Morning Fizz
The Lead is the GOP's Largest So Far This Year
1. Insider D.C. paper The Hill
has changed its take on the Murray-Rossi race from "Lean Democratic" to "Toss Up."
Meanwhile, the Gallup Poll's weekly tracker has the GOP beating the Democrats by 10 points on its generic ballot.
Says Gallup:
2. The city's Ethics and Elections Commission is hearing a case that will interest civic wonks at its monthly meeting tomorrow afternoon. A petition by city municipal court judge candidate Ed McKenna claims that ethics director Wayne Barnett acted wrongly when he refused to let McKenna mention his opponent, sitting judge Edsonya Charles, in his voters pamphlet statement.
3. Tunnel supporters have a new concern. Will environmental groups sue the state over the project because it doesn't meet the state's greenhouse gas reduction requirements?
4. There are two important reads in this morning's Seattle Times:
•Murray vs. Rossi on extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy—that is, couples making more than $250,000 and individuals making $200,000. Repealing the cuts is worth $700 billion to the feds over the next decade.
Murray is for repealing the tax cuts to this group, the top 2.9 percent of households in Washington. Rossi is against repealing the cuts.
The article includes this detail:
•The other big deal article—the Seattle teachers union and the school district appear to have a deal on the new teacher contract.
5. Stop by the Five Point Cafe after work today for our first ever NerdHour. Wonk out about the day's news with Erica (aka The C. is for Crank), Dan Bertolet (aka HugeassCity), Josh Cohen (aka BikeNerd) and Cola editor-in-chief, Josh Feit.
Meanwhile, the Gallup Poll's weekly tracker has the GOP beating the Democrats by 10 points on its generic ballot.
Says Gallup:
"The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP's largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup's history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress."
2. The city's Ethics and Elections Commission is hearing a case that will interest civic wonks at its monthly meeting tomorrow afternoon. A petition by city municipal court judge candidate Ed McKenna claims that ethics director Wayne Barnett acted wrongly when he refused to let McKenna mention his opponent, sitting judge Edsonya Charles, in his voters pamphlet statement.
3. Tunnel supporters have a new concern. Will environmental groups sue the state over the project because it doesn't meet the state's greenhouse gas reduction requirements?
4. There are two important reads in this morning's Seattle Times:
•Murray vs. Rossi on extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy—that is, couples making more than $250,000 and individuals making $200,000. Repealing the cuts is worth $700 billion to the feds over the next decade.
Murray is for repealing the tax cuts to this group, the top 2.9 percent of households in Washington. Rossi is against repealing the cuts.
The article includes this detail:
The federal government's total taxes-and-other-revenue haul as a share of the U.S. economy is now at its lowest point since 1950, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
•The other big deal article—the Seattle teachers union and the school district appear to have a deal on the new teacher contract.
5. Stop by the Five Point Cafe after work today for our first ever NerdHour. Wonk out about the day's news with Erica (aka The C. is for Crank), Dan Bertolet (aka HugeassCity), Josh Cohen (aka BikeNerd) and Cola editor-in-chief, Josh Feit.
