campaign finance

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a campaign finance lawsuit involving the 2014 campaign for Grant County prosecutor. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Thurston County Superior Court against former Grant County Superior Court Judge Jerry Moberg and Moses Lake business owner Ken Greene...

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Campaign finance complaints have been filed by the attorney general's office against two lawmakers and a former legislative candidate. The separate complaints against Democratic Reps. Strom Peterson and Jeff Morris and former candidate Sharlaine LaClair, announced Monday, were filed in Thurston County Court last week...

OLYMPIA  (AP) — The executive director of the state's campaign finance watchdog says she's stepping down in May. In a phone interview Tuesday, Evelyn Fielding Lopez — who was appointed to the position at the Public Disclosure Commission in October 2015 — said that she wants to pursue other interests, including possibly participating in local politics in Tacoma, where she lives...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington House has passed a resolution calling on Congress to have a constitutional convention addressing concerns with the U.S. Supreme Court decision governing campaign finance that's known as Citizens United. ...