In March 1998, 19-year-old Jennifer Brinkman’s father came back from a vacation to find she had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">murdered</a> with an axe in her bedroom at their Marysville, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington">Washington</a>, home.
For nearly a quarter of a century, no one had been arrested in connection to Brinkman’s murder — until now.
On November 28, 2022, Jeffrey Paul Premo, 52, was arrested and charged with Brinkman’s murder.
“It’s one of those things where it never leaves your thought process because it continues to be unsolved,” Marysville Police Department Commander Robb Lamoureux, who was the original detective assigned to Brinkman’s murder, said at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarysvilleWAPolice/videos/1137485580225893/">a press conference</a> on Tuesday. “It wasn’t until yesterday when we made the arrest and I was sitting at home thinking about it that it really hit that we’ve got a conclusion to this and we’re finally able to put it on a shelf and have some closure not only for us as investigators who have been involved in it but the family and the community.”
Brinkman had stayed home when her father went on vacation to California in 1998, local paper The Telegraph <a href="https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/national/article269375862.html">reported</a>. The axe used to kill her had been left at the scene and police were able to collect DNA, but technology at the time wasn’t able to find a match.
But advancements in DNA technology made it possible to match the DNA collected from the axe to Premo, The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/suspect-arrested-in-1998-cold-case-killing-of-young-marysville-woman/">reported</a>.
Police knew that Brinkman used phone chat lines and dating sites. Detective Sgt. James Maples said at the press conference this week that she met Premo on one of these chat lines.
“Jennifer was a social individual,” Maples said. “She encouraged conversation as she would go to the library, walk around town. She engaged in telephone chat lines, dating sites, and actively sought companionship from people.”
Premo became a person of interest early in the investigation and initially denied knowing Brinkman, but back in 1998 police found a letter he had written to the victim, proving they had spoken prior to her murder. Police recently sent DNA from the crime scene to Parabon NanoLabs, which provides DNA forensic services to law enforcement. The company produced three possible suspects, one of whom was Premo. Police obtained a search warrant and collected Premo’s DNA to connect him to the crime, which, in addition to the letter and other evidence, provided probable cause for Premo’s arrest.
Brinkman’s father died in 2013, never knowing who murdered his daughter. Brinkman’s mother, who has not been named in media reports, was reportedly overwhelmed when she learned about Premo’s arrest, Commander Lamoureux said at the press conference.

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A Father Came Home 24 Years Ago To Find His Daughter Dead. A Man Was Just Arrested For The Crime.

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Washington

Washington state’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elementary-school-teacher-says-autistic-students-may-experience-gender-queerness-more-than-other-students">special education</a> schools are rife with student abuse allegations and poor academic performance, a new report shows.
A severe lack of state oversight has resulted in concerning conditions at a group of private but taxpayer-funded special education schools in Washington, according to a new <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/therapeutic-schools-northwest-soil-invisible-washington">investigative report</a> from the Seattle Times and ProPublica. The outlets reviewed more than 17,000 pages of documents from 45 school districts, three police departments, and Washington state’s education department.
The report scrutinizes a set of special ed private schools known as nonpublic agencies, which collectively pull in millions of taxpayer dollars.
While some of the schools do not have negative reputations, the largest school, Northwest School of Innovative Learning (SOIL), has produced a string of shocking reports of students suffering abuse at the hands of teachers and staff.
In one complaint to state education officials, a therapist said a teenage boy with severe autism was locked in a school room at Northwest SOIL for hours as he begged to be let out. One local education official reportedly witnessed a teacher put her foot in a student’s face as he lay on the floor and threaten to step on him as he pleaded with her. In another disturbing incident, a staffer who was previously convicted of assault and drug possession put a student in what a school counselor called a “chokehold,” an incident that was caught on security footage, according to the report.
Former staffers of Northwest SOIL described a chaotic and understaffed environment where the adults often resort to restraint or isolation to deal with difficult children. Parents reported finding bruises on their children’s bodies. 
Students also often suffer academically. Sometimes uncertified teachers operated without a curriculum, according to one special education director.
Meanwhile, over the last five school years, the state has spent at least $173 million on these special education schools, which have more than 60 campuses and serve about 500 students. State spending on these schools has more than doubled over the last five years, according to the report. Northwest SOIL alone has pulled in at least $38 million and accepted hundreds of public school students during this period, the report says.
Most of Washington&#8217;s about 140,000 special education students attend their local public schools, but lately the state has been sending more of the students with the most serious disabilities to the separate special education schools, the report notes.
One reason for the apparent lack of oversight is that the state expects local public school districts to monitor the special education schools since they are the ones sending students there. This makes it very difficult to get an overall sense of the conditions at these separate schools. 
Before two years ago, the state could not even count how many public school students attended the special education schools, the report states. Additionally, the goal of many of the special education programs is to have children ultimately return to their local schools, but the state does not track how many actually do so. The state also does not track how many children are restrained or locked in isolation rooms.
Washington state does have the power to force these schools to correct their issues or shut down, according to the report. So far though, the state has not taken any major action.

Special Education Teachers Visit E-learing Students At Home During COVID-19 Outbreak

Washington’s Special Ed Schools Rife With Abuse Complaints, Poor Academics: Report

Washington's Special Ed Schools Rife With Abuse Complaints, Poor Academics: Report

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Seattle

The Republican Party lost a key U.S. House seat Saturday evening in their quest to retake control of the House of Representatives as Joe Kent (R) lost to Marie Gluesenkamp (D) in Washington&#8217;s 3rd Congressional District.
The upset loss by Kent comes after former President Donald Trump pushed for Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) to be replaced during the primaries because she voted to impeach him.
Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/margommartin/status/1459674018202755075">said</a> in a November 13, 2021, statement that &#8220;any interest from good and SMART America First Republican Patriots to run primary campaigns against&#8221; Butler and other Republicans that voted to impeach him &#8220;will have my backing!&#8221;
Gluesenkamp&#8217;s victory over Kent, a former Green Beret and combat veteran, is an upset as Republicans were expected to win that race narrowly. In fact, this could be considered the first significant upset in the House as The New York Times&#8217; election tracker for House races shows that it is the only the only race where the side that was projected to win has not won.
In the 36 House races that the Times has listed as &#8220;Most Competitive Districts,&#8221; Democrats have won 20 of the races, Republicans have won six, and in the 10 races where a winner has not been declared, Democrats are currently up 6 to 4.
The loss of the seat increases the risk that Republicans may not retake control of the House of Representatives as they still need to win seven more seats to retake the chamber. Republicans are currently leading Democrats 211 to 202 in the House with 22 races still needing to be called.
This is a developing news story; refresh the page for updates.

Controversial Washington Congressional Candidate Joe Kent Holds Town Hall As He Campaigns For Office

GOP Loses Key House Seat After Trump Pushed To Remove The Incumbent Republican

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Incumbent Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray is projected to win re-election against Republican opponent Tiffany Smiley.
DecisionDeskHQ made the <a href="https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1590216584827916293">projection</a> at 12:35 a.m. EST.
The race in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington">deep-blue state</a> became increasingly close in the final weeks of the campaign with polls showing the five-term incumbent Murray with under 50% of the vote and Smiley, a nurse and veterans advocate, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-senate-race-now-a-toss-up-as-two-polls-show-republican-tiffany-smiley-tied-with-democrat-patty-murray">surging to tie</a> the longtime senator in several polls. 
Murray, 72, a former teacher who was first elected to the Senate in 1992 when Smiley was 9 years old, became vulnerable due to President Joe Biden’s unpopularity, lack of Democrat enthusiasm for her candidacy, and excitement from Washington Republicans. During a similar electoral environment in 1994, Washington voters elected a Republican to the Senate as the party swept to power nationally in the House and Senate.
During the campaign, Smiley, 39, a nurse and political outsider, tied Murray to Biden and the skyrocketing inflation that has come during his administration. She also <a href="https://www.smileyforwashington.com/agenda">focused</a> on crime, homelessness, domestic oil production, increasing border security, and promising to expand school choice. 
“I went to the border and I saw it with my own eyes,” Smiley said. “I saw the cartel boats. They put drugs in and just push over into the United States of America. We know that fentanyl is coming across our southern border, so that’s something I can get to work on right away on the federal level to help protect our kids in the state and help get drugs off the street,” she <a href="https://www.thereflector.com/stories/tiffany-smiley-seeks-to-become-washingtons-first-republican-us-senator-since-2001,301957">said</a> in a recent interview with The Reflector. 
A longtime advocate for better health care for veterans, Smiley, a mother of three boys, is married to Scotty Smiley, who was seriously injured while serving in the U.S. Army and fighting in Iraq. She made her personal story a large part of her campaign. 
Typically Republicans do not perform well in Washington at the state or national level, largely due to the large Democrat base in urban Seattle and Tacoma. Politics in the Evergreen State is typically viewed as a battle between the western urban portion of the city against the eastern rural part. 
In 2016, Murray won her previous Senate election with nearly 60% of the vote. Murray also dominated Washington’s open primary race earlier this year earning 52% of the vote to Smiley’s 34%. But in late October Smiley started surging into the mid-40s and Murray <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/wa/washington_senate_smiley_vs_murray-7400.html">dropped</a> below 50%, according to RealClearPolitics as election day approached. 
Both parties poured millions of dollars into the race as Republicans saw a rare opportunity in a blue state and Democrats rushed to defend Murrary, a top Democrat in the Senate. 
The race was one of the most <a href="https://www.kxly.com/the-murray-smiley-senate-race-may-be-washingtons-priciest-eve/">expensive</a> in Washington history, with Murray spending over $21 million and Smiley spending over $15 million. Throughout the campaign, both candidates claimed the mantle of the relatable “mom” that Washingtonians should send to the nation’s capital.
Like other races around the country, Washington’s Senate race showed similar trends with Democrats focusing in on abortion, promising to codify the now overturned Roe v. Wade while Republicans made inroads with demographics that historically have not voted for them. 
Polling from before the election <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sorry-everywhere-else-the-elections-going-to-come-down-to-king-county/">showed</a> Smiley with a 15-point advantage among Hispanics in one poll, and eight points in another poll. Polls also showed an education gap among supporters of the two candidates with college-educated people more likely to support Murray, while those with just high school degrees backed Smiley.

Tiffany Smiley:Patty Murray

Patty Murray Projected To Win Washington Senate Race Against Republican Tiffany Smiley

The Washington State Board of Education moved closer last week to requiring high schoolers to study “ethnic studies” in order to graduate&#8211;even as the activist who formally trained the board on the subject has been railing against Jews, downplaying the oppression they have faced and writing: “How do we hold white Jews who are complicit in Whiteness (racism) accountable when they use their Jewishness to try to cover their deeds?”
At its November 2 meeting, the board reviewed a <a href="https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Attachment.aspx?S=36030949&amp;AID=22531&amp;MID=1709">draft report</a> that forms one milestone on the journey to implementing mandatory ethnic studies. It said, &#8220;At the 2022 listening sessions, voices speaking against ethic [sic] studies were noticeable,&#8221; but that &#8220;The Board remains convinced that ethnic studies, implemented well, will benefit all students.&#8221; Prior to the meeting, the board sought to quell a firestorm by issuing a <a href="https://www.sbe.wa.gov/news/statement-ethnic-studies-grad-requirement">statement</a> that said that ethnic studies &#8220;is not&#8230; the idea that any race is superior to another; about blaming or making students feel guilty about their race or identity; [or] indoctrination.&#8221;
In March 2021, as another part of the path to requiring students to study the field, the Washington State Board of Education voted unanimously to <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/washington-ethnic-studies-graduation-requirement-gains-support-from-board-of-education/">require its own members</a> and staff to take eighteen hours of training from the nonprofit Washington Ethnic Studies Now (WAESN). But WAESN and its executive director, Tracy Castro-Gill, have recently been lashing out against Jews who have complained about their treatment in the curriculum and claiming that they have too much power with the school superintendent.
In an October 20 blog post on <a href="https://waethnicstudies.com/2022/10/20/jewishness-and-ethnic-studies-3/">“Jewishness and Ethnic Studies,”</a> Castro-Gill mulled “Jewish complicity with whiteness” and downplayed the oppression faced by Jews, saying, “Racially motivated hate crimes increased in 2020 while religious hate crimes decreased.” The blog post was one of several on the topic, with an <a href="https://waethnicstudies.com/2022/05/01/jewishness-and-ethnic-studies-2/">earlier installment</a> saying, “Why do some white Jews, in particular, insist that their experiences with oppression and genocide are somehow unique? There are far more examples of genocide among people of the global majority than white Jews.”
In another entry in WAESN’s series on “Jewishness and Ethnic Studies,” Castro-Gill wrote, &#8220;White Jewish people insisting on being included in a curriculum that has never been about them reeks of white privilege.” She noted that the Washington state development is reminiscent of what happened in California, in which Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/californias-new-ethnic-studies-curriculum-ignores-or-maligns-jews-trashes-capitalism">radical plan</a> following an outcry by Jewish groups, ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-requiring-ca-public-high-school-students-pass-ethnic-studies-course-to-graduate">signing</a> a slightly watered-down version.
“Members of California’s Jewish legislative caucus penned a letter denouncing the work of ethnic studies scholars of color saying, ‘We cannot support a curriculum that erases the American Jewish experience, fails to discuss antisemitism, reinforces negative stereotypes about Jews, singles out Israel for criticism, and would institutionalize the teaching of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-activist-teacher-got-away-with-shocking-behavior-for-years">antisemitic</a> stereotypes in our public schools,’” Castro-Gill write. “The thing is, ethnic studies, historically, has never been about Jewish Studies. The focus has always been on racially minoritized groups.”
Castro-Gill has played an instrumental role in making Seattle and Washington state schools some of the most politicized in the country. Earlier this year, the book &#8220;Race To The Bottom&#8221; highlighted how the “Xicanx” education activist was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-seattle-schools-woke-indoctrination-czar-who-married-a-child-molester">three-quarters white and moved her child in with a child molester</a>.
Castro-Gill worked for the Seattle Public Schools as its Ethnic Studies Manager until May 2020, when the superintendent said she was removing her from her job because of &#8220;unprofessional behavior.&#8221; But Castro-Gill fell upwards, gaining an influential role over statewide education instead.
By 2022, the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) counted WAESN’s trainings as eligible for professional development credit, meaning Castro-Gill&#8217;s group was paid to provide <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-school-teachers-earn-professional-credits-by-learning-critical-race-theory">training to teachers</a>. And Washington State <a href="https://www.k12.wa.us/sites/default/files/public/socialstudies/EthnicStudies/WashingtonEthnicStudiesFramework.pdf">Ethnic Studies Framework</a>, which guides the state’s engagement with the field, thanked Castro-Gill for working “with the Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee to inform the creation of the Washington State Ethnic Studies Framework and accompanying materials and resources.”
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<h1>“How do you propose to end racial injustice in OSPI by holding anti-racist leaders accountable to ‘professional conduct standards’ steeped in White Supremacy Culture?”</h1>
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In December 2021, WAESN <a href="https://waethnicstudies.com/2021/12/07/action-needed-ospi-retaliates-against-waesn/">said</a> that OSPI had &#8220;removed WAESN from a list of ethnic studies professional development (PD) resources,&#8221; with Superintendent Chris Reykdal writing that it was because he had &#8220;received complaints regarding content posted by WAESN that was offensive, inflammatory, and targeted at education partners.” WAESN said Castro-Gill planned to bombard him with daily emails asking questions like, “How do you propose to end racial injustice in OSPI by holding anti-racist leaders accountable to ‘professional conduct standards’ steeped in White Supremacy Culture?”
In an April blog post, Castro-Gill provided some possible insight into the breakdown, saying she &#8220;raised concern over the Washington State’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s (OSPI) actions in the development of the state’s ethnic studies framework that included granting <a href="https://waethnicstudies.com/2022/04/01/jewishness-and-ethnic-studies/">white, Jewish organizations</a> and individuals the authority to vet and veto the work of people of color.&#8221;
OSPI (which is separate from the state board of education) said in a statement that &#8220;When it became clear to us in recent years that WAESN was not just an education-focused organization, but also a political one &#8212; and that they had used their platform to make disparaging comments about others &#8212; we took action to remove their materials from our website in places where the organization was listed as a resource for schools and educators.&#8221;
But it noted that &#8220;Washington&#8217;s school districts have the authority to make their own decisions about the curricula and curricular materials to be used in their classrooms.&#8221;
Indeed, Castro-Gill still has inroads into schools through many other forums. On October 22, at a 15th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference <a href="https://nwtsj.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/15th_Program2022.pdf">panel</a> co-hosted by the local teachers union, Castro-Gill discussed &#8220;Ongoing attacks on ethnic studies led by Zionists and white Jews&#8221;&#8211;during the Sabbath, when observant Jews could not attend.
Castro-Gill did not return a request for comment.
Stephanie Davidsmeyer, a spokeswoman for the state board of education, said, &#8220;We are also not working with WAESN in any professional capacity currently.&#8221; She added that all of the board&#8217;s staff and members had already completed their 18 hours of training with WAESN.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-seattle-schools-woke-indoctrination-czar-who-married-a-child-molester">Meet The Seattle Schools Woke Indoctrination Czar Who Married A Child Molester</a>

Tracy Castro-Gill

Washington State Gears Up To Mandate ‘Ethnic Studies’ As Its Architect Rails Against ‘Jewish Complicity’

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Police in Thurston County, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington</a>, have released the audio of a chilling 911 call from a woman who was allegedly buried alive by her estranged husband.
Young An, 42, managed to call 911 using her Apple Watch after her husband, Chae An, 53, allegedly bound and gagged her with duct tape, KIRO 7 <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/authorities-release-audio-911-call-made-by-lacey-woman-before-being-buried-alive-by-husband/G5JRYAMMUNGCTIOX7LM3M253AI/?fbclid=IwAR0m1PkUaruScZg2R5ENsgUcB05u6ShQcL-zc5LwwF2f4hNP2FF-e5bYyy0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Chae had left the bedroom after binding Young, allowing her to make the call, which lasted about 7 minutes and consisted of the dispatcher asking Young questions and Young responding with muffled screams.
“Can you hear me?” the dispatcher asked Young, who appeared to try to yell “Yes! Yes!” through the duct tape covering her mouth.
The dispatcher asked Young what was going on and said she would send help and stay on the line before asking if Young was hurt.
At some point during the call, Chae allegedly dragged Young into the garage and smashed her Apple Watch with a hammer – while it was still on her wrist.
&#8220;The dispatch was an ‘unknown trouble call,’&#8221; Sgt. Shannon Barnes <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspected-washington-kidnapper-speeds-past-police-car-wife-tied-up-back-of-van-video-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News on Wednesday. &#8220;So, he had no information about anything he was walking into.&#8221;
Chae had managed to abduct his wife before the police arrived. They found the garage door to the house open. The resident’s children arrived a short time later and said they had last seen their parents at the home about half an hour earlier.
Police searched the home and found no one, but soon learned that Young had a domestic violence protection order against Chae, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-survives-being-buried-alive-says-husband-was-trying-to-kill-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Police issued an Endangered Missing Persons Alert and canvassed the neighborhood. A security camera caught Chae pulling into the home’s garage and shutting the door briefly, but he left just before officers arrived.
About 12 hours after police first arrived at the home, someone in another neighborhood awoke to find Young banging on their door and pleading for help, telling the resident “my husband is trying to kill me,” according to a declaration of probable cause <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/washington-state-woman-buried-alive-estranged-husband-manages-escape-s-rcna53232" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained by NBC News</a>.
Thurston County deputies responded to the scene and found that Young had sustained non-life-threatening injuries. Young told detectives that Chae had kidnapped her from her home and taken into the woods.
“She had duct tape still wrapped around her neck, lower face and ankles,” detectives wrote in the court filing. “There was extensive bruising to her legs, arms and head and her clothing and hair were covered in dirt.”
Young reportedly told police that Chae had taken her after they spoke about their ongoing divorce. He allegedly bound her hands behind her back with duct tape, placed duct tape over her eyes, legs, and ankles, and dragged her into the garage. She told police that he drove her to the woods and heard him digging in the dirt before stabbing her in the chest.
“She was drug and put into the ground. … A heavy tree was put on top of her,” a court filing said, according to NBC. “After being put into the ground she could hear her husband walking around the hole and dirt being put on top of her.”
Young said she had difficulty breathing, but kept moving around to keep the dirt off her face. She told police she believed she was in the shallow grave for hours, and was able to wiggle free from the duct tape after night fell. She was then able to see the van Chae drove with a light still on. She said she ran for about 30 minutes to find help.
Young also told investigators that her husband had previously threatened to kill her, saying he would “rather kill her than give her his retirement money,” in the divorce.
Investigators were able to corroborate the woman’s story by finding the shallow grave where she was buried.
“The hole appeared to be freshly dug. Outside the hole was a piece of duct tape,” police wrote in the court filing.
Chae has pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree murder, first-degree domestic violence kidnapping, and first-degree domestic violence assault.

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Police Release 911 Call From Woman Allegedly Buried Alive By Estranged Husband

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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democratic candidate running to represent Washington’s third congressional district, was asked this week about biological males competing in girls sports, surprising some with her response. 
Her Republican opponent, Joe Kent, tweeted a video of her answering a question during a debate with Kent. A woman in the audience asked her about boy playing on girls’ sports teams, and continued to press for a definitive answer. 
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When asked about biological men in girls&#39; sports, <a href="https://twitter.com/MGPforCongress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MGPforCongress</a> tried to hide her support for it by pretending not to understand the question and then insulting the female voter who asked it. <a href="https://t.co/fRZ3Mhofqx">pic.twitter.com/fRZ3Mhofqx</a>
&mdash; Joe Kent for Congress (@JoeKentCampaign) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKentCampaign/status/1587977771799949312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“Do you support biological males competing in biological female sports?” she was <a href="https://twitter.com/joekentcampaign/status/1587977771799949312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a>. 
Perez paused before answering the question, as audience members began to react. 
“Um, I think, that is — the — it’s complicated, it depends, when did they transition? What are their hormone levels?” she answered. “I mean, when you really look at — athletes have all different natural hormone levels so it is a nuanced question.”
The woman in the audience asked, “So yes, you do support that?”
“It depends on the scenario,” Perez answered as people in the crowd shouted for her to answer yes or no. 
“We’re faced with situations where it’s either a yes or no,” the woman who asked the question continued. “Either the biological male competes or the biological male does not compete with women and so we have to make that decision.”
“Yeah,” Perez answered, “I don’t think you’re understanding the nuance of these issues.”
Last week, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) campaigned for Kent in Washington, although Kent has been outspoken against Republican leadership in the past. Kent took on incumbent Republican Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler and <a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/09/herrera-beutler-concedes-in-southwest-washington-us-house-primary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beat</a> her in the primary. 
“The Republicans &#8230; the corporate GOP, they’re absolute snakes and we need to root them out,” Kent said at a town hall in July. “We have Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, these guys really want to see Jaime Herrera Beutler go forward. &#8230; They want to be able to say ‘Hey, this Trump America First thing, that was a flash in the pan.’”
Kent changed his position and said in October that he will back McCarthy if he is the only Republican candidate suitable to be House Majority Leader. 
“I feel that my job and everybody else in the America First movement, our job with speaker McCarthy is to say ‘Hey, we’re here to support you and we want you to be successful,’” Kent said at an October event. “But you need to reflect these priorities.”
Several states have passed laws to protect girls’ sports at the high school and college level as the transgender movement pushes to allow children to play on teams based on their gender expression. 
According to <a href="https://savewomenssports.com/state-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Save Women’s Sports</a>, there have been bills in almost every state to safeguard female athletes, and eighteen of them have turned into laws.

Runners compete in a 5k at sunset in Corona, California.

Democratic Washington Congressional Candidate Doesn’t Give Definitive Answer On Boys Playing In Girls Sports

Democratic Washington Congressional Candidate Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Doesn't Give Definitive Answer On Boys Playing In Girls Sports

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Bikini baristas in Everett, Washington, won their long-standing case against a city ordinance that would bar them from baring skin while bearing beverages.
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Seattle&#39;s bikini baristas WIN case allowing skimpy coffeeshop outfits <a href="https://t.co/P1If2xq42w">https://t.co/P1If2xq42w</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/MailOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MailOnline</a>
&mdash; Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoSnerdley/status/1587083348052254721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2022</a></blockquote>
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While the court rejected a claim the city law violated the First Amendment rights of Hillbilly Hotties staffers, saying that serving coffee while nearly naked is not protected expression, it found the ordinance created different standards for men and women.
&#8220;This Ordinance clearly treats women differently than men by banning a wide variety of women&#8217;s clothing, not just pasties and g-strings, or bikinis,&#8221; U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez wrote in an Oct. 19 <a href="https://casetext.com/case/edge-v-city-of-everett-3">ruling</a> for the baristas. &#8220;The restrictions are so detailed they effectively prescribe the clothes to be worn by women in quick service facilities.&#8221;
The owner and a handful of employees of the coffee stand sued in 2017 after Everett enacted the law requiring all employees, owners and operators of “quick service facilities” to wear clothing that covers the upper and lower body. The plaintiffs claimed the law was unconstitutionally vague and also violated the First Amendment. A federal judge issued an injunction blocking enforcement of the ordinance pending a ruling, but in 2019, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed that decision, and gave the lower court a framework for interpreting the First Amendment claim.
Martinez found the ordinance did not violate the First Amendment, but said it could “encourage a humiliating, intrusive, and demoralizing search on women, disempowering them and stripping them of their freedom.&#8221;
“Assuming the owners of bikini barista stands are unable or unwilling to enforce this dress code, at some point law enforcement will be asked to measure exposure of skin by some method,” Martinez wrote.
The city claimed it passed the ordinance because the coffee stand was contributing to crime. Police reported that baristas allowed customers &#8220;to photograph and/or touch them for a fee, performed sexual ‘shows,&#8217; openly advertised prostitution activities, and allowed customers to masturbate while watching them perform, all within public view.”
That was enough to override any claim that serving coffee in the buff was free expression, the judge ruled. But crafting a law the enforcement of which would require police to measure the skin exposed by female employees was a bridge too far, according to Martinez.
One barista hailed the ruling, saying the police should not be enforcing dress codes.
“I think this protects our safety from law enforcement touching our body,” she said. “Who’s approving my outfit? Is it my female boss or some random dude cop that I don’t know? I don’t want them having to stick a ruler next to my body.”

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The race to represent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington">Washington</a> state in the U.S. Senate is now a toss-up, according to RealClearPolitics&#8217; projections.
RealClearPolitics changed its <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/elections-map.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate projection</a> for the Washington Senate seat Sunday from &#8220;leans Dem&#8221; to &#8220;toss-up.&#8221; The move comes as two polls showed Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley tied with incumbent Democrat Patty Murray. A survey from the Trafalgar Group showed the race in a statistical tie, while another poll from the Moore Information Group (MIG) also showed a dead heat.
&#8220;The race for U.S. Senate in Washington is now tied,&#8221; <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13619SmIBjGJh1z4EgsJybxbf3MSvb0md/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moore Information Group</a> said in a press release announcing the results. &#8220;Tiffany Smiley has caught up to 30-year incumbent Senator Patty Murray and the race is now dead even at 46 percent Smiley and 46 percent Murray, eliminating the four percent advantage enjoyed by Murray in September (48 to 44 percent).&#8221;
The poll also found that Murray&#8217;s net favorability rating had sunk -3 points, down from -1 in the previous poll. In September, the survey found Murray&#8217;s favorability rating was 44% favorable and 45% unfavorable; in October, that rating had shifted from 45% favorable to 48% unfavorable. Smiley, meanwhile, still has a net favorability rating of 3 points, 44%-41%. That number was up from last month when her favorable rating was 37%-34%.
The poll also found that Smiley would likely benefit from the 8% of undecided voters, but 80% of them said the country was off on the &#8220;wrong track,&#8221; MIG reported. Undecided voters were firmly against Murray and President Joe Biden: among undecideds, just 18% favored Murray, while 47% had an unfavorable opinion; just 30% of undecideds approved of Biden&#8217;s job performance, while 60% disapproved. The top issues for those voters were crime, which 18 percent of voters said was most important, and &#8220;controlling government spending and taxes,&#8221; which topped the list for 16% of undecideds.
&#8220;In wave election years, the national political environment is often the key to flipping Senate seats and right now, the Washington Senate race has become ground zero for a wave election upset,&#8221; the press release stated.
The poll surveyed 500 likely voters between October 20-22.
The Moore Information Group poll followed another survey by the <a href="https://www.thetrafalgargroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WA-General-Poll-Report-1029.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trafalgar Group</a>, which found Smiley and Murray in a statistical tie. According to the poll of 1,207 likely voters conducted between October 25-28, Murray leads Smiley 49.4%-48.2%. That lead was well within the poll&#8217;s 2.9% margin of error, and 2.4% of voters were undecided. Notably, the poll heavily favored Democrats: they made up 44.2% of voters sampled, while 33.4% were Republicans, and 22.4% were independents.
Democrats have poured <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-pour-millions-into-washington-senate-race-as-republican-challenger-tiffany-smiley-gains-momentum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">millions of dollars</a> into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington">Washington</a> Senate race to hand Murray a sixth term in office. The Seattle Times reported earlier this week that Murray’s campaign had spent more than $17 million on the race, while Smiley’s has spent over $10 million.
According to a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/26/democrats-washington-patty-murray-senate-00063447">Politico</a> report, Murray and her campaign dropped $1.5 million in ads with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And in recent days, she reportedly received approximately $6.5 million from EMILY’s List, a pro-abortion super PAC group, which also spent most of the funds on television advertisements.
According to Politico, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has spent $750,000 in Washington.
“Tiffany Smiley is running an incredible campaign, and she’s got 30-year incumbent Patty Murray and national Democrats running scared,” NRSC spokesman Chris Hartline said.
Brandon Drey contributed to this report.

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By way of threats and alleged assault, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> activists on Wednesday reportedly forced a group of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/womens-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">women&#8217;s rights</a> demonstrators to shutter their &#8220;Let Women Speak&#8221; rally in Tacoma, Washington.
Women&#8217;s rights campaigner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-feminist-tells-transgender-activist-who-identifies-as-mother-not-to-use-womens-spaces-in-heated-confrontation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellie-Jay Keen</a>, who headed the event, told The Daily Wire the &#8220;Let Women Speak&#8221; speaking tour is intended to allow women who&#8217;ve been silenced online for bucking radical transgender orthodoxy to make their voices heard &#8220;in the actual public square&#8221; — though on Wednesday the women were shut down in-person, too.
&#8220;The USA is failing to uphold the First Amendment at the behest of this odious and most insidious quasi-religious cult called transgenderism,&#8221; Keen blasted. &#8220;Women must be protected to speak about the eraser of our spaces, our rights, and the words we use to define ourselves.&#8221;
Keen claimed the Tacoma Police Department (TPD) &#8220;failed to show up until the 23rd call for help,&#8221; adding that video of an assault led to at least one arrest.
&#8220;April Morrow was assaulted when a man grabbed her hand and crushed it in order to steal her phone and smash it,&#8221; Keen said. &#8220;She has suspected broken fingers and is seeking further medical attention today [Thursday]. The footage was given to police and he was promptly arrested.&#8221;
&#8220;As women&#8217;s rights activists were dispersing the <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX">@StandingforXX</a> rally in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 26, far-left pro-<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trans?src=hashtag_click">#trans</a> protesters surrounded &amp; assaulted a middle-aged lesbian caught in the middle,&#8221; The Post Millennial&#8217;s editor-at-large Andy Ngo captioned video from the event. &#8220;She had an arm injury that required treatment. The male assailants escaped on foot.&#8221;
The Daily Wire reached out to the TPD for comment, and heard back from the department&#8217;s public information officer Wendy Haddow soon after publication.
&#8220;The Tacoma Police Department had officers on scene monitoring the event,&#8221; Haddow said via email. &#8220;Police responded to calls from victims wanting to report a crime. This included a victim who reported an assault and damage to a cell phone. An arrest was made of a 27-year-old male, and the suspect was booked into jail.&#8221;
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As women&#39;s rights activists were dispersing the <a href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StandingforXX</a> rally in Tacoma, WA on Oct. 26, far-left pro-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#trans</a> protesters surrounded &amp; assaulted a middle-aged lesbian caught in the middle. She had an arm injury that required treatment. The male assailants escaped on foot. <a href="https://t.co/bZF2aNyjN7">pic.twitter.com/bZF2aNyjN7</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1585502257033793537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Another video from the event shows a male sneaking up on a female speaker before being stopped by another quick-acting female demonstrator.
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A &#39;stunning and brave&#39; maIe attempts to assauIt a woman. With cat like reflexes. Amanzing <a href="https://twitter.com/KnownHeretic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KnownHeretic</a> jumps in to block him. What a Shero!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomenSpeak</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeakUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomenSpeakUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/gCfisi3vyR">pic.twitter.com/gCfisi3vyR</a>
&mdash; SFW Kellie-Jay Keen #AdultHumanFemale (@StandingforXX) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1585352747528122369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Numerous high school students came to try to shut down the women&#8217;s rights demonstrators, too, Keen told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Nearby high school students screamed obscenities in the faces of women who gathered to speak,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;Along with other protesters they circled around us and started to push us until we deemed it too unsafe to continue.&#8221;
&#8220;This was made worse by the fact that their principal would not ask them to go inside, he said it would make things worse for himself,&#8221; the activist noted. &#8220;He also confirmed that boys use girls private spaces in that school and that it was state law.&#8221;
After the shuttered rally, Haddow said the department &#8220;received a report from a victim reporting they had been pepper sprayed while at the event&#8221; and a report was taken. &#8220;The adult female suspect had already left the scene. No arrest has been made at this time.&#8221;
&#8220;Today we were advised three students from a nearby school were pepper sprayed during the event,&#8221; the officer added. &#8220;An employee from the school called 911 today. The investigation is ongoing.&#8221;
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After an assault, threat to kiII and the police <a href="https://twitter.com/TacomaPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TacomaPD</a> refusing to attend, the only option was to end the event. 
I repeat, <a href="https://twitter.com/TacomaPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TacomaPD</a> would not protect women. Footage by <a href="https://twitter.com/KnownHeretic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KnownHeretic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomenSpeak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomenSpeak</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LetWomwenSpeakUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LetWomwenSpeakUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/DKa3HOtcHL">pic.twitter.com/DKa3HOtcHL</a>
&mdash; SFW Kellie-Jay Keen #AdultHumanFemale (@StandingforXX) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandingforXX/status/1585369340798730240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Joe Kennedy, the Washington state high school football coach who lost his job in 2015 for praying on the field after games, will be reinstated by March 15, 2023.
The news comes after Kennedy&#8217;s Supreme Court victory in June that ruled 6-3 that the coach was within his constitutional rights when he prayed at midfield after games.
“Bremerton School District shall not interfere with or prohibit Kennedy from offering a prayer consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion,” the attorneys wrote in the filing, <a href="https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2022/10/27/19711039654116.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> court records. Some details remain in discussion, with the filing stating, “The parties disagree on the specific wording of this portion of the injunction.”
The documents also note the &#8220;Bremerton School District cannot retaliate against or take any future adverse employment action against Kennedy for conduct that complies with the terms of the Court’s Order.&#8221;
In a filing on Tuesday by both sides involved in the case, court records were submitted to U.S. District Court for Western District of Washington Judge Robert Lasnik that state Kennedy would be reinstated to his previous position. Kennedy served as assistant coach of the Bremerton High School football team before the controversy surrounding his post-game prayers.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority ruling in the June decision seven years after the events.
“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech,&#8221; ” Gorsuch <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/high-school-football-coach-scores-big-win-supreme-court-post-game-prayer">wrote</a>. &#8220;The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”
Kennedy began serving as an assistant coach in 2008 and started the tradition of kneeling at the 50-yard line in prayer after each game. Some students voluntarily joined him at times.
The practice became an issue when a school administrator addressed the prayers in 2015, and Kennedy was placed on administrative leave.
Kennedy lost in both the district court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court turned down the case in 2019, sending the case back to the District Court, which sided with the previous rulings.
After the 9th Circuit Court again ruled against Kennedy, his legal team, First Liberty Institute, and Kirkland &amp; Ellis, resubmitted the case to the Supreme Court in 2021, and it was accepted.
“This is just so awesome.  All I’ve ever wanted was to be back on the field with my guys,&#8221; Kennedy <a href="https://firstliberty.org/donation/fye-2022-kennedy-victory-popup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the court victory.
“I am incredibly grateful to the Supreme Court, my fantastic legal team, and everyone who has supported us,” he added. “I thank God for answering our prayers and sustaining my family through this long battle.”

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Democrats have poured millions of dollars into the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington">Washington</a> Senate race, a deep-blue state that recent polls suggest Republicans may take back the seat that a GOP member hasn&#8217;t occupied since 2001.
Sen. Pat Murray, the state&#8217;s Democrat leader seeking a sixth term, has been campaigning against political newcomer Republican Tiffany Smiley.
The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/patty-murray-tiffany-smiley-spar-over-crime-abortion-climate-at-wa-senate-debate/">reports</a> Murray&#8217;s campaign has spent more than $17 million on the race, while Smiley&#8217;s has spent over $10 million.
Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, ran a Monday <a href="https://twitter.com/natalie_allison/status/1584616115015413760?s=20&amp;t=eZpFFmAgNfDVFut_4PV49w">poll</a> showing a 6-point race between Murray and Smiley.
David Bossie, president of Citizens United, told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/26/democrats-washington-patty-murray-senate-00063447">Politico</a> the race &#8220;should not be a contest,&#8221; considering Murray won the state with 59% support in 2016 and President Biden with 58% in 2020.
&#8220;Washington state is not a purple state. It is not a marginal state. It is a deep-blue state. To be having this conversation is a bad omen for Democrats,&#8221; he said.
According to a Politico report, Murray and her campaign dropped $1.5 million in ads with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. And in recent days, she reportedly received approximately $6.5 million from EMILY&#8217;s List, a pro-abortion Super PAC group, which also spent most of the funds on television advertisements.
&#8220;With Republicans threatening a national abortion ban, we need Patty Murray more than ever,&#8221; Benjamin Ray, EMILY&#8217;s List spokesman, told the publication, adding the Democrat Senator is &#8220;a trailblazer and a champion for women&#8217;s freedom to control their own bodies.&#8221;
According to Politico, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has spent $750,000 in Washington.
&#8220;Tiffany Smiley is running an incredible campaign, and she&#8217;s got 30-year incumbent Patty Murray and national Democrats running scared,&#8221; Hartline said.
During a debate Sunday night, Smiley blamed Murray for the many issues that have plagued the state and country, noting Murray&#8217;s 30-year career in politics.
&#8220;Crime&#8217;s out of control; Patty Murray is to blame,&#8221; Smiley said, according to The Seattle Times. &#8220;Sen. Murray and Joe Biden have shown extreme weakness on the world stage,&#8221; referring to the war in Ukraine.
Smiley further noted on the debate stage that Murray and the D.C. establishment have caused the Southern border crisis, which she said has allowed China to push &#8220;components of fentanyl across.&#8221;
Despite left-wing money funding smear campaigns on Smiley, the Republican challenger told Murray to disavow her campaign&#8217;s &#8220;dangerous rhetoric that has spent millions of dollars to attack and paint her&#8221; as a so-called threat to democracy.
Last week, the Seattle Times poll published a poll that showed Murray losing ground as Smiley has found solid footing in the Pacific Northwestern state.
Murray holds an 8-point lead over Smiley showing 49% to 41%, according to SurveyUSA&#8217;s latest polling conducted exclusively for The Seattle Times. In July, Murray was at 51% and won the primary at 52%.
Smiley, however, gained substantial support over the same course jumping from 33% to 41%, including earning half of the Independent voter&#8217;s support compared to Murray&#8217;s 34 percent.
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We are 15 days from Election Day and the choice before Washingtonians is clear &#8211; motivation and principle versus a 30 year career politician. 
I encourage everyone to vote and make their voices heard this November! <a href="https://t.co/DXK6sCepAH">pic.twitter.com/DXK6sCepAH</a>
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