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Washington: Norm Dicks

February 28, 2009 - 09:25 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

John Ladenburg has competition for EPA Region X job

By Joe Turner

According to the Post Intelligencer, former Washington Utilities and Transportation chairman Mark Sidran, a former Seattle prosecutor, has joined the field.

And so has state Sen. Phil Rockefeller, D-Bainbridge Island.

Since leaving his job as Pierce County executive, John Ladenburg has hung his shingle out at his sons' law firm in Tacoma. He's "of counsel." He told me last week he's also doing some consulting work for Cascadia developer Patrick Kuo.

The P.I. points out that U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, will have a big say in who President Obama nominates for the Environmental Protection Agency job in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, etc. Dicks over sees the EPA budget.

My money's still on Ladenburg. He and Dicks go way back.

Here is the post by Joel Connelly at the P.I.

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February 20, 2009 - 06:18 pm
NEWS FEED: The Olympian

Report: U.S. Rep. Dicks was No. 4 in earmarks for questioned PMA Group

U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks of Belfair landed pretty high up this week on Congressional Quarterly’s list of more than 100 House members who secured earmarks for clients of a much-scrutinized lobbying firm, The PMA Group.

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February 11, 2009 - 01:18 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Dicks among beneficiaries of suspect lobbyist firm

By John Henrikson

FROM LES BLUMENTHAL IN D.C.:

Roll Call is reporting this morning that a defense lobbying firm, whose Virginia offices were searched last year, and its employees have contributed $59,500 to Washington Democratic Rep. Norm Dicks since 2002.

The firm, PMA Group, has ties to Rep. John Murtha, D-Penn., who chairs the House defense appropriations subcommittee. Dicks is the third ranking Democrat on the subcommittee and has a close working relationship with the chairman.

Roll Call said there are no indications Murtha, Dicks or any other members of the subcommittee are targets of the federal probe.

George Behan, a Dicks' spokesman, said his boss has not been interviewed by the FBI or Justice Department investigators.

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January 28, 2009 - 07:30 pm
NEWS FEED: News Tribune

Schools stand to get share of stimulus pie

By John Henrikson

FROM LES BLUMENTHAL IN D.C.

WASHINGTON - With the vote just hours away, Rep. Norm Dicks just called to talk about the $825 billion stimulus bill and what it will mean for school districts in Pierce County and the South Sound.

According to Dicks, the bill would provide $28.6 million to the Tacoma district for construction and other programs, $12 million for Federal Way, $11.7 million for Clover Park and $7.1 million for Puyallup.

Even the smaller districts will receive funding the congressman called "nothing to sneeze at." University Place will receive $1.

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Mon, 12/01/2008 - 14:39

Times report shows corporate largesse for Dicks' favored charities

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

A new financial disclosure law shows that charities favored by Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Belfair) are seeing a surge in donations from corporations and defense contractors whose business depends on earmarks and appropriations from a House subcommittee of which Dicks is an influential member, the Seattle Times reports.

Although the money given in his name to charities including the National Guard Youth Foundation, whose local academy Dicks helped start, totaled $478,000 just this year.

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Fri, 10/24/2008 - 18:01

Inslee praises state's environmental leaders

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

SEATTLE - U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Bainbridge Island) kicked things off at today's fundraiser luncheon featuring former Vice President Al Gore on behalf of Gov. Chris Gregoire by imploring voters to make it so that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Dino Rossi are all "swept into the ashcan of history."

He went on to praise Gregiore for her "financial acumen" and praised Washington's current status of carrying a budget surplus, and said she was among the boldest and most visionary leaders in the nation on the issue of climate change.

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Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:31

Images of a Tacoma rally

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

TACOMA -- Below are some images from the campaign rally for Democatic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) at Tacoma's Cheney Stadium.

 

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Sun, 10/19/2008 - 16:31

Dicks sings praises of Burner, Gregoire

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

TACOMA - Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Belfair), the hometown congressman here in Tacoma since 1977, stood alongside Darcy Burner (D-Carnation) and Rep. Adam Smith (D-Tacoma) and riled up the crowd at the Sen. Joe Biden rally at Cheney Stadium with chants of "Dar-cy" before leading the assembled Democrats in the pledge of allegiances.

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Fri, 10/03/2008 - 13:12

WA delegation splits against successful new bailout bill, 5-4

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

Washington state's U.S. House delegation once again split down the middle the Economic Stabilization Act, better known as the revised bailout bill.

The state's nine Representatives split their votes 5-4 just as they had done earlier in the week. This time, however, they voted mostly "no", despite the revised bill's passage in the House, 263-171.  All three Republicans voted against the bill, joined by two of the state's six Democats.

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Mon, 09/29/2008 - 14:07

WA delegation split on failed bailout bill

By Bryan Bissell, PolitickerWA.com Reporter

The U.S. House of Representatives has voted against the Wall Street bailout bill this morning by a count of 228-205. The split was bipartisan, with 133 Republicans and 95 Democrats joining forces to block the $700 billion supplement to the financial industry.

The Washington delegation was likewise split, though slightly more partisan with five of the six Democrats voting in favor of the bill, save for Jay Inslee (D-Bainbridge Island) who joined all three Republicans for the "no" vote.

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