Wealthy conservatives throw in late on targeted House, Senate races

Lyft political spending tops $500K; Inslee still working small donors for cash

Today we’re tracking a raft of late spending on Republican candidates in key House and Senate races by a previously low-profile political action committee called Concerned Taxpayers of Washington State.

The group, founded in 2018 by Steve Gordon of Tacoma, who owns a bunch of commercial truck dealerships, says it arose out of alarm over Seattle’s ill-fa…