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		<title>Filing day 5: Plans for a busy day</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/17/filing-day-5-plans-for-a-busy-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alyson Rotter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlene Buetow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Riplinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dale Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Greene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Ames]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Spence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Roth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the first filings posted Friday several more races became contested. Bainbridge Island’s Council District 5 is now a three-way race and will be listed in the primary, unless someone withdraws by Monday. Wayne Roth is the latest to file in the Central Ward race, joining John Green and Arlene Buetow. School district races became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filing day 4: Real races continue to emerge</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/16/filing-day-4-real-races-continue-to-emerge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alyson Rotter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Musgrove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Younger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Schlicher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Wofford]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jan Angel is in. She will run against Democrat Nathan Schlicher, D-Gig Harbor, for the Senate seat he has held since was appointed in January. The race of the year is set. It’s Republican vs. Democrat, perhaps the only one in the state. And of course that presumes no one else signs up to run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filing day three: Halfway to the race of the year</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/15/filing-day-three-halfway-to-the-race-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeannie Screws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Hart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Long]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kirsten Hytopoulos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Schlicher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Bosserman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Sound Utility District]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Noon update: State Sen. Nathan Schlicher, D-Gig Harbor, filed Wednesday in hopes he will be elected to the seat he was appointed to in January. Unless there are wild card candidates who we’ve not heard of, this puts us halfway to officially beginning what Schlicher’s presumed opponent — state Rep. Jan Angel, R-Port Orchard — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incumbency, close calls and money</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/14/incumbency-close-calls-and-money/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/14/incumbency-close-calls-and-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derek Kilmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam West]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incumbent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Angel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nathan Schlicher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Gordon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In January it became clear that the November general election would almost certainly be a race between Nathan Schlicher, the appointed Democratic incumbent, against Republican Jan Angel, a member of the House. As I write this neither of them have filed to run, so we are still operating on assumptions. There have been cases in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 filing day two</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/14/2013-filing-day-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Election 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Brockus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlene Buetow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bainbridge Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bremerton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CK School Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cynthia Triplette Galloway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faye Flemister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry McDonald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Henry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Curtis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Strube]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poulsbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheila Jakubik]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Day one filing information can be found here. Midday day two filings of note include Arlene Buetow running against John Green on Bainbridge Island. In Bremerton Roy Runyon wants back on the city council and will challenge Faye Flemister in District Six. Mike Sullivan will challenge Cynthia Triplette Galloway in District One, while District Three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bremerton to have a one-month council member</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/13/bremerton-to-have-a-one-month-council-member/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/13/bremerton-to-have-a-one-month-council-member/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bremerton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bainbridge Island City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Becky Erickson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Brunson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bremerton City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher J. Lemke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councilmen Adam Brockus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbi Lester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dino Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolores Gilmore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faye Flemister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Wheeler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interim council member]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James E. Strode]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeanie Schulze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Childs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathryn Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Ames]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Stokes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Wofford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Kitsap School Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patty Lent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port of Manchester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Orchard City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert B. Putaansuu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Runyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Kitsap School Board]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Victoria Crescenzi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wendy Priest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember how we had to elect a member of Congress to serve in the First Congressional District for one month following Jay Inslee’s resignation? Same goes in Bremerton, it seems. Despite the fact that the Bremerton City Council named an interim council member, Wendy Priest, following the resignation of Roy Runyon, county elections officials say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kilmer fundraiser looks beyond our ‘wretched hive of scum and villainy’</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/06/kilmer-fundraiser-looks-beyond-the-wretched-hive-of-scum-and-villainy/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/05/06/kilmer-fundraiser-looks-beyond-the-wretched-hive-of-scum-and-villainy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 03:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Derek Kilmer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2014]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Levinthal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the first-quarter 2013 Federal Elections Commission, U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor, has more than $400,000 on hand in preparation for the 2014 election. It’s a nice beginning sum, given that his first election to Congress had an astronomical (for races here) price tag of $1.7 million. He is almost a quarter of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refusing business for religious reasons</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/04/26/refusing-business-for-religious-reasons/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/04/26/refusing-business-for-religious-reasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlene's Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[florist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Ranker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Majority Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Attorney General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember seeing “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” signs in businesses, particularly restaurants. That sign might still be in place in some places, but I don’t see how it can be considered categorically true. If you follow the news, and if you stumbled upon this site I’m pretty sure you do, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former state Rep. Tom Huff dies.</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/04/16/former-state-rep-tom-huff-dies/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/04/16/former-state-rep-tom-huff-dies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Huff]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Huff, former state legislator in the 26th District, died Sunday. He was 80. The Gig Harbor Republican ran for the Legislature in 1994 to fill the seat left vacant by Wes Pruitt, a Democrat. “People deserve quality services from government at a reasonable tax rate, but what we’ve gotten is unreasonable taxes with poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beer tax video from both sides of the debate.</title>
		<link>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/04/08/beer-tax-video-from-both-sides-of-the-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/2013/04/08/beer-tax-video-from-both-sides-of-the-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Gardner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jay Inslee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valholl Brewing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pugetsoundblogs.com/kitsap-caucus/?p=6459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In preparing Friday’s story on local brewers’ reaction to a proposed beer tax I created a video. Technical difficulties (i.e. operator error) prevented me from getting the video up sooner. I still think it’s worthwhile, especially posted alongside Gov. Jay Inslee’s comments on the issue. So first, here’s Inslee discussing the tax during his March [...]]]></description>
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