Democrat House candidate accused of refusing breathalyzer, charged with DUI

OLYMPIA [Jake Goldstein-Street] — Authorities charged a Washington state House candidate Thursday with impaired driving that resulted in a five-car crash in Tacoma earlier in the week. Krista Perez, 40, is accused of driving her pickup truck into a parked car, causing a chain reaction that left three other cars damaged in the 3700 block of […]
Democrat lawmaker Tarra Simmons hit with $15K fine in ethics case

OLYMPIA [Jerry Cornfield] — Washington state Rep. Tarra Simmons was fined $15,000 on Friday by a state ethics panel for improperly using her position to steer public funds to a nonprofit where she worked and trying to retaliate against the person who initiated the investigation against her. The Legislative Ethics Board concluded the Bremerton Democrat […]
Let’s Go Washington now under formal PDC investigation over alleged $1.25M in-kind ads to Brandi Kruse

OLYMPIA — The Washington State Public Disclosure Commission opened a formal investigation into Let’s Go Washington after an initial hearing on August 12, 2026, into allegations that the political action committee failed to report between $345,000 and $1.25 million in in-kind political advertising linked to political commentator Brandi Kruse and host of unDivided. The committee […]