Ron Paul

Dino Rossi, or at least Dino Rossi's words, can be found somewhat frequently on the internet this week in a move to solidify his support on Washington state's right flank.

The Seattle P-I's Joel Connelly reported Tuesday that Rossi has written an open letter to supporters of former presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) asking them to look further into his campaign for governor.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate also gave an interview to Red County, a popular blog that bills itself as presenting "grassroots politics from the center right."

SPOKANE -

At many of the Republican presidential debates, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) proclaimed that he was the real Republican in the race, and the most authentic conservative. Today at the Washingotn State Republican Convention, his supporters felt the same way and hoped to impact the Party platform on those principles.

One of the leaders of the Spokane County Ron Paul delegation, the state's largest, is Jeff Whiteside. Whiteside is a nearly full time volunteer for the campaign and led the organization of the massive Ron Paul congregation across the street from the convention. He explained some of the tactics and purposes of their efforts at the convention to PolitickerWA.com.

Ron Paul supporters gather across from the convention: Politicker Photo

SPOKANE - Jim Camden at the Spokesman-Review has a detailed recap of the nuts and bolts of Friday's convention action. He reports that the final delegate count to the Republican National Convention is 33 for presumptive nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain, 4 for Texas Rep. Ron Paul, and 3 for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

McCain won Washington's presidential caucus, where half of the state's delegates were awarded, on February 9 with 25 percent of the vote compared to 23 for Huckabee, 22 for Paul and 16 for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. 14 percent were uncommitted. He also won the primary with 50 percent of the vote.

SPOKANE - Check out some of the images of the Washington State Republican Convention. More below the fold.

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DAVENPORT -

In a modern looking, pew-filled courthouse adorned with photographs of more than a hundred years worth of judges, Lincoln County Republicans met in Davenport on Sunday for their annual county party convention. Aside from a few problems with party mailings that didn't reach their intended destination within the county of just over 10,000 people surrounded by wheat farms sandwiched between rugged coulee country to the west and Spokane's pine forests to the east, the convention went on without incident.

Tacoma, WA -

As of 1:36 AM this morning a total of 961,736 ballots have been cast, 518,753 for the Democratic Party and 382,501 for Republicans, with an estimated 302,667 remaining to be counted.  read more »