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More than a month after a seven-way primary in the 3rd Congressional District, Democrat Carolyn Long has finally picked up an endorsement from one of the vanquished challengers — a Republican.
Long earned the endorsement of Republican rival Michael Cortney in the November general election, where she faces incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground.
At this point, no other of the eliminated candidates — Republican Earl Bowerman and Democrats Dorothy Gasque,...

Once again Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, is silent about this president being implicated in campaign finance violations. She has been silent about all the abhorrent anti-democratic policies and enough is enough! Taking children away from parents at the border, siding with a hostile foreign power, and — oh, forget it!
Herrera Beutler’s silence is complicity plain and simple. I urge everyone to support Carolyn Long for the 3rd Congressional District. She will put...

I am one of many writing to support Carolyn Long to represent our great state in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District in Congress. She has the energy and exciting new ideas to get things done. Please vote for Long. Let’s get rid of our present representative who does nothing for her constituents. Let’s vote and get ready for a new day.

It can be difficult to get the public to pay attention to the federal debt. If the economy is strong and taxes are low, well, people can’t be bothered to read the fine print.
So allow us to quote an insider in describing the impact of having the government spend more than it takes in: “Our current national debt is crippling businesses, hurting families and stifling the growth of new jobs. … Both Republicans and Democrats share the blame for getting us to this point, but...

An experiment aimed at boosting voter turnout with postage-paid ballot return envelopes fell flat in Clark County this month, with a smaller percentage of ballots returned by mail than last year.
Only 63.4 percent of ballots for this year’s primary election were returned through the U.S. Postal Service, according to Clark County Elections Office, which certified the Aug. 7 election results Tuesday. Last year, the return rate by mail was 66.4 percent. In the last midterm primary, in...

Don’t hit the snooze button! We’re finally waking up to the realities of a Republican-controlled America, where corporations come first, the rich are taking even more from working families, children are ripped from their parents, political corruption runs rampant, and we’ve turned global allies into enemies. Trump-enablers like Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler have sold out Southwest Washington and work for the 1 percent. Unlike Herrera Beutler, Carolyn Long will represent our...

Carolyn Long is a clear voice and a clear choice. President Trump has drained the swamp, turning it into a fetid cesspool of self-serving corruption with a deaf ear to the needs of the people. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler has supported Trump at every step. Washington must be changed so our democracy can breathe fresh air and thrive. We need to restock Congress with people who believe in government for the people. Carolyn Long is such a voice. The rubber stamps need to be voted out. We are...

Supposition: You’re my employer. I don’t show up for work, yet benefit from health care which I vote to deny you. You would like to talk to me, but I make myself only available by phone with canned questions and answers. I’m asking for your approval with intellectually insulting and dishonest questionnaires, framed to support my ideology. Why would you keep employing me?
Carolyn Long, as a decadeslong educator at Washington State University Vancouver, is no carpetbagger...

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, made several misleading statements during the debate with Carolyn Long (“3rd District, first debate,” Aug. 9, The Columbian).
Herrera Beutler acknowledges that she voted more than 80 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act while at the same time noting that the Republican majority had no viable alternative. Are these the actions of a responsible public official? Taking away life-saving benefits from ordinary people with no idea...

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler is trying to convince us that cutting taxes (cutting the government’s income) will reduce the deficit. This is false.
The following is a quote from a Bloomberg article on July 30, “Treasury Sees Second-Half U.S. Borrowing at Most Since 2008.” “The Treasury is boosting sales of bills, notes and bonds to help finance a budget gap that’s widening after President Donald Trump signed $1.5 trillion in tax cuts late last year and the...