By PAUL KANE

WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER

More than three dozen Democratic congressional candidates banded together yesterday to promise that, if elected, they will push for legislation calling for an immediate drawdown of troops in Iraq that would leave only a security force in place to guard the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

Rejecting …

By DARCY BURNER

WRITING For SEATTLE TIMES

Five years ago last week, the United States invaded Iraq. Now we are stuck in a quagmire: 4,000 American troops have lost their lives, nearly 30,000 more have suffered serious injuries, and our military is becoming weaker by the day.

Our world-leading economy is weakening, drained by …

Daily Kos, March 19, 2008

At Daily Kos, mcjoan writes, "Five long, disastrous years have wreaked moral, economic, and political havoc here at home, and throughout the world in an ever widening ripple. Every dollar spent on the Iraq War has an opportunity cost attached, and will continue to for as long as it goes on. And it won't be …

Democratic congressional challenger Darcy Burner has wanted to end the war for a long time.  With her run this year, she was determined to have an answer for those voters who asked her how she could do that.

"As she prepared for a rematch with Reichert this year, Burner convened a team of experts to come up with a plan. On Monday, …

Blog writer dday, in a post at Hullabaloo, was in the audience when the Burner plan was presented at the Take Back America conference in Washington D.C.  Dday's summary of the plan is here.

"Ending the war in Iraq calls for diplomatic and economic approaches instead of a military solution, Eastsider Darcy Burner said Monday in leading a group of fellow Democratic congressional challengers announcing a peace plan."

The plan was developed by Darcy Burner and retired Army Major General Paul Eaton, with input from others, …

Edwards Evolution, Next Revolution (EENR), a community of John Edwards supporters committed to the "movement for progressive change," has endorsed Darcy Burner for Congress.

Click here to read their endorsement!

By DANIEL KIRKDORFFER

WRITING For ON THE ROAD TO 2008

(February 28, 2008) On Wednesday the House passed H.R. 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008.

Stories in the Seattle Times and Seattle Post Intelligencer will undoubtedly mention how Washington representatives voted, and they will surely mention …

By EDITORIAL BOARD

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

A pro-choice organization announced on Wednesday that 10 percent of the state's pharmacies don't carry or dispense the emergency contraceptive drug Plan B.

Depending on where the court case goes, there's a chance that none of the pharmacies in the state will have to dispense Plan …

By DAVID POSTMAN

SEATTLE TIMES BLOG, POSTMAN ON POLITICS

Congressman Dave Reichert was just given the official word that he did not get the seat he wanted on the House Appropriations Committee, confirms his spokeswoman, Abigal Schilling. The seat went to Alabama Rep. Jo Bonner.

That was the recommendation from House Republican …

The PI published an editorial written by Darcy on Dec. 24^th. The opinion piece, entitled "Is the Toy You Gave Safe?" described what Darcy found as a result of the toy-testing that she and her campaign sponsored in mid-December.

Here's what Darcy found: 

"Of the 479 toys tested, 47 items -- 10 percent of the total -- contained lead …

By MCJOAN

WRITING For DAILY KOS

What's impressed me most about this, her second effort, is how much she took away from losing. Last winter, just a couple of months after her close loss, we had a day long Northwest bloggers conference, and Darcy was our lunch speaker. She brought a detailed analysis and critique of the 2006 race …

By LISA STIFFLER

WRITING For SEATTLE P-I BLOG, DATELINE EARTH

If all the toy recalls have you looking suspiciously at the Tonka trucks and Curious George dolls on your shelves at home, you can bring them to various locations around Puget Sound next weekend for free testing for dangerous chemicals.

This week, a coalition of environmental …

By DARCY BURNER

WRITING For DAILY KOS

We were told we couldn’t bring our cellphones or Blackberries, so people’s fingers are twitching. The woman next to me is trying to figure out what time it is; nobody knows without their devices. Eventually we determine that a woman behind us is wearing a watch, which comes as a bit of a shock …

SLIDE SHOW By BOSTON GLOBE

According to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group, the Bush Administration's latest Iraq War funding request would bring the total cost of the war to $611.5 billion. That got the Boston Globe wondering: What would $611 billion buy?

In a presentation you can watch here, The Boston …

By BRUCE SMITH

WRITING For THE DISPATCH

Graham Fire Chief Reggie Romines confirmed Thursday, Oct. 25, that a Graham Fire Department unit is deploying to fight the southern California fires. The Graham crew, composed of one Type 3 fire engine, a specially designed off-road wildlands fire fighting vehicle, will have a Graham Lieutenant …

By DAVID POSTMAN

CHIEF POLITICAL REPORTER For SEATTLE TIMES

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton worked to boost her less-than-front-runner status among state Democrats Monday night by declaring that "there is no reason for our country to be backsliding away from the progressive tradition that came out of the …

By DAVID POSTMAN

SEATTLE TIMES BLOG, POSTMAN ON POLITICS

Mike Shields, chief of staff to Congressman Dave Reichert, says he made a mistake in the numbers he gave me last week for Reichert's latest fundraising totals. Shields said he improperly added back into those 3^rd quarter totals, money that had to be refunded to donors who …

By WALTER GIBBS and SARAH LYALL

WRITING For NEW YORK TIMES

OSLO, Oct. 12 — Former Vice President Al Gore, who emerged from his loss in the muddled 2000 presidential election to devote himself to his passion as an environmental crusader, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel …

By MICHAEL JEFFRIES

PUBLISHER For THE DISPATCH

(September 26, 2007, page A-4) Living in Pierce County can give you a jaded view of politicians in general, but I have decided there is some hope. I’ve had several occasions to hear talks by candidate for U.S. Congress Darcy Burner, and I have been impressed every time.

Darcy’s …

By OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

WRITING For NEW YORK TIMES

Today and tomorrow, the United States ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, and the top American general there, David Petraeus, will appear before Congress to offer a progress report on the war. The Op-Ed page asked six experts on the Iraq conflict to come up with three questions they …

By BRANDON ENGLISH

WRITING For DCCC BLOG

Looks like Washington State voters are tired of Republican Dave Reichert and his trusty rubber stamp.

Poll conducted 8/28/07:

Reichert (R) 39%

Burner (D) 44%

This poll was conducted just a day after Dave Reichert's pal George Bush came to Washington State to raise money for him. …

There are more important issues than troop numbers and withdrawal dates. The US should take a lead in talking to Iran – now

By GENERAL WESLEY CLARK

WRITING For THE INDEPENDENT

By REID WILSON

WRITING On REAL CLEAR POLITICS

From the shores of Lake Washington, just a dozen feet or so above sea level, to the 14,410-foot peak of Mt. Rainier, from the high-tech nerve center of the Microsoft campus in the north to the rural farmlands in the south, few Congressional Districts embody the range of extremes of …

By CHRIS BOWERS

WRITING On OPENLEFT.COM

Matt just called to tell me that Rodney Tom has dropped out of the Democratic primary for WA-08 and endorsed Darcy Burner. Apparently, Tom was very gracious in his concession, and also citied the Burn Bush Fundraiser for Darcy as the main reason for why he dropped out.

So, the progressive …

By NEIL MODIE

P-I REPORTER

State Sen. Rodney Tom abandoned the 8^th District congressional race Wednesday and endorsed his rival for the Democratic nomination, Darcy Burner, who is reprising her 2006 campaign against Republican Rep. Dave Reichert.

The Medina lawmaker's surprising withdrawal, seven weeks after announcing his candidacy, …

By ELI SANDERS

WRITER For THE STRANGER 

As President Bush paid a fundraising visit to Bellevue on August 27, three telling scenes unfolded. The first, and the most closely watched, took place inside the Bellevue Hyatt, where Bush was the big draw for a $1,000-a-plate (and $10,000-a-photo-with-the-president) event designed to fill …

By DAVID AMMONS

AP POLITICAL WRITER

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- President Bush,deeply unpopular in Washington state, arrived Monday afternoon to headline a fundraiser for Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., just hours after the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.

The president, making one of his infrequent appearances in a state …

By MATTHEW DALY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- President Bush will visit Bellevue on Monday for a fundraiser for Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., the White House said.

Details were being completed, but the president was scheduled to speak at a closed-door reception at the Hyatt Regency in Bellevue hosted by Reichert's campaign and …