U.S. Sens. Max Baucus, left, and Jon Tester, right, talk to fellow Democrats on Saturday in Helena.

HELENA – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has been here before.

Back during the Clinton era, the Democrat faced a choice: support an assault weapons ban urged by a president from his own party and risk angering constituents who cherish their gun rights, or buck his party. He chose the ban, and nearly lost his Senate seat.

Now, as he begins his campaign for a seventh term, Baucus faces the question again. For weeks, gun foes have sought assurances he would oppose the assault weapons ban. But it was only this past week he said he would oppose it. Continued

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On the issue of the death penalty,why is it that democrats defend the lives of murderers and child molesters but not the lives of the innocent unborn? Why does the cost of government concern democrats only when dealing with the worst of criminals’ right to life? Republicans, call your representatives today and tell them,”DON’T SUPPORT HB 1504.”  See article below.

Secondly tell your representatives,“DON’T SUPPORT HB 1044” This bill requires all insurance policies that cover any maternity coverage to also cover abortions.

Third on our list is “SUPPORT”HB House Bill 1619 to suspend GMA requirements in counties with persistent unemployment.

Today’s death penalty concern is submitted by SJC SCM Levi Rawls.Thanks Levi!

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Bill to abolish death penalty gets hearing:

The Washington state House heard Rep. Reuven Carlyle’s bill revoking capital punishment in the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, a rare feat given that death-penalty bills usually go nowhere.
By Amelia Dickson Seattle Times Olympia Bureau

OLYMPIA — Every year for the past five years, Rep. Reuven Carlyle has sponsored a bill that would eliminate Washington’s death penalty. And every year the bill went nowhere.But this year, the Seattle Democrat’s bill managed to get a public hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. On Wednesday, lobbyists from several organizations — including the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters and the Faith Action Network — testified in favor of the bill, along with several individuals whose family members had been murdered. No one testified against the bill.

Although capital punishment has been briefly banned from time to time through legislative action and court rulings, it has been legal for most of Washington’s statehood. The Legislature most recently passed a law legalizing the death penalty in 1981, and since then 32 people have been placed on death row. Five have been executed. The last time capital punishment was used in Washington was the 2010 execution of Cal Coburn Brown, convicted of the 1991 murder of a Seattle woman. Continued