Last week Rep. Mary Skinner (R-Yakima) made some waves in the 14th District when she announced her retirement late in the game, leaving little time for candidates to begin their campaigns.
The Yakima Herald reports that, in the small interval of time since Skinner's announcement, five candidates have expressed interest already, and one speculative frontrunner has even dropped out of the bidding.
A plurality of Washingtonians (37 to 30 percent) want their representative to vote for some kind of economic rescue plan according to a Survey USA ...>
"I just feel like this was a rush. I don’t totally trust the process that we have gone through for the last seven to eight days."
- Republican Rep. Dave Reichert on the Bush administration's execution of their plan to convince Congress to vote for the $700 billion financial industry aid plan.