The morning before the Legislature's house-of-origin cutoff started off normally enough, with this piece by Jerry Cornfield in the Everett Herald (since overtaken by events and updated, here) exploring both sides of the so-called "Worker Privacy Act" as it gets down to crunch time.
Then this blog post from Niki Sullivan at TVW's Capitol Record: "'Worker privacy' bill is dead after e-mail linking contributions to votes." (Since updated, here).
That still remains about all anyone knows (or can say) about the issue. It's now shrouded in cloak and dagger talk of pending criminal investigations, undue influence, bribery and intimidation. Press conferences have been scheduled, then cancelled.
Cornfield provides an updated timeline here.
Adam Wilson (The Olympian) comments on the matter here (with an update here). His colleague Brad Shannon, here.
Joe Turner at the News Tribune here. The Seattle Times' Politics Northwest blog here. Rich Roesler (Spokesman-Review) here.
EFF takes a look here and here.
UPDATED: AWB has released a statement on these developments here.
The Washington State Labor Council has released a statement here.
