The Federal Judge claimed "lack of jurisdiction" in the case, meaning he did not have authority to challenge 'state' mandated Governor's proclamations.
Just like two years ago, when there was an election held to replace the retiring Doc Hastings, Dan Newhouse and Clint Didier will square off again in November for the 4th. Congressional District seat.
Two years ago, Rep. Dan Newhouse narrowly defeated Clint Didier in the race to see who would replace the retiring Doc Hastings from the 4th Congressional District. Despite having a distinct fund-raising advantage, Newhouse beat Didier by only a few percentage points. It was the first time in state history that two candidates from THE SAME party faced each other in a Congressional election.
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After starting off nice, it turned into a bitter campaign. For the first time in our state's 125 year history, two candidates from the same party opposed each other on a Congressional ballot.
A judge in Spokane has agreed to hear 4th District candidate Clint Didier's motion against Washington State Potato Commission Executive Director Chris Voigt.
According to a very recent FreedomWorks poll, Clint Didier is leading Dan Newhouse by a margin of 35 to 33 percent, but 26 percent say they are undecided.
It's rather ironic that virtually the same time the Washington State Executive Ethics Commission has fined the Executive Director of the State's Powerful Potato board, the State Farm Bureau announced it's endorsing Dan Newhouse for Congress.
The Washington State Executive Ethics board says there's "reasonable cause" behind allegations that the Grant County Chairman of the Dan Newhouse campaign, who is also the Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission, committed ethics violations this summer. The violations stem from using state potato commission resources to help the campaign. And there's more.
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