Washington: Jan Angel

March 7, 2009 - 12:19 pm

NEWS FEED: News Tribune

House votes to forgive sales tax on new Tacoma Narrows Bridge, but don't get your hopes up

By Joe Turner

It's true. The House did vote unanimously on Friday night in favor of a bill that would forgive $40 million in sales tax that tollpayers are supposed to start paying off in 2012 and continue through 2022, paying 10 percent each year.

The tax, so far, has just been deferred. (Also, if it's only the $40 million referred to in the news release below, only the state's 6.5 percent sales tax would be forgiven. Tacoma, Pierce County and Pierce Transit could keep their shares of the tax. That's because the total amount of tax owed is about $59 million.)

Anyway, the reason I say "Don't get your hopes up" is because it's highly unlikely the Senate will go along with this proposal.

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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 20:05

Outside spending trickles down to key legislative races

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Almost $22 million was spent by independent parties on behalf of candidates in this year’s election, about ten percent of which was done at the legislative district level.

Leading the charge were three of the Republicans top challengers. Outside interests spent $172,548 on Kevin Parker’s (R-Spokane) behalf in the 6th District and $147,143 on Jan Angel (R-Port Orchard) in the 26th. Both won their races to become the first Republicans in years to take back a Democratic seat.

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 13:43

Politicker pundits: see what prominent state politicos have predicted

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Everyone is a pundit these days, telling anyone who will listen who they think will win the governor’s races, the 8th Congressional District race, the presidency and their own local elections. So PolitickerWA.com decided to help fan the flames of the state of punditry by giving some prominent political people a venue in which to share their prediction skills.

PolitickerWA.com received predictions on a handful of important races across the state from a number of elected officials, staffers, bloggers and academics. See what they had to say below.

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Fri, 10/17/2008 - 01:26

BIAW ties make their way into state house politics

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The Building Industry Association of Washington, whose political moves have made headlines this season, mainly in their support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi, is also making waves in local races.

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Mon, 09/08/2008 - 16:56

House Republicans see good news in the numbers

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Two weeks ago in Denver, Washington state Speaker of the House Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) remained hopeful of the Democrats' long term strategy for maintaining a large House majority, but after August's "top two" primary, House Republicans are as hopeful as ever.

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Wed, 07/02/2008 - 12:56

26th LD Dems mock opponents

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The 26th Legislative District Democrats met Tuesday in Port Orchard to endorse statewide Democrats and local state House incumbent for position 2 Rep. Larry Seaquist (D-Gig Harbor) and candidate for position 1 Kim Abel (D-Port Orchard).

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Fri, 04/25/2008 - 12:51

In the 26th, a 'dynamic duo' looks to make inroads for GOP

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The 26th Legislative District covers Gig Harbor, the Key Peninsula and Southern Kitsap County, and with those places a mixture of affluent commuters, retirees, rural small business owners and navy personnel. The area, represented in Congress by stalwart Democrat Norm Dicks, currently has a full legislative slate of Democrats.

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Sun, 04/06/2008 - 19:17

Kitsap Republicans hopeful for fall elections

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The Kitsap Sun has the news from the Kitsap County Republican Convention, which took place Saturday. Despite the absence of the scheduled keynote speaker, Republican Party Chair Luke Esser, the attending candidates were hopeful of their chances to gain seats in November.

Connie Lord, candidate for State Senate was blunt about it.

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