Hey #WashingtonState and especially those in #WhatcomCounty: Call the legislative hotline today at 800-562-6000 in support of SB 6346, the Millionaires Tax. It has passed the Senate, but now needs a vote in the state House and Representative Alicia Rule of the 42nd district needs to hear we support it. Call today!

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/04/holdout-democrats-leave-wa-house-support-for-income-tax-in-doubt/

#wapoli #waleg #BellinghamWA

Immediate action needed today to help #RankedChoiceVoting in #WashingtonState ! Call the legislative hotline at 1-800-562-6000, and leave a message for your House Representatives that you strongly support bringing HB 2210 (the VOICES Act) bill to the floor before Tuesday's 5 PM cutoff!

Read more about HB 2210 here: https://fairvotewa.org/ranked-choice-voting-legislation/ #waleg #wapoli

It's primary election day in #WashingtonState! It's probably too late to put your ballot in the mail and be sure that it will get postmarked today. Safer to find an official drop box and return your ballot before 8pm!

Here's an interesting Google Map of all the drop box locations in Washington.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1qEF8pzR0orFz7Nmf7WvT-z6Byn5D0-c&usp=sharing

#wapoli #waelex #elections

Hey #WashingtonState voters, we have one more day to get the #RankedChoiceVoting bill out of committee in the state legislature. Please take a moment to call the Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000 and register your support for the Washington VOICES Act, HB 1448!

Here's a link to the bill: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1448&Year=2025

And here is FairVote Washington's one-pager: https://fairvotewa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/FairVote-WA_Washington-VOICES-Act_012225.pdf

#FairVote #FairVoteWA #wapoli #waleg #RCV

Now that ballots are arriving in Washington State, please check out the FairVote Washington candidate endorsements, especially for the very important Whatcom County Charter Review Commission: https://fairvotewa.org/candidate-recognition-2024/

#WhatcomCounty #WashingtonState #wapoli #waelex #FairVote #FairVoteWashington #FairVoteWA #RankedChoiceVoting #BellinghamWA

I dug into my archives and found this map I made of 2016 election results aggregated by the (then) new Whatcom County council districts introduced in 2017. Gives a rough sense of the political alignment in our small county here in the northwest corner of Washington State.

I need to update this map with new data from all the elections since 2016, obviously, but it's a hassle to work with the precinct level results. Soon.

#wapoli #waelex #WhatcomCounty #Whatcom #BellinghamWA #uspol

People forget that Gov Inslee appointed Hobbs to Secretary of State to get him out of the way in the #WALeg because he was such an obstructionist. Now, no surprise, he's being an obstructionist in the SoS office.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2024/02/11/op-ed-state-secretary-hobbs-is-wrong-to-oppose-ranked-choice-voting/

#WAPoli #Washington #WashingtonState #RankedChoiceVoting

Hey #WAState folks- there's a bill in the state senate this session that proposes switching to permanent standard time, and stops the silly clock switches for DST. Please use this link to check out the bill, and use the comment option to ask your state senator to support it/become a co-sponsor, and ask your house reps to support introducing a companion bill!

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5795&Initiative=false&Year=2023

#WAStateLeg #WALeg #WAElex #WAPoli #Seattle