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Washington: Booth Gardner

February 26, 2009 - 06:59 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Nirvana, Adele and Charles Z. Smith now; Booth Gardner later

By Joe Turner

I kept trying to get to this, but my colleague with The Associated Press, Brian Slodysko, beat me to it.

A few years ago, the oral history program got split up. The Legislature now commissions oral histories of former legislators (Former Sen. Lorraine Wojahn, Tacoma Democrat, still has a bio in the works, I think.) And the Secretary of State's office does everybody else.

Sam Reed's office chose to write bios on Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, longtime Bremerton Sun reporter Adele Ferguson and first black justice on the Washington Supreme Court, Charles Z. Smith.

Reed's office also is working a bio for former Gov. Booth Gardner and former Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Dimmick, the first woman on the bench of the state's highest court.

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Thu, 10/09/2008 - 03:24

More ex-guv love: Evans pens op-ed in favor of I-1000

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Former Republican U.S. Senator and three-term Governor Dan Evans wrote an op-ed piece in Tuesday's Seattle P-I in favor of Initiative 1000, the assisted suicide measure also known as death with dignity.

Evans touts the safeguards in the law, and argues that choosing one's own time to die is an issue based in personal freedom.

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 16:50

Gardner, I-1000 backers turn in 320,000 signatures

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

OLYMPIA -

Volunteers and staffers for the I-1000 Death with Dignity campaign gathered on the capitol steps today to turn in 320,000 signatures in support of their cause, nearly 100,000 more than the 224,800 needed to gain ballot access, more than half of which were gathered by volunteers. 170,000 of the signatures were collected for free compared to 150,000 by paid signature gatherers.

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Wed, 05/14/2008 - 16:03

A tired Gardner campaigns hard for 'Death with Dignity'

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Leslie Brown writes a profile of former Governor Booth Gardner's fight for the I-1000 "Death with Dignity" campaign in the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber. Gardner keeps a summer home on Maury Island. In it, Brown details the struggles Gardner goes through on a daily basis balancing the hard work of campaigning and fundraising on behalf of the initiative while also dealing with the debilitating effects of Parkinson's disease.

"My health is unusually good," Gardner tells Brown. "But I'm pushing myself pretty hard."

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Wed, 04/30/2008 - 16:14

I-1000 brings in big money from all over

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Spokesman-Review's Richard Roesler is reporting that I-1000, the death with dignity initiative, is a real cash cow. The supporters of the initiative have raised $900,000 with contributors from all fifty states, $215,000 of which came from Oregon's Death with Dignity interest group. But they seem to need all that money given that they have spent nearly $600,000 on consultants, fundraising and signature-gatherers.

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