State Sen. Liz Lovelett and state Rep. Alex Ramel, both Democrats from the 40th District, far outdistance their opponents in campaign fundraising, according to the latest campaign finance reports on file with the state Public Disclosure Commission….
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OLYMPIA – On Thursday, April 2, Gov. Jay Inslee signed bipartisan legislation (House Bill 2587) to designate and promote the use of scenic bikeways across Washington. The program is modeled after a successful program in Oregon which generates $12 million in revenue from 90,000 scenic bikeways program users each year.
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Following Rep. Jeff Morris’ November 2019 resignation from his position in Washington’s 40th District, Alex Ramel of Bellingham will take over the vacant seat.
“A big congratulations to Alex Ramel on his newly appointed role as my seatmate in Washington’s State House of Representatives for the 40th Legislative District,” Rep. Debra Lekanoff — who defeated Ramel for her current seat in the August 2018 election — wrote in a press release.
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lex Ramel has been appointed to serve out the remainder of Rep. Jeff Morris’ term in the Washington House of Representatives for the 40th Legislative District. The Skagit Board of County Commissioners met in a special joint meeting this week with their counterparts on Whatcom County Council and San Juan County Council to select among three names offered to replace Morris, who resigned late last year after representing the district for 22 years.
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Alex Ramel has packed a lot of green activism into his life, from chairing the Kulshan Community Land Trust in Bellingham, to heading the local chapter of Washington Conservation Voters, to demonstrating with son Alden against oil trains and joining the protest outside Donald Trump's 2016 rally in Lynden.
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Last month, the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal issued a profound ruling in the Trans Mountain Pipeline case. The planned project would have tripled the capacity of the existing pipeline to transport tar sands crude oil from Alberta to British Columbia, and contributed to a 700 percent increase in tar sands tanker traffic in the Salish Sea — straight through critical orca feeding habitat.
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The blue coasts and islands of the 40th Legislative District are progressive indeed, and growing more so year after year as the most liberal sections of south Bellingham are peeled off and cast south through successive attempts to balance populations among the state’s representative districts.
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