I’ll be riding the Gregoire campaign bus tomorrow, reporting from stops along the way (wifi willing).
The first event starts at 10:15 AM in Auburn with another later in Tacoma. The bus then continues to Vancouver (without me, though.)
Later that evening I’ll be at Peter Goldmark’s campaign kick-off at the Olympic Sculpture Park. He’s running for commissioner of public lands. Special guest is Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer.
If Rossi comes up Goldy be sure to ask if he’s a real estate broker or agent. Let’s give him a chance to lie about his resume again.
How many chances do we have to give Rossi to come clean about his licensing status?
Hey, I was just reading the comments under Postman’s column about Goldy vs. Goliath (i.e., BIAW). One of our wingnut friends calling himself “The Truth” (anytime a winger flings around the word “truth” — watch out!!) posted the following:
“We do know Goldstein is given to fits of uncontrolled rage, such as the time he faxed a letter off to the legislative ethic board claiming that Luke Esser copulates with pigs (though Goldstein used the vernacular F word in his version).”
Nooooo! Goldy, you didn’t!!! Rrrrreaaaaalllllyyyyyy!!!! Looks like the rumors that LEB died laughing may be true.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....dig06.html
What would Clinton do???? Oh that’s right, kill the children. roof roof.
Dog @ 4
My dog likes to beg, eat cat shit, and hump strangers’ legs. Most dogs like such activities. Did such activities lead you to Republicanism?
@5 I have no idea, but I’m pretty sure Republicanism led dog@4 into his life of voting crime.
Yay, Tacoma and Peter Goldmark!
I’m already signed up to work on the Goldmark Campaign.
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Peter Goldmark is a great candidate for State Lands Commissioner. He represents the type of Democrat that is making the Mountain West starting to turn blue–concern for the environment because we’re sick and tired of losing what we live here for, independent thinking rather than corporate bending over, and, naturally, he’s just smarter than the other side. Oh yeah, and he’s from the largest county in the state–Okanogan (sp?).
Congrads on the gig Will!
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Some of my people are up in Okanogan County. It’s a great place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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You can find old hippies there. You’ve got remarkable rivers and mountains, and places where you can be all by yourself. Plus, having spent too many years growing up in the most conservative county in the state–Chelan (where Dino Rossi randomly chose to challenge the election results in 2004), Okanogan doesn’t look like that bad a place to live.
What has Goldmark got over Sutherland other than a D after his name? I have not heard any criticism of Sutherland and to my view the DNR is about as green as an agency can be. So what do you lefties have against him?
proud leftist
There are plenty of old hippies roaming around Chelan County. Are you realy so full of yourself that you would choose between these 2 counties based on Chelan’s majority politics?
12, 14 Somehow, somewhere along the way, a lot of those old hippies turned into shotgun-toting redneck fascists.
Well, I do know Okanogan County is home to a tiny but dangerous religious cult.
http://www.rickross.com/refere.....stic2.html
http://www.rickross.com/groups/newgnostic.html
There are 3 things everyone should know about Okanogan County and all the other underpopulated eastern Washington counties:
1) The folks who live there want to be left alone and be able to do as they please.
2) They would not be able to access their property without the road subsidies provided by King County gas tax payers.
3) All of eastern Washington, and Okanogan County is no exception, is a gigantic garbage dump. Nobody pays for garbage pickup there. They simply toss their refuse onto the ground. When traveling through Okanogan County or any other eastern Washington rural county, the first thing you notice besides the stunning alpine vistas is the 75-year-old accumulation of junk vehicles, rusting equipment, and trash littering virtually every farm, ranch, and homestead. Those conservative “property rights” types over there live like pigs.
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Lalalala… Ignoring you…
@13 Which makes more sense, electing a State Lands Commissioner who’s an eastern Washington rancher with a science degree, or a Tacoma mayor with a history degree who owned a tent and awning company?
It seems to me Goldmark’s training, experience, and knowledge is more relevant to the job than Sutherland’s.
What’s better for our state lands and citizens, giving the job to a career politician as a stepping stone to higher office, or to a scientist who brings environmental awareness and fresh ideas to the office?
Michael @ outer space, Roger @ 19
If the agency is not AFU, keep the incumbent. Goldmark has a science degree, so what. The job description does not include using a microscope or lighting a bunsen burner. I’ve known plenty of scientists who can’t manage a fire drill; Goldmark’s degree and background don’t stack up well against a successful incumbent.
All I’m asking is: what’s the beef with Sutherland, other than party affiliation?
Zip how about you return the favor – instead of attacking the Dems for supporting their party candidate – why not tell us what the republican has done, why anyone should vote for him and what his qualifications are – or are you a Karl Rove republican who doesn’t actually know a fucking thing about your own candidate but hope to piss all over the opponent in order to win?
And by the way if Goldmark didn’t have a science degree the righties would be saying shit like – “The Dem doesn’t even have a science degree.”
Hey, check my math here. If there are a million Iraqi widows, aren’t there then a million dead Iraqi men?
http://www.news.com.au/heralds.....50,00.html
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Hahahaha Ah not this crap again. hehehehe
No no no. Liberal math dictates that you need to count everyone that knows a widow. For example each widow probably knows 15-20 people so there is 16-21 million killed. Of course this is almost as many people that live in Iraq, but who cares… it’s liberal math. hehehehehe
24 JBD
So in other words, you have no answer. Clearly JBD thinks that no one has been killed in Iraq at all. Ever.
Let’s see, the Associated Press reports a million Iraqi widows. A dog disputes this. Who to believe, who to believe?
Why the Bush Economic Boom is such a bust.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....95278.html
Anyone read in the NYT the response from Target to a blogger who wrote them?
“Unfortunately we are unable to respond to your inquiry because Target does not participate with nontraditional media outlets,” a public relations person wrote to ShapingYouth.
“This practice,” the public relations person added, “is in place to allow us to focus on publications that reach our core guest,” as Target refers to its shoppers.”
Ouch!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01.....arget.html
From Zip – crickets – typical.
I should have said from Zip we get Zip!
zip @ 13, 20:
Sutherland is a partisan Republican hack who is ignoring his own department’s staff recommendations and pushing for Glacier Northwest’s massive gravel mine project in a designated marine reserve on Maury Island (part of Vashon).
This project would involve excavating 10 percent of the island’s area away, two football-field-sized barges a day — for FORTY YEARS!
What does anybody think the spillage from such an operation would be? Even Glacier agrees that there would be “some.” Say goodbye to the eelgrass, the chinook that feed off of it, and the orca that feed on the chiook.
Say goodbye to the drinking water for thousands of residents, because this gravel operation is dangerously close to a sole-source aquifer. Moreover, the mine would disturb toxic-laden soil, full of arsenic and cadmium, that the now thankfully gone Asarco smelter, aided and abetted by Republicans, helped dump on the entire area.
Kiss the Governor’s Puget Sound Partnership, laboriously worked out with bipartisan participation, goodbye.
Glacier has gravel all over WA and BC, but they want this spot because it’s easier for them. They are the worst land rapers in this state, and Sutherland is their buddy.
He is an environmental criminal and it’s everybody’s business to turn him out of office. Forget about right-wing land-raping trash like zip and cmiklich and MTR. Their votes are counted, and there are more of us — but we have to turn out!
I’ll be at Goldmark’s kickoff with my checkbook — and I hope you will too.