Press Releases from SDCC http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease 2012-02-05T01:02:29+01:00 text/html 2012-01-10T09:45:25+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=17 Small Business Owner Mark Mullet Announces Campaign For State SenateFOR MORE INFORMATIONMark Mullet 425-681-7765FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETuesday January 10th 2012Issaquah -- Small business owner Mark Mullet announced today he will campaign for the State Senate seat in the 5th Legislative District currently held by Cheryl PflugI believe my background as owner text/html 2012-01-05T11:44:27+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=16 Renton - With the announcement this morning that Senator Margarita Prentice will not seek re-election Dr. Bobby Virk has announced his intention to seek the State Senate seat. Only in America could my story ever take place said Virk 40 who was born in the Punjab region of India to text/html 2010-12-06T15:41:03+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=15 December 6 2010OLYMPIA --State Senate Democrats today finalized both their caucus leadership teams and committee membership slate for the next two years. Sen. Karen Fraser D-Thurston County was elected to the position of Majority Caucus Chair. Fraser has served in the Legislature since 1989 and has been a member of text/html 2010-11-24T10:39:28+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=14 As expected the service cuts Gov. Gregoire has proposed are numerous deep and are painful. Her list shows the enormity of our task and I commend the Governor for her first step in tackling this latest hurdle we face as a state. Our challenge isnt just a math problem. We text/html 2010-11-05T14:05:26+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=13 SPOKANE128148 State Senator Chris Marr who was the first Democratic elected to the 6th Legislative District since 1938 issued his concession statement tonight on Spokanes local news programming. In his statement Marr expressed appreciation for the opportunity to serve and the importance of continuing to work toward a better future text/html 2010-09-30T15:51:55+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=12 FEDERAL WAY128148State Senator Tracey Eide continues to win accolades for her nationally-recognized efforts to save lives on our roads and highways. Eide was honored on September 22nd with an award from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission for her legislation to ban cell phone use and texting while driving. Because of text/html 2010-09-13T16:10:11+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=11 Nine-month Spokane resident realizing that his deeply ideological opinionsinconsistent with Spokane valuesSPOKANE128148Recent Spokane resident and 6th District political candidate Michael Baumgartner today withdrew at the last minute from a non-partisan forum set up by the American Association of University Women AAUW of Washington in what was supposed to be an text/html 2010-08-04T14:49:29+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=10 Today equality prevailed over discrimination in California. We know that this is not the end of the court battle over the discriminatory Proposition 8 but todays federal-level court ruling clearly stating the unconstitutionality of denying gay and lesbian couples the right to marry is an historic milestone for the marriage text/html 2010-07-02T10:37:02+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=9 Todays decision by the World Trade Organization in favor of the United States complaint against the European subsidy of Airbus is not just good news for Boeing or for Washington its good news for the country and for American companies competing in the world economy. Its no secret that Boeing text/html 2010-06-24T16:03:48+01:00 http://sdcc.us/ http://sdcc.us/index.php?page=pressrelease&content=extended&id=8 Todays decision is great news for the state of Washington. Despite what some may say the issue before the court was not about the rights of gays and lesbians although the underlying initiative certainly was. The issue before the court was about accountability in our political process. Lawmakers in the