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Suzan DelBene added another $400,000 to her campaign for the 1st Congressional District seat, bringing her total spending to $2.3 million. Her contribution last Wednesday means she now has exceeded her $2.2 million personal outlay for her unsuccessful 2010 race against U.S. Rep Dave Reichert. In this race, DelBene has personally outspent all four of Democratic…

Good Morning, Happy Friday: The latest KING 5/SurveyUSA poll shows Democrat Suzan DelBene moving up in polling data in the 1st Congressional District race, likely as a result of $1 million worth of ads. Here are the latest poll results.  The poll shows DelBene gaining ground in recent weeks and Democrat Darcy Burner losing her…

In the last debate before the Aug. 7 primary election, five Democratic candidates vying for the 1st Congressional District tried put some daylight between their mostly-similar, mostly-liberal policy positions by focusing on personality and personal narrative. But the biggest contrasts aired at Wednesday’s  Seattle CityClub debate on the Microsoft campus were with the sole Republican in…

A new 1st Congressional District poll, by the consultant firm Strategies 360, shows the race tightening as ballots are being mailed this week, with Democrats Darcy Burner and Suzan DelBene virtually tied. Republican Snohomish County Councilman John Koster, who also ran for Congress in 2010, should easily advance past the Aug. 7 primary, with 36 percent of…

Laura Ruderman’s mother says she just wanted to help her daughter win the 1st Congressional District when she created and funded (at $115,000) a PAC devoted to attacking her daughter’s opponent, Suzan DelBene. But the mama-bear act has been an utter disaster for Ruderman. DelBene broke her usual placid demeanor to turn on Ruderman in More

On the heels of news that Laura Ruderman’s mom financed a series of hit pieces on her opponent, Ruderman went up with her first TV ad … about her mother.   The soft biographical piece centers on a cancer cluster in Ruderman’s family, including her mother’s “dance” with cancer. But the timing is wacky. Ruderman’s campaign…

Suzan DelBene dropped $1 million of her own money into campaign, giving her a huge edge in advertising spending as a host of Democrats jostle toward toward the Aug. 7 primary in the hot 1st Congressional District race. FEC quarterly reports filed this weekend, which cover fundraising and expenses April through June, show fellow Democrat Darcy…

UPDATE 1:28 p.m.: Laura Ruderman’s mother said in an emailed statment that she funded the anti-DelBene PAC because she was “very frustrated” that DelBene could self-finance her campaign (to the tune of $1 million) while her daughter could not. Ruderman’s campaign insists she did not know her mother had funded the PAC, Progress for Washington, when…

The first negative mailer in the heavily-contested 1st Congressional District race hits Suzan DelBene, the front-running Democrat in dollars and endorsements, on her track record in business. Progressive For Washington, formed  June 25, sent out a $21,328 mailer describing DelBene as “part of the problem” for the middle-class because “nearly every business Suzan DelBene ran…