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Democrats in Washington state, like their counterparts in the other Washington, don’t always think the law applies to them. They can create elaborate procedures to trip up Republicans in, say, election law. But those requirements are quite optional where they are concerned.

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On the other side, which calls itself Safer Spokane, all we can see from above the surface is a few hearty activists hoping against hope to defy the Commerce Clause and various other federal trade laws for negligible benefit and the hapless retired accountant who functions as their treasurer but supposedly did not realize political committees had to file campaign finance reports.

That and the fact that somehow the group has received just $4,800 in donations and spent less than $2,000, but it has billboards up all over town that cost at least $1,500 per month.



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