Voters were soundly rejecting a proposal to create a Whidbey Island-based power company, according to early vote returns from Tuesday’s election.
Langley council members unanimously approved a new pay raise for Mayor Paul Samuelson on Monday, the second salary increase since September.
Republicans appear to have the edge in early turnout in the 2008 election, according to a Record analysis of ballots returned through Oct. 31.
There’s one area where both Helen Price Johnson and County Commissioner Phil Bakke can agree: The differences between the two candidates couldn’t be greater.
More than a third of Island County voters have already cast their ballots for next week’s election, according to a Record review of vote returns. But younger voters are hanging onto their ballots longer than older county residents.
Democratic candidate Angela Homola pressed to get her personnel record with Island County sealed or destroyed less than a week before she registered as a candidate in the Island County Commissioner District 2 race, public records show.
Two candidates with a very different vision of where the county has been, and is going, are battling for the District 2 position on the Island County Board of Commissioners.
Puget Sound Energy CEO and president Stephen Reynolds is making a personal pitch to Whidbey residents, urging them to become more informed about the proposed takeover of the Bellevue-based utility’s service area by an island-based public utility district.
Angie Homola, the candidate for Island County commissioner who has centered her campaign on improving the way the county planning department does business, was a problem employee while she was previously employed by the planning department.
A political “hit piece” mailed to voters in the 10th District has Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen seeing red. And plenty of others, too.
The flier, which started arriving in mailboxes Monday, is titled “New Leadership 1982” and features a picture of Haugen side-by-side with Yuri Andropov, the former head of the KGB who became the general secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union after the death of Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, the year Haugen first took office as a state representative.
Democratic Party candidates in the 10th District have brought in double the campaign contributions of their Republican opponents in the month since the primary election, according to a Record review of campaign finance records.
With the final votes in the primary now counted, there are strong hints that Democrats may be in for another big showing come November.
Island County finalized its election results on Wednesday, and more Democrats cast ballots on Aug. 19 than Republicans in what has traditionally been a right-leaning county.
Don’t have a cow, man, but someone wants Bart Simpson to be Island County’s next auditor.
Though Jim Palmer, an Oak Harbor Republican, successfully waged a last-minute campaign to make it onto the November ballot in the auditor’s race, he wasn’t the only one who inspired voters to write in their own candidates during the primary.
