White, Vaska up for US Attorney job

According to a post by the P-I's Joel Connelly (linked above), former north Seattle Congressman Rick White and 2004 attorney general candidate Michael Vaska are pursuing the US Attorney spot for western Washington. The spot was vacated by John McKay, who was first appointed to the spot in October 2001, and is filled in the interim by former Yakima County Prosecutor Jeff Sullivan. White has been out of office since being defeated by Jay Inslee for a third term in 1998, but was courted to run against Maria Cantwell last year, whom he defeated in the 1994 GOP sweep.