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An eagle-eyed David Castillo fan sends along these clips of recent Castillo appearances at a) a tea party and b) a Thurston County GOP event.  Check 'em out.
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Here's a belated update on some news related to the WA-3 race from last week:
Jaime Herrera announced the endorsements of former Rep. Linda Smith and the Cowlitz County GOP. Smith, readers will recall, was the last Republican to hold the third district; she lost a Senate bid against then first-termer Patty Murray back in 1998. The Cowlitz County GOP endorsed Herrera unanimously; readers will remember that back in February, Herrera won a Cowlitz County GOP straw poll. ...

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From the Seattle P-I writing about a fundraising letter from Denny Heck's campaign managers:
Following the example of Sarah Palin and Glen (sic) Beck, Jaime Herrera and David Castillo are reaching out and embracing the Tea Party movement that . . . shut down countless public town halls last year by yelling and harassing people.
Sarah Palin? Glenn Beck? Um, having interviewed both Castillo and Herrera, I'd be inclined to say they're more like Eric Cantor and Cathy McMorris...

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... the David Castillo campaign has added a Denny Heck/Health Care Watch counter to their site.

Fun!

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... by email comes a note from Rep. Dave Reichert's office that the House today passed... Reichert's Alpine Lakes Wilderness Legislation!
Congressman Dave Reichert (WA-08) today applauded the passage of his Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act (H.R. 1769), by the U.S. House of Representatives. Reichert’s proposal passed the House with strong bipartisan support, and marked a significant step toward securing a 22,000-acre...

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Yesterday, David Castillo, Republican candidate for Congress running in Washington's third district, announced the endorsement of the FreedomWorks PAC. From the release:
“We are proud to endorse David Castillo as a Champion of Freedom. His commitment to fundamental free market principles tells me he will be one of the leaders in the next Congress on core limited government issues,” said Chairman Dick Armey.

Castillo is only one of four House challengers to be...

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From the Paul Akers campaign:
Team Akers today announced a St. Patrick's Day "Pledge Bomb". Paul Akers said
"One of my staff members said they had an Idea - get people to pledge $17 per month until we're done - one dollar for each year Senator Murray has been in office - on March 17th. I didn't even need to think about it. It's what I've been saying all along - you have to listen to people, or else you're missing out on great ideas. Senator Murray is so out of touch with...

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Over at Politico, Jonathan Allen reports that "The race is on for permanent control of the Ways and Means Committee," and that "Sources close to Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, who is sixth in seniority on the panel, say he’s reviewing his options and has significant support from Democratic colleagues and business interests on K Street. Neal would have to climb over Levin, Washington Rep. Jim McDermott and Georgia Rep. John Lewis to get the gavel. Asked about his own intentions...

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From the Seattle Weekly... (For the uninformed, Rob McKenna is Washington's current Attorney-General and, in my humble opinion, it is exceedingly likely that he runs for Governor in 2012):
The state Democratic party seems to have outsmarted itself. It bought the url robmckennaforgovernor.com with plans to turn it into an attack site on the man Republicans consider one of their brightest stars.
But when the page went live by accident, resulting in a lot of embarrassing press...

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Or at least this, which is apparently not a joke:
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