Grays Harbor First

01/10/2024

Dave Reichert is absolutely the only candidate in the Republican primary who can win. Yes, he is far from being a staunchly conservative Republican. However, he would be the most viable Republican candidate since 2012, when Rob McKenna came within 3.1 points of defeating Jay Inslee, while carrying Clallam and Pierce counties. If you nominate Semi Bird, Bob Ferguson will be comfortably elected Governor with margins similar to Inslee in 2020. So, the choices are either a compromise Republican or a Democrat.

11/22/2023

Great news, cap and trade will likely go to the ballot in the 2024 election, assuming the legislature takes no action, which is likely.

Let’s Go Washington has submitted over 400,000 signatures for I-2117 to prohibit carbon tax credit trading also known as cap-and-invest.

11/20/2023

Governor John Spellman in the Governor’s office in Olympia. Spellman was the last Republican Governor of Washington,

11/20/2023

Shingle Mill in Hoquiam, Washington in 1910.

11/17/2023

In national news….

Speaker Mike Johnson has released the full January 6th security tapes. Maybe now we can start to piece together the truth of what really occurred.

U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration

11/17/2023

Grays Harbor was one of just TWO counties in the entire state of Washington to go for Senator George McGovern in the 1972 Presidential election, along with Pacific County. President Nixon was re-elected with 60.7 percent of the vote, carrying 49 states, with McGovern carrying just Massachusetts and Washington DC. In Washington, Nixon won the states 9 electoral votes, defeating McGovern 837,135 to 568,334.

11/17/2023

Following Wednesday’s ballot count, Doug Orr maintains an 8 vote lead over Aberdeen city councilwoman Debi Ann Pieraccini to be Aberdeen’s next Mayor. According to the Grays Harbor County Auditor’s office, Orr has received 1,356 votes to Pieraccini’s 1,348. Four ballots are left to be counted across Grays Harbor County, however there are 32 ballots from Aberdeen alone that did not have a proper signature on them, that were not counted. These voters will have an opportunity to fix the signature error and have their vote counted, so as of this hour, Pieraccini still has a sliver of hope to pull this out, but Doug Orr is the favorite to be elected Mayor of Aberdeen.