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Gase concedes to Van De Wege McEntire trails but not giving up By Paul Gottlieb
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Dan Gase conceded defeat Thursday in his effort to dislodge incumbent Rep. Kevin Van De Wege from his 24th District Position 1 seat in the state House. Gase, a Port Angeles Republican, said that still-incomplete results from Tuesday’s general election indicated that Van De Wege, a Sequim Democrat, had an insurmountable lead. “I left a message for Kevin this morning after seeing the results and congratulated him,” said Gase, 57, a real estate managing broker for Coldwell Banker Uptown Realty. In the second count of ballots Wednesday, Van De Wege had 23,975 votes, or 55.3 percent, to Gase’s 19,397 votes, or 44.7 percent. In the 24th District Position 2 state
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House race, Republican Jim McEntire, 60, one of the three Port of Port Angeles commissioners, said he was not ready to concede to Democrat Steve Tharinger, 61, one of the three Clallam County commissioners. “There are too many ballots still out there to come to any conclusion,” McEntire said Thursday. McEntire, of Sequim, was behind by 1,321 votes after Wednesday’s count of ballots. Tharinger, also of Sequim, had 22,181 votes, or 51.5 percent, to McEntire’s 20,860 votes, or 48.5 percent. At least 10,500 ballots are outstanding in Clallam County — which has more than half the voters in the district, which also covers Jefferson County and the northern part of Grays Harbor County. Turn
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Election updates due today Peninsula Daily News
Election results will be updated in both Clallam and Jefferson counties today. Results will be posted at www.peninsuladailynews. com after they are tabulated at noon. Also counting ballots today will be the Grays Harbor Auditor’s Office, with thatse count scheduled at 4:30 p.m. The northern portion of Grays Harbor, not including Aberdeen, is in the 24th Legislative District, which also covers all of both Clallam and Jefferson counties. Total 24th District tallies will be posted on www. peninsuladailynews.com as soon as they are available. Turn
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November 5-6, 2010
Murray wins Senate seat Republic Rossi concedes By Curt Woodward The Associated Press
OLYMPIA — U.S. Sen. Patty Murray seized a fourth term Thursday, surviving voters’ backlash against Democrats nationally and weeks of relentless GOP campaign attacks on her voting and federal spending record. Murray’s victory over Republican Dino Rossi, after three days of tallying, preserves breathing room for the Senate’s shrunken Democratic majority. Republicans made inroads there Tuesday and took control of the House for the rest of President Barack Obama’s first term. Her win was secured Thurs- Murray day as tallies pushed her lead to about 46,000 votes out of more than 1.8 million counted, or about 51 percent to 49 percent. About three-quarters of the expected ballots had been counted in unofficial returns.
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By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend City Council will consider using a portion of revenue from a sales tax hike voters approved Tuesday for fire services. The city of Port Townsend is projected to receive $480,000 a year from the recently passed Proposition 1 — which raises the county sales tax rate by 0.3 percent to 8.7 percent — and has pledged to allocate one half of the new revenue to the maintenance of Memorial Field and the Port Townsend Recreation Center for at least four years.
From left, Logan Flanagan, 10, Chance Bates, 8 and Marie Bartlett, 7, listen to Marie’s father, Clay, read a story in the Port Townsend Library on Thursday afternoon. The library is at 1220 Lawrence St. Its phone number is 360-3853181, and its website is http://ptpubliclibrary.org.
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Fire services funding eyed Council mulls using sales tax revenue
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Recommendations made The city’s finance committee recommended Wednesday that the remainder of the municipality’s income from the sales tax increase go to support East Jefferson Fire-Rescue, contributing to paying off the loan on the Port
Townsend Fire Station and purchasing equipment. The City Council will consider the idea Monday. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at 540 Water St. The fire district commissioners discussed the idea at a budget workshop Thursday.
Public safety tax The sales tax hike measure that Jefferson County placed on the Tuesday ballot is a “public safety sales tax,” and so one-third of the total amount it raises must be allocated to police, fire, or other public safety services, while 40 percent must go to local municipalities — in this case, Port Townsend. The measure, which will add 3 cents to every $10 spent in Jefferson County as of April 1, is expected to earn an additional $506,000 specifically for the county, with a projected $480,000 going to Port Townsend. Port Townsend contracts for fire services from East Jefferson Fire-Rescue. The city is not part of the district. In August, voters defeated a levy lid lift for fire service within the city. Turn
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Chetzemoka inaugural affects trips First voyage on Nov. 14 will affect 6 sailings By Charlie Bermant Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — Three round trips between Port Townsend and Coupeville will be canceled next Sunday, Nov. 14, to accommodate the inaugural voyage of the MV Chetzemoka, which will begin service on the route the following day. The canceled sailings are the 8 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
from Port Townsend, and the 8:45 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. from Coupeville on Whidbey Island, according to the state ferries system. Vehicle reservations are available aboard the Steilacoom II for all other sailings that day. The 9:30 p.m. crossing from Coupeville will be the last voyage on the route for the Steilacoom II, which Washington State Ferries
leased from Pierce County for three years. The new $76.5 million Chetzemoka will take over the route on the regular schedule on Monday, Nov. 15. While the morning 6:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. sailings out of Port Townsend will operate as usual, the 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. sailings Charlie Bermant/Pensinsula Daily News are invitation-only. The MV Chetzemoka is seen during a Sept. 25 stop in Port Turn to Ferry/A6 Townsend.
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