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Democratic State Senator Rebecca Saldaña has decided against continuing with her 2024 candidacy of Commissioner of Public Lands, reducing the number of credible Democratic hopefuls to three and improving the party's chances of avoiding a general election lockout that would effectively guarantee a Republican pickup of the office.

Rebecca Saldaña bows out of 2024 contest for Commissioner of Public Lands Her exit reduces the number of credible Democratic hopefuls to three and improving the party's chances of avoiding a general election lockout that would effectively guarantee a Republican pickup of the office, which oversees Washington State's Department of Natural Resources

You might think that someone who has been trying to change state law for decades and has sponsored dozens of initiatives seeking to change state law would have acquired a basic understanding of it. But you would be mistaken. Not only is Tim Eyman bad at writing law, he's bad at reading it, too.

Tim Eyman wants to contest initiative filing fee increase, but has no grounds for doing so The former prolific promoter of initiatives wants to bring a lawsuit to overturn the filing fee increase, but the law expressly gives the Secretary of State the authority to increase the fee.

Six destructive right wing initiatives could be headed to the 2024 presidential election ballot.

Yes - six.

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NPI relaunches StopGreed.org following Let's Go Washington signature turn in event - Permanent Defense On November 21st, a network of right wing groups primarily funded by Republican millionaire Brian Heywood submitted what they said were over 418,000 signatures supporting I-2117, an initiative that seeks to repeal Washington State's landmark Climate Commitment Act, and pledged to return soon to subm...