King County voters to decide on turning prosecutor into a nonpartisan job We vote on so many damn offices here that most folks have no idea whom they are voting for.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
August 10th, 2016 - 9:00 am § in Misc.
How Gerrymandering can destroy Democracy ..and maybe hurt the GOP
The Republicans’ big gerrymander could backfire in a major way Meet the “dummymander.” WASHINGTONPOST.COM[...]
Russia Denies Responsibility for Dirty Tricks at Dem. Convention
Lavrov Dismisses Claims Moscow Behind Democrats’ Email Hack Trump Credits One Of ‘Our Friends’ In Russia, China With DNC Hack BY KATHERINE KRUEGER Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday brushed aside accusations that Moscow was behind the hacking of Democratic[...]
July 21st, 2016 - 9:32 am § in Misc.
Want a calm, dispassionate, academic insight into the presidential race?
David Brewster How about some calm, dispassionate, academic insight into the presidential race? Here’s the take from Congress-scholar David Mayhew on Trump’s many predecessors, key races, and the subtle point that the real contest is 2018 when the president in office loses a lot of seats[...]
July 20th, 2016 - 7:28 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
Law Suit Threatens to Close WASTATE Public Schools
State schools chief Randy Dorn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Seattle Public Schools and six other districts alleging that they illegally rely on local levies to fund basic education. (from Seattle Times) The seven school districts, which the lawsuit says are named as examples, are Seattle, [...]
March 30th, 2016 - 10:08 am § in The Ave Scene
Job #1 of the Legislature is a political hippocratic oath to do no harm.
Reuven Carlyle FACEBOO The state’s 2016 supplemental budget fails to meet that low standard. Not only did we fearlessly punt this year on McCleary, we’ve unnecessarily placed our state’s school districts in danger of losing nearly half a billion by failing to simply allow them to[...]
March 16th, 2016 - 4:14 am § in America
Girly Women Make Better PolItical Candidates
Women with more feminine faces do better at the hustings Washington, May 16 – Researchers have highlighted voters’ perception of traditional femininity, political competence. According to the Dartmouth College-led study, female politicians’ success can be predicted by their facial [...]
February 13th, 2016 - 10:43 am § in Misc.
A Norwegian View of Sanders and Clinton
Knut Robert Knutsen Bernie Sanders is the first to say that he cannot accomplish everything he WANTS to do without a more progressive congress. The thing about Sanders is that he has aspirations. An endgame that requires action from the electorate and that requires more progressive candidates to see[...]
David Brewster: The Great Rebellion
David Brewster Joel Kotkin reflects on what he calls The Great Rebellion sweeping the West, analysing its five main battlefronts and generally applauding the end of the neo-liberal crony-capitalism politics of the past 40 years. He writes: “What holds the rebels together is a single idea: the [...]