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Don Moody (D-Wenatchee)When you don't have much money and you don't have the pulpit of incumbency it can be difficult to make your voice heard.  The simplest solution, for those in the underdog role, is to seek debates with one's opponent. Just ask Hillary Clinton as of February 5, 2008.

It is no different here in Washington. In the last week two Congressional challengers, Steve Beren (R-Seattle) and Don Moody (D-Wenatchee) have issued calls for a series of public debates with their opponents.

Eastern Washington added a second Democratic candidate in as many days yesterday when White Salmon businessman John Gotts called the Tri-City Herald to announce his run for Doc Hastings' seat in the 4th District.

Gotts told the Herald that he is a "very, very, very pro-business" Democrat who has gone back and forth between the two major parties in his adult life, voting for George W. Bush as recently as 2000 but now supports Barack Obama and American troop withdrawal from Iraq.

Olympia's Cheryl Crist, challenging Rep. Brian Bairdrd District (D-Vancouver) for his 3 seat in the House, bills herself as "the peace candidate" and stakes her candidacy to the notion that "peace and prosperity are our birthright as citizens of the United States of America," and that voters are clamoring for a candidate who represents their shared goals of peace and social justice.

4th District Democratic candidate for Congress Don Moody grew up in Peshastin, Washington and became known around the Wenatchee area as a Sheriff's dispatcher and radio newsman in the 1970s and 80s. He never went to college, but has become well-versed in history and economics on his own, spending hours a day reading journals on the subjects. He even published a book called "America's Worst Train Disaster" about the Wellington Avalanche on Stevens Pass in 1910.

George Fearing (D-Richland) has topped the $100,000 mark in his campaign to unseat Rep. Doc Hastings in Central Washington's 4th District. The campaign started late in 2007, and had raised around $60,000 by January.

"Reaching the $100,000 goal was a major milestone," said assistant campaign manager Mimi Latta in the Benton County Democratic Party newsletter. "We sincerely thank all of those who contributed"

Beginning Monday morning, PolitickerWA will launch a series of profiles of the nine candidates who have announced their intention to challenge an incumbent member of Congress in 2008. Every weekday morning for the next nine days PolitickerWA will publish a profile of a challenger. The schedule, which starts in Eastern Washington and moves counterclockwise around the state, is below:  read more »

Wenatchee's Don Moody has announced that he will run for Washington's Fourth Congressional position as a Democrat.

Moody, a radio personality and author, sees the need for a new approach to legislating for the people of the 4th.  read more »