Governor Chris Gregoire is expected to sign two bills providing $50 million for long-term flood mitigation projects in the areas hardest hit by last year's winter storms - Lewis, Thurston and Gray's Harbor counties.
"Only somebody as dumb as Gregoire would endorse it."
- Dr. Matt Manweller, a political science professor at Central Washington University, during a confrontation with Democratic Party volunteers who were protesting against Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi's opposition to the state's current minimum wage policy, which increases the wage level with inflation every year.