News Team | February 19, 2011
Today is the Second Anniversary of the Tea Party movement – February 19thGrand Old Partisan salutes Rick Santelli. On this day in 2009, the CNBC analyst denounced the ruinous Obama policy agenda. His epic words encouraged millions of Americans to organize the Tea Party movement…. Read More
News Team | February 13, 2011
Kris Sherman, The News Tribune | 2-12-2011 Thousands of property owners in Pierce County will get their annual property tax statements in the mail beginning next week. But if you can’t wait, you can look yours up online at the Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer’s office here. The files were posted Friday afternoon by the assessor’s office, [...]
PierceGOP | February 11, 2011
Help Stop the Attacks on Rob McKenna Dear Friends, Below you will see a message from Liberal Congressman Jay Inslee attacking our own Attorney General Rob McKenna for his work in challenging the constitutionality of the “individual mandate” portion of ObamaCare. Congressman Inslee pushed ObamaCare from the beginning, and today it is clear that the [...]
News Team | February 10, 2011
Jordan Schrader, The News Tribune | 2-10-2011 Could this end up as Pierce Transit’s Plan B? Transit advocates and Rep. Marko Liias, D-Mukilteo, are unveiling a bill today that would offer a series of new funding sources for buses and trains. Right now, county transit agencies can ask voters to raise their sales taxes. But [...]
News Team | February 8, 2011
Kris Sherman, The News Tribune | 2-08-2011 Pierce County voters were snubbing a request for a sales tax increase to help fund bus service. preliminary returns in today’s election show. Pierce Transit’s Proposition 1 is failing, 54 percent no to 45 percent yes, according to returns just posted on the Pierce County Auditor’s Elections web [...]
PierceGOP | February 4, 2011
Bellevue – Washington State Republican Party Chairman, Kirby Wilbur, today called upon all Washingtonians to note that this Sunday is the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birthday. “With all the hype and glitter of Super Bowl 45 this Sunday, we should not forget that it is also the birthday of America’s 40th President,” Wilbur said. “It [...]
News Team | February 3, 2011
Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State | 2-03-2011 Listen to Secretary of State Sam Reed describe in-depth his 2011 legislative package. It covers four elections-related bills: •Moving the state’s Primary date to early August to help military and overseas voters, and allowing such voters to use fax or e-mail to return their ballots (SB [...]