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Peninsula Daily News Port Townsend-Jefferson County’s Daily Newspaper
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State Representative Position 1 Kevin Van De Wege Dan Gase
56% 44%
State Representative
U.S. Senate Patty Murray Dino Rossi
51% 49%
U.S. Congress Norm Dicks Doug Cloud
57% 43%
Position 2 Steve Tharinger Jim McEntire
52% 48%
November 3, 2010
Jefferson County District Court Judge
I-1053: Legislative Two-Thirds Vote
Jill Landes John Wood
Yes No
54% 46%
I-1000: Privatize Liquor 66% 34%
Prosecuting Attorney
I-1082: Workers’ Comp
Scott Rosekrans Paul Richmond
Yes No
62% 38%
42% 58%
County Commissioner
Prop. 1: Sales Tax Hike I-1098: Income Tax
John Austin Jim Boyer
Yes No
57% 43%
56% 44%
Yes No
35% 65%
Yes No
48% 52%
I-1107: Candy Tax Repeal Yes No
63% 37%
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Full tabulation of Tuesday night’s election results on Page A6
Tharinger holds lead in state race
Sales tax measure glides
Van De Wege ahead in other House contest By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
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Superior Court Clerk Ruth Gordon and County Administrator Philip Morley smile after reviewing election results on Proposition 1 at the Jefferson County Courthouse.
Proposition 1 passing: ‘Public recognizes value of services’ By Jeff Chew
Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — A proposition to raise the sales tax to boost anemic revenues for Jefferson County and the city of Port Townsend was passing handily after the first round of election results were tallied Tuesday night. Proposition 1, which would raise the Jefferson County sales tax rate by 0.3 percent to 8.7 percent for public safety, youth and senior services, health services and basic government services, was being
approved by 7,090 votes, or 55.61 percent, to 5,659 votes, or 44.39 percent against. The tally showed that 967 did not vote on the countywide measure. “I’m gratified that the public has recognized the value of those services and has chosen to fund them even in this economic climate,” said County Administrator Philip Morley. “In this economic climate, one does not presume that any measure to fund public services will pass,” Morley said. Turn
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Incumbent Democrat Kevin Van De Wege declared victory Tuesday night over Republican Dan Gase — even though Gase isn’t giving up — while Democrat Steve Tharinger and Republican Jim McEntire were deadlocked as the two 24th District House races headed to their conclusions. Van De Wege, a Clallam County Fire District 3 firefighter-EMT from Sequim, maintained a healthy lead over Gase, 57, a Port Angeles real estate managing broker and consultant, with 22,096 votes, or 55.7 percent, to Gase’s 17,567 votes, or 44.3 percent, for the district’s Position 1 seat. Tharinger, a Clallam County commissioner from Dungeness, held a 1,453 vote lead from among 39,349 votes cast districtwide with 20,401 votes, or 51.8 percent, to McEntire’s 18,948 votes, or 48.2 percent for the Position 2 seat vacated by Democratic Party
Commissioner Austin wins second term For Peninsula Daily News
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powerhouse Lynn Kessler. Van De Wege declared victory with thousands of ballots yet to be counted in a district with more than 84,000 registered voters. The 24th District consists of Clallam and Jefferson counties and the northern half of Grays Harbor County, not including Aberdeen.
Gase not conceding Van De Wege, 35, who was unavailable for comment Tuesday night, declared in an “official victory statement” e-mailed by his campaign that “I have been reelected.” “It means so much to me that our local communities have placed their faith in me.” Gase was not ready to concede. Turn
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By Curt Woodward The Associated Press
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Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Patty Murray greet well-wishers at election night parties in Bellevue and Seattle, respectively. Murray held a slim lead after election night ballot counting.
OLYMPIA — Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray took a slim lead over Republican challenger Dino Rossi in Tuesday’s early vote returns, raising the possibility of an extended vote count in Washington’s vote-by-mail election. Murray had about 51 percent of the vote to Rossi’s 49 percent in unofficial returns. More than half of the expected vote had been counted Tuesday night, but it can take several days to receive and tally all the ballots working their way through the mail. “Unfortunately, we don’t know what’s going to happen in this race yet,” Rossi told supporters in Bellevue. Turn
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Sen. Murray leads Rossi in first tally
By Julie McCormick
PORT LUDLOW — In a year widely predicted to be a bad one for incumbents at all levels, Jefferson County District 3 Commissioner John Austin, a Democrat, hung on to his seat by a 12-point margin with nearly 57 percent of the vote for a second four-year term. And the shaky situation nationwide was still fresh in Austin’s mind Tuesday night as he reflected on his vic- Austin tory over his Republican challenger, Jim Boyer. “I was concerned,” he acknowledged. “I was aware of the national mood and also aware that in this economic recession, people are concerned.”
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