This one almost got past me: Pridemore tossed under the bus... and off Ways and Means.

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This off of Aneurin's blog,

Monday, December 8, 2008

Pridemore booted off of Ways & Means

Newspapers around the state are reporting on the purge of Sen. Craig Pridemore from Senate Ways & Means:

Another interesting change is that Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver, is no longer the number 2 Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Medina, is the new vice-chairman. This is likely a response to Pridemore's ill-fated phone calls in search of potential support to replace Sen. Margarita Prentice as chairwoman.

For whatever reason, this isn't important enough to hit the pages of The Columbian. This is a pretty big hit to Southwest Washington, especially in light of huge upcoming budget cuts. So if Clark College or WSU Vancouver is found to be taking inordinate budget hits, you'll know why.

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The buzz I get is that Margarita Prentice didn't take lightly to Craig's phone calls around to try and round up support for a coup.

Craig, dude... it's OK to kill the king, but you'd better make damned sure the king is dead.

Good luck at whatever backwater job you wind up with.

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