Washington Candidates for Senator
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Washington Candidates for Senator |
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WA Senator Candidates
State Primary: August 7, 2012
Michael Baumgartner (R)
Art Coday (R)
Nancy Travis (R)
District 1:
Suzan DelBene (D)
Steve Hobbs (D)
Dennis Kucinich (D)
Ross Hunter (D)
Darshan Rauniyar (D)
Laura Ruderman (D)
Darcy Burner (D)
John Koster (R)
Larry Ishmael (Independent)
District 2:
Rick Larsen (D)
John Shoop (R)
District 3:
Jon Haugen (D)
Jaime Herrera Beutler (R)
District 4:
Jay Clough (D)
Doc Hastings (R)
Shane Fast (R) - Tea Party Activist
District 5:
Rich Cowan (D)
Dan Morrissey (D)
Daryl Romeyn (D)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R)
District 6:
Derek Kilmer (D)
Doug Cloud (R)
Stephan Brodhead (R)
- Tea Party Activist
David "Ike" Eichner (R)
Jesse Young (R)
District 7:
Jim McDermott (D)
Donovan Rivers (D)
District 8:
John Kennedy (D)
Karen Porterfield (D)
Dave Reichert (R)
Keith Swank (R)
Ernest Huber (R)
District 9:
Adam Smith (D)
Dave Christie (D)
Jim Postma (R)
District 10: (NEW)
Denny Heck (D)
Stan Flemming (R)
Dick Muri (R)
The Washington State Seal
The state of Washington's official Great Seal is basically just a circle with an outer ring reading "The Seal of the State of Washington 1889", and a center that contains a portrait of George Washington. The present seal uses a Gilbert Stuart painting for Washington's portrait. The state might not have such a simple design if it had not been for jeweler Charles Talcott, who was asked to engrave a much more elaborate design for the seal back in 1889. Talcott persuaded against a proposed scenic design of the port of Tacoma, Mt. Rainier, fields, and livestock. Instead, he sketched out a design using a postage stamp portrait of George Washington. The story is that the postage stamp image proved to be too poorly detailed to engrave, so Talcott instead used George's image from a crate of cough medicine. Several other images of George have appeared on Washington's Great Seal over the years, but the Gilbert Stuart portrait is the official image on the state's seal today.
Washington State Capital
The First Capitol Building
After Olympia became the capital city of the Washington Territory in 1853, the city's founder, Edmund Sylvester, gave the legislature 12 acres of land to build the capitol, located on a hill overlooking what is now known as Capitol Lake. A two-story wood-frame building was constructed on the site, where the legislature met starting in 1854. When President Benjamin Harrison approved Washington's state constitution in 1889, he donated 132,000 acres of federal lands to the state with the stipulation that income from the lands was to be used solely for construction of the state capitol.
The Second Capitol Building
The legislature formed the State Capitol Commission in 1893 to oversee the creation of a new capitol building on the property in Olympia. The commission held a nationwide competition to find an architect and chose the submission of Ernest Flagg. Construction began on Flagg's plan, but was soon stalled by poor economic conditions with only the foundation completed. When the legislature finally passed an appropriation of additional funds in 1897, newly-elected Governor John Rogers vetoed it. Rogers advocated the purchase of the existing Thurston County Courthouse in downtown Olympia, now known as the "Old Capitol" and home to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. The legislature approved the new location and began meeting there in 1905.
The Third Capitol Building
The courthouse became the location of all agencies of the state government and within a few years the legislature decided the building was too small and a new State Capitol Commission convened in 1911. This time, the commission was interested in constructing a group of buildings to serve as the capitol rather than a single facility and selected the design submitted by the firm of Walter Wilder and Harry White. Wilder and White’s designs were influenced by the Olmsted brothers who served as consultants from 1911 to 1912 and designed and supervised the landscaping for the campus from 1927 to 1931. Construction of the campus began in 1912, and the Temple of Justice was completed in 1920, followed by the Insurance Building and the power and heating plant. After multiple revisions to the plans, the Legislative Building was completed in 1928. Additional buildings on the campus were constructed over the next several decades. The Capitol Campus was placed on the National Register of Historic Districts in 1974 and contains or contributes to some of the most valued views in the State including the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound, Mt. Rainier, the Capitol Dome and the Capitol Group of buildings on the hill. The design of the Capitol Campus is a grand example of the City Beautiful Movement from the Progressive era of the early 20th Century.
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