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Posted by David Postman at 8:01 AM
- The state Republican Party has a new spokeswoman, Carrie Howard Shaw. I spoke to her during the medical malpractice ballot fights when she was working for Doctors for Medical Liability Reform. She worked in the Office of Congressional Liaison in the Reagan Administration, on the presidential campaign staff of Jack Kemp and with Kemp's son, Jeff, at Families Northwest.
- Linnea Noreen is a young woman who wants to run against Congressman Jim McDermott as an independent. To do that she needs 1,000 signatures by the end of the week. She kicks off the campaign tomorrow at the Columbia City Theater, which is kind of late for a kick-off given that the campaign could end Saturday if she doesn't get the signatures.
Noreen doesn't come right out and say McDermott is too old, but her campaign is a generational one:
"We need an innovative approach to solving the problems facing our country and I believe that my generation has the answers. We can either start the conversation now and accelerate the process, or resign ourselves to wait for yet another generation to come of age, propose the idea, and start again. I'm here to prove that this generation is standing up, and I'm saying let's start the process!"
Young Josh Feit at The Stranger said it was an "insane pleasure" to meet her.
UPDATE: At the Seattle Weekly, George Howland is less than impressed with the latest "vanity candidate.
- Lary Coppola, editor of the Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal, gives his take on the McGavick-Cantwell race on his personal blog, West Sound Politics. He's a fan of McGavick's, but the candidate probably doesn't need friends saying things like this: "Meanwhile, McGavick hasn't really taken any positions on anything controversial or of any real substance. His strategy is extremely smart." (Thanks for the tip, Sengali.)
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