Democrat Darcy Burner will report campaign contributions of $199,768 for the second quarter of 2007 — more than any challenger in any congressional district over the same three month period in the history of Washington state. Burner’s fundraising efforts now put her nine months ahead of her impressive 2006 pace, in which she raised nearly $3.1 million.
With $185,000 cash on hand, a 16,000-strong contributor list, the unwavering support of the local netroots, and a top-notch campaign team forming around her, I can’t imagine why another Democrat would attempt to challenge her for the opportunity to face-off against Sheriff Reichert. (But then, I’m not sure why any sane person would put themselves through the rigors of a race like this.)
When final numbers are reported on the 15th, I’m guessing we’ll find Burner ahead of Reichert in cash-on-hand, and in the top tier of challengers nationally.
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HERE COME THE WINGNUTS WITH THEIR FEAR AND LOATHING.
We can’t have any idea whatsoever about the fundraising prowess of other Democrats who might want to run in the 8th until they file as candidates. Which they’d better do pretty soon if they have even a remote prayer of a chance to do well in the primary. It’s only a little bit over 13 months until the Democratic voters on the Eastside choose their candidate.
Tempus fugit, guys, so stop the whispering campaigns and start actual campaigns if you’re going to do so.
This exchange between me and Proud Leftist is so good, I am going to post it in every thread on HA from now on. It destroys the Publicans’ stupid talking points – period.
“I’m working really hard to understand how President Bill Clinton’s actions act as justifcation for the righties. Read this fuckwads.
If your lame ass argument is that Bill Clinton was a bad President – which is what you say – and if your argument now is that the AWOL coward GW Bush is in someway comparable to Bill Clinton, what you are actually saying is that GW Bush is NO BETTER THAN CLINTON.
Does it hurt to be that stupid? I really want to know.
proud leftist says:
RES @ 18
You’ve hit it on the nose. The rightwing fringefucks consider Clinton to be the personification of evil–indeed, he is the devil incarnate in their twisted little minds. Nonetheless, their justification for all of the Bushites’ sins is, always, “well, Clinton did it, too.” Methinks they never studied logic.”
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6308408
Bush justice is a national disgrace
This is from the Denver Post
“As a longtime attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, I can honestly say that I have never been as ashamed of the department and government that I serve as I am at this time.”
Will all that money pay for someone to tell her the Iraq war can’t be won by the US?
You impress way too easily, Goldy. My 2006 fundraising efforts could more charitably be said to be nonexistent. But thanks anyway.
Now Burner’s, on the other hand . . .
Three men in jail over bomb at church
By MARTHA DELLER
Star-Telegram staff writer
Three Burleson men who belong to a “radical Christian activist group” were in the Johnson County Jail on Friday night after a church deacon caught two of them attempting to ignite an explosive device on Independence Day at a church under construction in north Burleson, authorities said Friday.
http://www.star-telegram.com/n.....61625.html
When is someone going to pull the girl aside for a little heart to heart? She is abysmally unqualified. Probably not qualified to be on the Redmond City Council either, but she should give that a run first before she thinks about the US Congress.
Killin me @7
Yeah, yeah… I’m a crappy proofreader. So what else is new?
Omigod, Mark actually got something right (if only by mistake). He is absolutely correct that Darcy Burner is not qualified to be on the Redmond City Council.
Because she doesn’t live in Redmond.
Otherwise, Mark, take you inane blathering over to (u)SP or whatever other masturbatory wingnut sites you ordinarily infest.
#9, Mark. One of Darcy’s turds is smarter than Reichert. That still isn’t saying much…..
As far as qualified, how qualified was George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln? Thomas Jefferson?
All you have to do is know right from wrong, and not sell your soul to corporate america…..
By the way, is Bush qualified? What was his qualifications? Total failure at every business venture he tried? Had to have his daddy’s friends bail him out over and over, and used his daddy’s good name to buy the Rangers. Looks pretty thin to me…
Burner:
What happens if the silver haired congressman decides NOT to run and some attractive, MONIED Publican decides to buy himself a seat in Congress???
With folks spending 50 miilion for a trip to the space shuttle, why not buy a congrssional seat instead? Maybe Melinda Gates would like one for her anniversary? Or howsa about Steve Balmer buys one for his Mistress?
Actually the charge that Darcy lacks credentials is rather true … of course being Sharif of the Harim of Bellevue is not exactly great training either. Has anyone looked at the qualifications of other initial candidates?
Sunny Jim … psychiatrist to the liberals of Seattle?
Steve Larsen … fussball player?
GW Bush … playboy and failed oilman
Just a reminder for you moonbats, especially RES and PL…
Bill Clinton was impeached and disbarred because he lied to a grand jury in a failed attempt to conceal a pattern of predatory behavior in connection with an assault case that he settled for $800k.
Can you imagine being too fucking dishonest to be a lawyer? How low can you go?
Did Burner get an endorsement from her homeowner’s association where she picked up the razor sharp political instincts that she wields so deftly today?
Does anyone have any updates on the intentions of Chris Hurst in the 8th?
@12 Facts Support My Positions says:
Do not DIsS my gran gran!
As far as qualified, how qualified
waswere George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln? Thomas Jefferson?By the way, is Bush qualified? What
waswere his qualifications?I thought I was typo challenged.
It is hard to imagine anyone less qualified to be prexy than GB II.
As for your other examples:
Washington …surveyor, military service on French Indian war, led and won the rev. war.
Lincoln …. you got me there, proves good things can come in plain bags.
Jefferson … are you serious? Gran Gran wrote the Declaration of Independence and a lot of the seminal ideas for the US came from Jefferson’s writings from Virginia. Other than that:
# Vice President For: John Adams (1797-1801)
# Secretary of State (George Washington, 1790-1793)
# Governor of a State: VA (1779-1781)
# Colonial Government: House of Burgesses (1769-1774), Continental Congress (1783-1784)
# Minister to France; negotiated loans the enabled the rebellion.
# Virginia Continental Congress;
# Virginia House of Delegates
# inventor of the desk chair
# architect
How soon they forget.
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My apologies Mr. Jefferson. If I wasn’t spending so much of my time trying to keep the Republicons from destroying my country, and start WWIII I would brush up a little on my history…
Just think if Washington and Jefferson were in charge today how long it would take before Cheney, and Bush were prosecuted.
Jefferson didn’t write the constitution to have the likes of Bush, and Cheney urinate on it on a daily basis.
SeattleJew apparently doesn’t like Jim McDermott. He certainly doesn’t know much about Jim’s career prior to his service in the US Congress.
From McDermott’s campaign website:
McDermott’s work as a psychiatrist was largely during his Navy assignment, treating PTSD in Long Beach CA, and his Foreign Service/AID work in Africa. As best I can tell, he has never been a civilian psychiatrist in Seattle.
He had a decade and a half as an elected official — State House, State Senate, losing campaign for governor — prior to his initial election to Congress in 1988.
That Jim McDermott did have a political career prior to going to Congress says exactly nothing about Darcy Burner (or Dave Reichert, for that matter). Members of Congress get elected with less experience than Burner, with more experience than McDermott, and everywhere in between. It’s not the resume, it’s the viewpoint and character and intellect (and fundraising ability).
PS. Who the hell is Steve Larsen?
Postman is reporting today that Riechart has raised $245,000 this past quarter…..
A tad bit more than your good ol’ gal darcy.
21 – MUST BE THE HAIR AND THE BICEPS, THAT’S THE ATTRACTION ALONG WITH DOING WHATEVER HE’S TOLD BY THOSE WHO HAVE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR HIM.
@21 How lame is it that an incumbent has to scramble to raise funds ahead of a challenger? And in particular, how lame is it when the challenger has more individual donors, representing votes, that the corporatist shill incumbent?
@20
Thom Jefferson
Sorry, I DO have trouble keeing track of minor, unsuccessful politicians. But, since you mention it, Mr McD’s experience and lack fo success in Congress may make a great arguement for Ms. Burner …. no experience more high than an on shore Navy shrink! BTW when was he in Long Beach? I know a couple of other Docs who were stationed there in the 70s. That place made MASH look serious. I wonder if he was the one responsible for the traditions of sending corpsmen out to pick up cig butts?
Not to make fun, but one would think that a supernnuated dinosaur like Sunny Jim would get the message and rtire to the farm. As a resident of Jimmy’s District I do wish Darcy was running here!
oops must have menat N in Seattle.
Same message as Mr. Jefferson, though. McDermott has not seemed to get mcuh experience even in office. He holds no importnat Ctee jobs and ranking services put him pretty low.
Living at Capital Hill and working at the UW, it is distressing to know that the ex doc THINKS he knows something about healthcare.
.14 You have to admire just exactly how completely stupid the right is. You point out their mistakes and then point back to them as if to make sure everyone sees how stupid they are.
Congrats idiot. Please keep proving my point for me. I love it. Thanks.
Bzzt! Wrong answers!
“Bill Clinton was impeached and disbarred because he lied to a grand jury in a failed attempt to conceal a pattern of predatory behavior in connection with an assault case that he settled for $800k.”
He was impeached AND ACQUITTED. Therefore, the charges against him were NOT TRUE. (At least, that’s how the Republican-controlled Senate so decided.) And, if you have evidence for his having committed “predatory behavior” or “assault”, then Paula Jones will be very mad at you for with-holding it from the court. Her failure to produce such evidence caused her case to collapse completely, thrown out of court as the frivolous waste of time and money that it was.
“Can you imagine being too fucking dishonest to be a lawyer? How low can you go?”
Lying to a criminal investigation, thus preventing us from punishing the criminals who harmed our national security. If you think such felonies deserve jail time, you’re not a good Republican.
Thanks for playing, Mark. Better luck next time. You are the winggiest nut, good-bye.
RES@4 I GUESS IT IS BETTER TO BE AWOL THAN NOT SERVE AT ALL LIKE YOUR COWARD CLINTON.AND GET A NEW TALKINK POINT ASSHOLE
PADDY MAC TAKE A HIT ON YOUR BONG.DIPSHIT
HEY PADDY MAC HOW MUCH DID BILL SETTLE WITH PAULA.OH YOU DONT REMEMBER.PROBLEY STONED.HEY DOES JENNIFER FLOWERS,MONICA LEWINSKY,DOLLY KYLE BROWNING.KATHLEEN WILLEY,AND JUANITA BRODERICK,RING A BELL YOU IDOT.
HEY IF FATASS SET A RECORD GUESS THAT MEANS THAT GOOD OLD DAVE BEAT HEAR RECORD GEE SHE DID NOT HOLD THAT RECORD TO LONG.LOOK THE WORD LOSER UP AND YOU WILL FIND A PICTURE OF DARCY.
Yo @31,
Learn to read. Darcy’s 2Q numbers were a record for “challengers.” Incumbents always raise gobs of money. Which makes the fact that Darcy is leading Reichert in cash on hand all the more embarrassing for the Sheriff.
SeattleJew, you really ought to do a bit of research before you post comments. It really helps to keep you from looking like quite so much of a fool.
“no importnat Ctee jobs“?
You don’t think being the #4 Democrat on Ways and Means (the most powerful committee in the House) is “importnat”? You don’t think chairing one of the committee’s six subcommittees (Income Security and Family Support) is “importnat”? High-ranking members of W&M, such as Jim McDermott, usually don’t have other committee assignments.
In disparaging Jim’s experience in comment #24, you skip right from his time as a Navy psychiatrist (he was in Long Beach 1968-1970, BTW) to Congress. That’s just a few comments after I specifically mentioned his decade and a half in the Washington State Legislature and his two years with the Foreigh Service in Africa. But, of course, that doesn’t fit the preconceptions underlying your dislike of McDermott, so you find it easy to dismiss a significant portion of the man’s career history.
Lincoln served in the State Legislature for 7 years before running for Congress. Jefferson didn’t write the constitution and wasn’t even in the country during the convention. The dems don’t like to have candidates opposing each other in the primaries.
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Of curse TJ did not write the constitution, though he contributed a lot though his correspondence with Madison, E.G. the bill of Rights.
33. N in Seattle
Your argument is that election ot a safe seat is a kind of coronation. I think a pol should work for his job.
The man has a lot of seniority but he ranks aomething like 115th in the Congress. (see links on my blog).
I do not downplay his experience as a state legislator … I have no idea, my only point was that such credentials are sometimes difficult to evaluate. Some groupies hang around politics for a long time and get not much done. What did he get done?
Most important to me though, is that JM is no at all visible on issues, other than the war, that are very important to this District. His endorsing VEEP IMPEACHMENT is fine by me, but I would feel better if I believed Jim was affecting more substantive issues.
So if you want me to be impressed tell me about Sunny Jim’s leadership on issues that affect us.
Fianlly, our demographics in Seattle are changin. Sunny Jim could easily face a Jim Webb Publican and be in big trouble.