Another big oil company drops $100,000 into state Senate race
A second big oil company has cut a $100,000 check to support Republicans' bid to keep control of the Washington State Senate, in a special election on the Eastside which is becoming the most costly legislative race in Washington history.
Chevron has joined Phillips 66 in making a six-figure donation to a Republican front group backing GOP candidate Jinyoung Englund in the 45th District (Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Woodinville).
Curiously, the recipients of big money are spelling-challenged.
The donation to Enterprise Washington's Jobs PAC was recorded as coming from "Cheveron." Last month, the Phillips 66 donation was reported going to "Citizens for Progress Enterpise Washington." The "r" was left out of Enterprise.
A protege of U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and veteran Republican operative at a young age, Englund has raised $723,799 and spent $469,000, according to Public Disclosure Commission records.
But a bevy of Republican front groups has already -- before summer is half over -- poured in more than $1 million.
Much of the money has gone to attack ads, personal and nasty, directed at Democratic candidate Manka Dhingra, a King County senior deputy prosecutor who has lived in the district for two decades. (Englund has just recently moved in.) . One pro-Englund ad has used a picture of Dhingra's husband in a turban.
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