Boeing

Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dave Reichert have gone kosher and sworn off the pork. Which sounds admirable but also correlates to their effectiveness rating, and will likely get them less goodwill than a couple of good projects for their districts would have. On the other side, Rep. Norm Dicks won Citizens Against Government Waste’s “April Porker of the Month” for trying to get the Air Force to buy from Boeing. What nerve!

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The state Democratic Party is continuing its series of attacks on Dino Rossi in the absence of a formal Chris Gregoire campaign. Today the Democrats took Rossi to task for supporting John McCain in spite of his alleged interference with the Air Force tanker contract that was awarded to France-based EADS over Boeing.  read more »