold. Read More

WA-Sen-Candidate McGavick (R) sued by shareholder

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Tuesday August 01, 2006 · 11:20 PM PDT

2006/08/01 · 23:20

A descendant of one of the founders of what is now Safeco insurance has filed a lawsuit against GOP Senate candidate Mike McGavick, alleging fraud concerning McGavick's $28 million "golden parachute." McGavick is the likely Republican nominee to face Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) Read More

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Atlas Barfed-Pamela interviews John Bolton

When Lieberthugs attack

WA-Sen-Candidate McGavick (R) sued by shareholder