Washington: Mike Hope

February 12, 2009 - 01:10 am

NEWS FEED: Sound Politics

Rep. Hurst Fails to Act to Punish Child Abusers

On January 28, State Rep. Mike Hope sent a letter to Rep. Chris Hurst, chairman of the House Public Safety Committee, to request a hearing for HB 1724, which would increase the penalties for first-time child abuse offenders. The legislation...

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Mon, 12/08/2008 - 15:41

Hope-Loomis recount begins Tuesday

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The recount in the 44th Legislative District race between Mike Hope (R-Lake Stevens) and Rep. Liz Loomis (D-Snohomish) will begin tomorrow in Snohomish County.

Hope won the first count by 118 votes out of more than 68,000 votes cast over Loomis, who was appointed to the seat midway through the term when John Lovick stepped down upon being elected Snohomish County sheriff.

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Tue, 12/02/2008 - 13:11

LD recounts begin today

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The automatic recount process will begin today in the first of two state legislative district races whose election results were close enough, within 150 votes and less than 0.25 percent, to require a state mandated recount.

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Wed, 11/12/2008 - 17:44

Recounts likely in two LD races, possible in a third

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

More than a week after last Tuesday’s election, with nearly every ballot tallied and reported, three state legislative races are on the cusp of requiring a mandatory recount, which would come about in a race decided by a margin of less than one half of one percent.

Two of those elections, the 6th Legislative District matchup of Rep. John Ahern (R-Spokane) and John Driscoll (D-Spokane) and the 44th LD race with Rep. Liz Loomis (D-Snohomish) and Mike Hope (R-Everett), are almost certain to require another round, and may even call for a manual recount.

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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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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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Thu, 08/07/2008 - 17:54

Seattle Police Officers' Guild backs Rossi

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

SEATTLE -

[img_assist|nid=1808|title=Dino Rossi accepts the endorsement of the Seattle Police Officers' Guild|desc=Politicker photo|link=none|align=right|width=150|height=200]The Dino Rossi for governor campaign held a press conference today at the Seattle Police Officers' Guild headquarters in SoDo to announce the Guild's endorsement of Rossi for governor. The Seattle Guild, which represents 1202 officers and sergeants in Seattle, did not endorse either candidate in 2004.

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