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WA-4 will indeed be R/R.

Clint Dielder former NFL player, “tea party” guy, 2010 Senate candidate and unsuccessful 2012 nominee for State Land Commish, faces Dan Newhouse a former state legislator who served as Rat Governor Christine Gregoire’s Agriculture Director (I don’t like that) in what the media is calling “tea party versus establishment” while bemoaning that the “promising democrat” failed to make the runoff.

Dielder is notably endorsed by Mark Levin (eh), Ron Paul (yuck), National Association for Gun Rights, and Freedomworks. Newhouse’s listed endorsements are all local.

I presume Newhouse will win since rats will be able to vote in the general and will likely oppose the “tea party”. I can’t say either candidate thrills me.

In CD 1 the “Republican nomination” is still to close to call, wealthy former Microsoft exec Pedro Celis, the party’s preferred choice, trails Robert J. Sutherland a “libertarian-minded” biochemist and Air Force vet. Celis is criticized for running an “invisible” campaign. The large amount of outstanding votes are mail in, counting will be slow. I don’t like mail in voting.

The “right to farm” amendment in MO passes by only a couple thousand votes. Opponents fear it will harm regulation of puppy mills and erode restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland (which to me sounds unconstitutional and easy to get around anyway).

Opponents of the new lottery game feared it would decrease revenue from other games (which all go to school funding, which I don’t think I agree with).

1 amendment I failed to mention that passed 3-1, extends protections against “unreasonable search and seizure” to electronic data, cops will need a warrant. There was no organized opposition to this amendment, I can only imagine the rationale of the 25% who voted against it.

The GOP nominee for heavily rat MI-14 is named Christina Conyers, former naval officer. She should be running in MI-13 against John Conyers!!!!

“The GOP nominee for heavily rat MI-14 is named Christina Conyers, former naval officer. She should be running in MI-13 against John Conyers!!!!”

No, she should be running in MI-13 against a Democrat who defeated John Conyers’s write-in campaign after John Conyers was ruled to have gathered signatures illegally. Alas, a liberal judge ruled that such rules were unconstitutional as applied to Democrats, and let Conyers on to the ballot, so we won’t get to find out how many clueless Democrats vote for a Republican woman named Conyers because they thought it was part of John Conyers’s plan to avenge his primary defeat. (In MI-14, BTW, we should start a whispering campaign that Mayor Lawrence stole the nomination from John Conyers and that Conyers fans should vote for his niece, who will then give the seat up to her uncle.)

They are finally done counting in Washington State, former Microsoft exec Pedro Celis (R) advances to the general election against rat freshman Suzan (yes, with a z) DelBene in CD 1.

Celis narrowly prevailed over penniless “Libertarian minded” Republican Robert Sutherland, who led Celis for most of the count. DelBene placed first in the primary with 50.67%.

Great news, we now have a chance at winning the seat.