The polls have closed and it wasn’t even close, with Sen. Ken Jacobsen capturing a commanding 40% of the vote in a five-way race to determine the incumbent, Seattle state senator most deserving of a serious challenge in 2010. And once again an anti-incumbency sentiment appeared to guide the results.
| Votes | Pct. | Years | |
| Ken Jacobsen | 78 | 40% | 26 |
| Jeanne Kohl-Welles | 51 | 26% | 17 |
| Adam Kline | 38 | 19% | 12 |
| Joe McDermott | 18 | 9% | 8 |
| Ed Murray | 11 | 6% | 14 |
The table above shows total years of service in Olympia, both House and Senate. And once again the top vote getters are those who have served the longest.
How the sentiment of HA’s rather insular audience translates into broader public opinion, I’m not sure, but I think it’s safe to speculate that it does show a growing frustration with the performance of the Seattle delegation as a whole.
That said, good luck challenging Sen. Jacobsen, who despite his reputation for being a little out there is perhaps the king of Seattle retail politics, with an unsurpassed lifetime D/Y ratio (Doorbells rung to Years of service).
Coming up, the final House runoff between Sharon Tomiko Santos, Mary Lou Dickerson and Phyllis Gutierrez Kenney.
An alternative and probably easier solution is to just mount a campaign against Jacobsen, make sure it has respectable financial/political backing and then hope that the threat and work of a competitive race is enough to drive the old coot into retirement. Our guy or gal might not win the ensuing primary, but getting rid of Jacobsen is a higher priority than getting a legitimate progressive into the seat IMO.
It’s a moot point as you don’t have anyone to challenge him.
Any civic minded up-and-comers in Greenwood or Laurelhurst?
Step one. Find cool, civic minded progressive.
Step two. Find them a slot somewhere, school board, neighborhood council, library board. Where ever they’d be a good fit.
Step three. Trick them into running for the spot.
Of course, there is the lowest-cost (electorally, not necessarily in public funds), bloodless option — find out what your least-favorite elected official really likes, and get them appointed to some high-paying city, county, regional, or state job administering a program overseeing said activity. Alas, for the 40% against Jacobsen, I’m unaware of any boards overseeing dogs in bars — the state Liquor Control Board (a favorite pasture ground) is probably the closest thing.
3 Considering their recent track record, I’d say having served on Seattle’s school board would so severely taint anyone’s credentials that they couldn’t get anyone’s vote.
The People’s Socialist Republic of Seattle is always the last to figure things out.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thank God there are a few adults between the Leftist Pinhead Klowns aka Goldy’s Northwest Division of Lunatic Moonbats and our pocketbook!!
Ummmmmmmmm, focus you KLOWNS!
From today’s Seattle Times.
State’s tax collections seen falling an additional $482M
The state’s lead forecaster projects tax collections will drop an additional $482 million between now and 2011, continuing a long string of bad news for the state budget.
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
State’s jobless benefits rise with ’08 wage gains
Total personal income in state falls 0.4% in 1Q
Uff da. I didn’t even vote and my State Senator still picks up the golden raspberry.
Mr. Clinical-
yes, the Bush economy left us with the great recession that we are slowly recovering from, and the fact we have leveled out for now is based on Democratic policies. So, we will come out if it, no thanks to the friggin’ idiot trolls in Congress and elsewhere, like on this list. If we listened to you we would go off the cliff into the deep abyss.
But on this post- its especially unfair to Kohl Welles. Ask anyone in Olympia and you find that her committee is where all the hard work was done. She fought for retro reform, to mitigate UI hurts, and a great homeowner bill of rights. She passed them through the Senate after leaving her committee, and pushed to get them passed into law. AND, she passed the only pro worker bill of the session, positive changes to consumer protection, and payday lending among other issues. She also worked on felon voting restoration, and DP. These are the progressive bills signed into law. So every progressive bill that did pass had her stamp on it. And Adam Kline was right there with her, and helped pass several of these measures.
To do this right, you need to give a pro and con record to voters. I think our voters failed in their homework on this one. And so did your poll.
@5
You’ve got a point there.
Yay!! He won!!!!!
Woof! Woof!
Here is today’s evaluation of King Karl Marx Obama–
Saturday, June 20, 2009
This is the poll that Leftist Pinheaded KLOWN Kommodore & Kountry Klubber steve loves to quote. Hey Steve, where are you buddy?????
I live in the 46th District, I’ll challenge him, and bury him with his pets.
Write me in, thanks, and I’ll not make legislation allowing pets and people to be boxed up forever as my claim to legislative fame.
WTF was that.
No, no, we will vote for our State Senator!
He lets us ride in those empty wagons that rattle the loudest.
Woof ! Woof!
Hey where’s my beer?
Oh no!! Obama’s approval in the Rasmussen daily wingnut poll is down to 54%!! OMG!! It’s one point lower than it was back on March 20th!!
Good grief, Mr. Klynical, get a fucking life.
Hey, Marvin, your friend Mark called gays “homos and degenerates” over on the other thread. You’d better get your sorry ass on over there and do a cut & paste number on him.
Obama now -2 on the Strong Approval vs. Strong Disapproval.
NO LEADERSHIP SKILLS ON IRAN…or anything else for that matter.