I have always found it very odd how local Republicans have never given Chris Gregoire much, if any, respect. On the blogs and elsewhere, Republicans still consider her an accidental governor, an aberration, a byproduct of the corrupt machinations in King County. They do not think she is a formidable candidate. They look at her the same way they looked at Patty Murray; someone outside the “leadership” class. But year after year, she rolled up big victories.
I don’t mean respect in the polite way. Frankly, I don’t care if the GOP plays nice. But to treat her candidacy the way Dino Rossi does, the way the GOP loseratti does, well, I don’t think it’s smart. Rossi is downright dismissive; it proves that he believes his own hype about the 2004 election. He’s surrounded by the elder statesmen of the GOP; guys who worked for Slade Gorton, the BIAW, and an assorted array of since-retired legislators. All of them coo into his ear, saying that the governorship was his all along.
I spent only a few hours on the bus, but I paid attention. Unlike Rossi, Gregoire has never had to deliver for a district; she’s good, but not great, at the retail side of things. But there’s a genuine likability there, a genuine warmth. Her economically disadvantaged upbringing has installed in her a mettle, a sense that you have to be strong inside and out to get things done. Rossi may be the salesman, but Gregoire is the sales manager. Rossi is the sizzle, Gregoire is the steak.
The GOP is going to come after her on state spending, specifically, on the 33% increase. (Read more about that below, in Goldy’s post.) While Rossi makes the intellectual argument, Gregoire will talk about what her budget does:
More kids with health care.
More resources for education for our people.
Protecting our environment.
Governor Gregoire doesn’t invest in these things because of how they pencil out on the page. She invests in these things because that’s the kind of person she is. And I think that’s the person Washington voters will re-elect in November.
What, exactly, about Dino Rossi sizzles? He’s boring. He’s a punk. No resume, no accomplishments, just a greasy little real estate salesman who talks in platitudes and generalities? Why should I vote for him, when I don’t even know what I’m voting for? So far, he has given me no reasons to vote for him. Not a single one.
Damn, Will you are really drinking that cool-aid!
Gregoire has been a great governor. She broke a 10-year logjam on transportation in six weeks. Time and again, she has pulled the Legislature over impasses and gotten things done. Washington has a very dynamic state government now that is beginning to address the challenges of the 21st century while cleaning up the 20th century’s unfinished business. The governor is positioning us for a bright economic future in international trade and export industries. Recognizing that education is the key to Washington’s economic future, she has expanded the state college system by thousands of new places; has funded the voter-passed initiatives for teacher pay and smaller class sizes; and has gotten the ball rolling on updating the state’s antiquated infrastructure. All of this things are vital to our prosperity and wellbeing. The governor deserves a well-earned re-election. It would be a great thing if the people of Washington expressed their appreciation for her hard work on their behalf by re-electing her with a margin over 60%.
these things
@3 Roger Rabbit drinketh Kool-Aid too:
Gregoire has been a great governor. … Time and again, she has pulled the Legislature over impasses and gotten things done. Washington has a very dynamic state government now that is beginning to address the challenges of the 21st century while cleaning up the 20th century’s unfinished business. The governor is positioning us for a bright economic future in international trade and export industries…. The governor deserves a well-earned re-election. It would be a great thing if the people of Washington expressed their appreciation for her hard work on their behalf by re-electing her with a margin over 60%.
OK … sounds like something a Bushy would say of their idol. Or the hype from North Korea for its great leader! Jeez Wabbot, if you need to lather it on, get some soap that does not smell so perfumery.
She broke a 10-year logjam on transportation in six weeks. You mean our transportantion system could be worse? Try selling that idea anywhere in this state.
Recognizing that education is the key to Washington’s economic future, she has expanded the state college system by thousands of new places; has funded the voter-passed initiatives for teacher pay and smaller class sizes; and has gotten the ball rolling on updating the state’s antiquated infrastructure.
I call horseturds on these Adding spaces at colelge system without the LONG TERM funding needed to suport those students is phony baloney. Also, anyone who thinks that UWT or UWB are realm unovesities should write me for a di0ploma I will sell them, at a modest price, from Oxybridge.
@6 “OK … sounds like something a Bushy would say of their idol. Or the hype from North Korea for its great leader! Jeez Wabbot, if you need to lather it on, get some soap that does not smell so perfumery.”
What the fuck were you expecting? A Rossi flack with long pointy ears?
ut to treat her candidacy the way Dino Rossi does, the way the GOP loseratti does, well, I don’t think it’s smart. Rossi is downright dismissive;
Do you even see the laughable hypocrisy of your own words in that statement?
It’s not my responsibility to provide health care for your kids. “If ya can’t feed ’em, don’t breed ’em.”
We already spend plenty of money (too much money in fact) on education. More money will NOT fix the problems.
“Protecting the environment” as in spending $44B on the global warming hoax as the last legislature suggested? No thanks…keep your religion to yourself please.
Nahh!!!!
The good old grumpy but somewhat objective bunny I know.
This reads like the kind of thing a cheap flack would use to support any candydate.
“Reelect Joe Chump, the Greatest Governor We have Got!”
“Until Joe came to office we did not know what a fun thing government could be. He stared down the Oregonians and in the last four years we have not has a single rocket attack on Pasco! He stood up for the rights of salmon to be grilled rather than poached and for all cats to have their fair share. He endorsed the Kita salmon as the state animal replacing the lowly chum.
Chump has kept our taxes 50% below what they might have been1 Despite that, the state has never been more prepared for a hurricane!
What other governor could have kissed so many babies or gotten the Auburn Waterlogged to keep their team playing Baseball in our state?
Chump, the champ amongst governors!”
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@8 deepnds where you spend the money. Underfunding our universities is S-T-U-P-I-D.
BTW 9 refers bacj to the rabbit.
I have never understood this state’s rightwingers’ love of Rossi. There is no there there. He is an empty suit, devoid of any constructive, original, or persuasive ideas. He is simply a mouthpiece for those with more power and money than him. I expect his political obituary will be written in November and we will no longer have to listen to the incessant whining about the lightweight’s loss in 2004.
“On the blogs and elsewhere, Republicans still consider her an accidental governor, an aberration, a byproduct of the corrupt machinations in King County.”
All of that is true.
“They do not think she is a formidable candidate.” NOT true. She is VERY formidable. Be afraid…VERY afraid.
“They look at her the same way they looked at Patty Murray”
Can you say Oink, Oink? As in, bring home the bacon through corrupt earmark pork spending. So, if you count “ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with”, then yes, we look at her the same.
I agree let’s stop providing health care for those kids and get back to aborting them – it appears that’s what the redneck right wing cowards want to see.
By the way – did anyone ever talk about prosecuting the illegal voters found out in the GOP attempt to steal the Governor’s office? The republican judge said they’re all republicans by the way.
On the blogs and elsewhere, Republicans still consider her an accidental governor, an aberration, a byproduct of the corrupt machinations in King County.”
All of that is true.
“They do not think she is a formidable candidate.” NOT true. She is VERY formidable. Be afraid…VERY afraid.
No Jim, the repubs are realist. They know as long as the donks control King County the republicans have to overcome massive voter fraud. Yes over 57% of the voters know the queen is a fraud. The problem is you have to get 57% of the legal votes just to break even with the donks.
By the way – did anyone ever talk about prosecuting the illegal voters found out in the GOP attempt to steal the Governor’s office? The republican judge said they’re all republicans by the way.
04/07/2008 at 6:35 pm
Did that judge ever figure out where those lost ballots came from in the second recount? You know the couple thousand that were found in King county? That is what turned the election.
Reeeeaaallly?
Then why the fuck didn’t the republitards introduce those ‘lost ballots’ as evidence in the trial?
NEXT !!!!!
@8 “It’s not my responsibility to provide health care for your kids. ‘If ya can’t feed ‘em, don’t breed ‘em.'”
Memorable words from a deadbeat who doesn’t even pay his child support, let alone his gambling debts.
Five hundred Big Ones … all I can say is:
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
@8 “We already spend plenty of money (too much money in fact) on education. More money will NOT fix the problems.”
MTR occasionally does make a half-good point. In this case, the half-good point is that whatever money was spent on HIS education was completely wasted.
@9 “This reads like the kind of thing a cheap flack would use to support any candydate.”
What do you take me for, anyway? A high-class flack?
Ah actually Jane the answer is no. The republican judge in the republican county ruling on an election moderated by the republican secretary of state found that the ONLY evidence of ILLEGAL activity was done by your fellow republicans – of course that doesn’t bother you because the rule of law is only important to your ilk when applied to the other side – the GOP thinks it’s above the law – but too bad so sad – you lost. HE HE!
@9 ” … in the last four years we have not has a single rocket attack on Pasco!”
Now why didn’t I think of that? Want to work for me?
@10 How can you re-elect someone who was never elected in the first place? Maybe your 4 college degrees can provide us with an answer to that one. I doubt it, though. You don’t even seem able to pay a small gambling debt.
Five Hundred Big Ones!
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Reeeeaaallly?
Then why the fuck didn’t the republitards introduce those ‘lost ballots’ as evidence in the trial?
NEXT !!!!!
They shouldn’t have been counted in the first place dumbass. What, do you think KC wrote the names down of all the found ballots???? What a retard.
@13 What corrupt earmark pork spending are you talking about? That language evokes memories of a runaway GOP Congress, and nothing else.
@13 Another wingnut blowing brainfarts out of his ass with no fucking idea of what he’s prattling about.
The judge should have at least let some republican counties find ballots… you know just to be fair. I know you donks are retards, especially when counting things, but fair is fair.
@24 As a matter of fact — since you asked — yes, they did.
When Stupid Dog has no facts to work with, he howls at the moon.
That’s the one thing about dogs that I find slightly endearing: They’ve never forgotten their coyote heritage.
Roger describes himself “nearly” perfectly. The first bit of intelectual honesty he has ever posted.
“What, exactly, about Roger Rabbit sizzles? He’s boring. He’s a punk. No resume, no accomplishments, just a greasy little, washed up, paper pushing attorney from DSHS who talks in platitudes and generalities when he’s not forever caught up in his little socialistic alternative universe, completely disconnected from reality, logic and reason.
“The judge should have at least let some republican counties find ballots… you know just to be fair. I know you donks are retards, especially when counting things, but fair is fair.”
The plaintiffs’ suit concerned King County exclusively; they did not mention any of the other 38 counties. (For some reason, they did not wish to discuss, in court and under oath, the performance of counties which have Republicans in charge of counting votes. Go figure.) Therefore, the judge could not discuss most of the state.
Ballots were found all over the state. Yakima County, which had a grand total of 50,000 votes cast in the Governor’s race, found 55 ballots — a very large per-capita find. Better yet, those ballots went disproportionately to Gregoire, in a county where most of the vote went to Rossi!
Judge Bridges did not “find ballots”; he ruled that illegal votes had been cast for Rossi, in precincts where the legitimate voters had heavily favored Gregoire. This flatly contradicted the plaintiffs’ main point, and contributed to their total loss in the suit.
“Did that judge ever figure out where those lost ballots came from in the second recount? You know the couple thousand that were found in King county? That is what turned the election.”
The origin of those ballots was established in hearings before our State Supreme Court. The GOP sued to block counting of those ballots, and citizens had to appear in court to get their legitimate ballots counted. The Supreme Court found that most of the ballots were legitimate, and of good origin, and so allowed counting of them. (This may have been the origin of Rossi’s graceless swipe at them, after he was forced to admit his loss.)
All of this was established, in court, years ago. Do you still believe in the Tooth Fairy?
You’d think the republican judge in the republican county ruling on an election moderated by a republican secretary of state would give every advantage to the republicans and STILL the crying little bitch Rossi got pounded. I still get a smile on my face thinking about that punk’s tears! HE HE!
Agreed Will. Good to see you got in on the bus ride. Of equal importance though is that Rossi and his ability to sell folks the equivalent of underwater farm land, should not be underestimated by the campaign or any of us who may contribute time or money to her campaign. This will not be any easy race. Oh it should be cuz Dino is a corrupt empty suit. But he has proven to be almost the perfect candidate and can never be underestimated as a candidate.
Roger Rabbit says:
@24 As a matter of fact — since you asked — yes, they did.
04/07/2008 at 7:53 pm
Well that must explain why there was 895,660 votes counted, while 899,199 votes were certified by King County. That is difference of over 3,000 votes. Only a donk voting district could fuck up an election this bad. roof roof.
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See post #35. hehehe
@31 “What, exactly, about Roger Rabbit sizzles? He’s boring. He’s a punk. No resume, no accomplishments, just a greasy little, washed up, paper pushing attorney from DSHS who talks in platitudes and generalities … ”
So? What’s wrong with that? Would I be more interesting if I just bent over and let you wingnuts fuck me?
The really nice thing about being a washed up DSHS attorney is they pay me to not come to work anymore.
Click here for photo of rabbit punk. http://knittingincolor.blogspo.....gbunny.jpg
If King county was on the “up and up” then they shouldn’t have been over 3,000 votes off on the votes counted versus votes certified. If the King county vote discrepancy was anything close to proportional to the rest of the state it should have only been off by 80-90 votes max. The fact that they couldn’t even come close after months of trying to reconcile the number is proof enough for me.
RE-Elect Dino Rossi
@39 Sorry, wrong link. Here’s the photo of the rabbit punk. http://www.official-john-nikol.....bitSaw.jpg
@40 This phony argument has been debunked so many times it’s not worth repeating. Not all counted votes are certified because some people aren’t eligible to vote, dumbass!!! Must be a full moon tonight.
Roger Rabbit – your pics always crack me up! :)
Not all counted votes are certified because some people aren’t eligible to vote, dumbass!!! Must be a full moon tonight.
04/07/2008 at 8:59 pm
Yeah, but wouldn’t that be proportional throughout the state????? Oh that’s right I am talking to a dumbass rabbit.
Hey we all know that there are a lot of inelleigble voters in King county… but 400 times as many????? Well you did steal the election. roof roof.
Dino Rossi does not believe in the rule of law. He does not believe in the Rules of Evidence, nor in an independent judiciary. He lost in court in his hand-picked county, then derisively dismissed our state’s Supreme Court, which is far more conservative now than in past years. That somehow qualifies him to be governor? We do not need a half-wit who believes that arguments pulled out of his greased asshole constitute facts to be our state’s chief executive. He is a sore loser whose followers refuse to consult reality. Chris Gregoire is smarter, more accomplished, abler, and more in tune with the voters of this liberal state. So, what is it about Dino that gives you rightwinged boys hard-ons about him?
@35 Nice try, dog. Unfortunately for you, the official (i.e., certified) numbers are public information and HERE FOR YOUR EDIFICATION ARE THE CERTIFIED RESULTS:
2004 Governor’s Race, King County Certified Totals
Gregoire – 506,154
Rossi – 351,306
Bennett – 18,952
Write-In – 1,363
Undervotes – 21,297
Overvotes – 87
Total Ballots Cast – 899,199
Sources:
1) Washington Secretary of State Official Web Site: http://vote.wa.gov/Elections/R.....641023cc0f
2) King County Elections Official Web Site: http://www.metrokc.gov/electio.....sults2.htm
Now, Stupid Dog, whip out your handy-dandy calculator to see if 509,194 + 351,306 + 18,952 + 1,363 + 21,297 + 87 adds up to 899,199 and report back to us with your results — then go hump your fire hydrant again.
Sheesh.
@35 (continued) What hat did you pull your 895,660 figure out of? This one? http://www.fotosearch.com/bigc.....p65527.jpg
(BTW how do you like that nice portrait of my cousin Herb?)
The wingfucks’ behavior in this discussion, and the behavior of the state party apparatchiks in generall since their loss both at the polls and in the court of their own choosing, makes one think of the classic Western movie scene where some sleazebag gambler gets caught dealing from the bottom of the deck, then flips the table over, throws his drink in someone’s face, and starts a bar fight to cover his humiliation.
@3 How could you think Gregoire has done such a marvelous
job after all the rotten things you have said about our
patriotic leader George Bush. Apparently things aren’t so bad after all? ROSSI will be our next governor.
will you should of stayed on the bus
The number of votes added to King County’s total ballots cast between the initial machine count and hand recount was 961, or about 1/10th of 1%.
Individual gains between the initial machine count and hand recount were:
Gregoire: 951
Rossi: 527
Bennett: 46
Write-In: 123
Total: 1,647
Anyone who thinks this isn’t a product of normal error from using optical scanning machines with human operators either knows nothing about election administration, has his head up his ass, or both.
Art @ 48
Naturally, of course, no Rossi supporter would actually either throw or take a punch. Rather, he’d be making sure his cowardly ass got out the swinging doors before his hair might get mussed up. A ‘do like that don’t come cheap, you know.
How many acorn asswipes went to jail in this state who admitted they produced ballots for democrats? NINE (9)
There has not been a democrat who really won an election in this state for probably the last four elections. At some
point there will be an END to the bullshit…
Now if you look at just the 857,500 votes counted for either Gregoire or Rossi (final certified count), Gregoire got 59.03% and Rossi got 40.97%.
Now if you look at the 1,478 votes added to Gregoire’s and Rossi’s total by the recounts, Gregoire got 64.34% of these votes and Rossi got 35.66% of them.
That’s hardly compelling evidence of a ballot box stuffing conspiracy.
How many of the right wing turds on this thread will be anywhere NEAR HA on the night that real estate broker – er make that agent Rossi gets pounded in the next election?
NONE!
And by the way – there’s 1000% more evidence that the AWOL coke-snorting, drunk driving coward GW Bush stole the 2000 election than there is that Chris stole the Governor’s election. Doesn’t matter – they each hold office and nothing can be done now.
We can re-defeat both Bush and Rossi in November and we will and the right wingers will run like the cum-drunk whores they really are.
BTW, the minor difference in percentages in #54 is easily explained by the fact Republicans challenged more ballots than Democrats did.
53
Don,t hold your breath, with vote by mail in KC who knows how many dead donks are voting now. We just need to keep fighting.
@44 No numbers here, just a lot of baying at the moon.
@35 (continued) What hat did you pull your 895,660 figure out of?
The Seattle times reported this back in December 2004. And this is a liberal rag.
Mark @ 53: “There has not been a democrat who really won an election in this state for probably the last four elections.”
If you honestly believe that statement, then I feel sorry for you. This state is a Democratic state, not because Democrats steal elections, but because there are a helluva lot more Democrats in this state than Republicans. Washington is a liberal state. If you can’t accept that reality, then you need to move to Idaho, which I will grant you is a conservative state. Your quote above, however, indicates a seriously delusional person. Do your parents know where you are and what you are doing tonight? Hell, even they probably hope you just disappear.
@48 And then gets his ass shot off — as Paul Harvey would say, that’s “the rest of the story.”
@49 “How could you think Gregoire has done such a marvelous
job after all the rotten things you have said about our
patriotic leader George Bush.”
It’s easy. I sit on a stool in front of my computer keyboard and push keys.
I have no doubt George W. Bush thinks he’s patriotic. So do his followers. So did Hitler. So did his followers.
@50 You should’ve laid down in front of the bus and not told the driver you were there.*
* Just kidding! Wingnut humor ala Ann Coulter.
@53 “How many acorn asswipes went to jail in this state who admitted they produced ballots for democrats? NINE (9)”
And every one of them belongs there, along with every other lying employee who ever cheated his employer.
@53 (continued) Doesn’t it make you feel warm all over knowing those lying, cheating street people ACORN hired to gather voter registrations are just as entitled to vote as you are, and their vote counts just as much as yours does? Now you know how we educated liberals feel about you wingnut hayseeds.
@57 “We just need to keep fighting”
Oh yes, please pour another $2 million of your contributors’ money down the nearest toilet!
@59 Would you be so kind as to grace us with a link to said article?
Dog @ 59
The Seattle Times is not a liberal paper. It is a rightwing rag, that endorsed Bush at least once if not twice. The paper’s politics are embarrassing for a progressive city like Seattle.
Now if you look at the 1,478 votes added to Gregoire’s and Rossi’s total by the recounts, Gregoire got 64.34% of these votes and Rossi got 35.66% of them.
If there were 1,478 votes added in KC than the rest of the counties should have added an additional 2,800 votes to their final total…. why didn’t his happen???? Why was the count so much more accurate in the other 37 counties???
PS – I know why. hehehe
Democrats cheat.
Meanwhile, while our idiot trolls wonder why people don’t vote for their candidates, Republicans continue their crusade to make drug companies who lie about what’s in their products immune from being sued by families of the people they killed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04.....ref=slogin
There is no there there. He is an empty suit, devoid of any constructive, original, or persuasive ideas.
The basic mental pathology of the wingnut is projection. All their self-loathing they project on their target du jour – gays, women, liberals, muslims.
Anything kind of thing that relieves the mental burden of this incredible self-loathing they project onto empty suits like Rossi and Reichert.
Sound familiar? Yep, they did this with the chimpmeister back in 2000 and 2004.
I’m a PATRIOT ‘cuzzza rah rah rah! Where’s my head?
“Any kind of thing” – excuse me.
Polls aside, Gregoire will win re-election due to the massive democratic turnout in November. Heck, Sen. Dorf “Airbus” McCain cannot even come up with the scratch to lease a decent plane. Do you think Dino the political dinosaur is going to be able to raise even half the cash Gregoire will?
Money talks, bullshit walks.
@70 Because it did happen, jackass.
Votes for Gregoire, Rossi, and Bennett added to statewide total during recounts: 4,145
Less King County, i.e., votes added in 38 other counties: 4,145 – 1,478 = 2,667
And that doesn’t count the additional undervotes, overvotes, and write-ins which would bring the total well above your arbitrary figure of 2,800.
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/ele....._race.aspx
Next time, do some research before barking at the moon, lest you make a public fool of yourself — as you did this time.
Speaking of cheaters – and liars – and batshit crazy cunts – Washington is a little better off today because another right wing asswipe went to Hell! YEAH!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....it08m.html
Rossi has been running for months, and has “kicked off” his campaign 2 or 3 times already. Gregoire began her campaign a couple of days ago.
Surevyusa:
As she begins to actually campaign and makes her case, and people begin to think about her record in office, I expect that to change to her advantage. Rossi has worked awfuly thus far to hard to still trail by a point. And Gregoire has a lot more left to spend than Rossi does.
Note for busdrivermike: per this morning’s P-I, Gregoire has raised a total of $4.5 million thus far, and Rossi has raised $3.5 million. But I am pretty sure that to date he has spent a lot more of his than she has of hers.
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The problem is you have to get 57% of the legal votes just to break even with the donks.
Good luck with that.
Let’s hope that Rossi makes this easy. All he has to do is run on the “We was robbed” platform and Chris wins by 20 points. PLEASE keep this crazy shit up assholes. Please keep trying to sell the myth that Rossi won. If that’s the best you have – you’ll find out what utter defeat tastes like – AGAIN!
DaddyLove, CG has spent much more of hers in terms of actual dollars and percentage than DR. Her burn rate is Clintonian. The new reports out this week will show them within 250K of each other in cash on hand, according to other blogs. The tour will be expensive.
@55 Redefeat Bush? Hate to break it to you but Bush
is not running again.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....re08m.html
For those who claim that Rossi’s fund raising total is close to CG – sorry but nearly a million dollars behind is NOT close – and that’s not taking into account she couldn’t raise money during the Legislative session.
Again – facts kill republicans – they’re like holy water to a vampire.
Mark actually Bush is running again – he just changed his name to John McCain.
The R’s in this state love Rossi because he is the first viable candidate they have fielded for governor in ages. He wasn’t nearly the wingnut Craswell was, and he wasn’t (until he lost) visibly angry.
I’m not saying there is much there. I’m just saying Rossi was a big step forward for the R’s.
Rossi will lose again. But in 4 years, Rob McKenna will be a very, very strong candidate. And the reason we have McKenna is that Deborah Senn was just party smart to win the nomination from the D’s, and plenty irritating enough to shove a lot of mainstream D’s (such as myself) into voting for McKenna.
And with Sims going down the drain on transit issues, the D’s better come up with a decent candidate, or McKenna will be governor.
@77 Oh, I don’t feel that way about her — she helped elect a lot of Democrats. Not intentionally, but it worked out that way.
@85 Rossi isn’t the moderate he pretends to be, and McKenna isn’t the fabulous attorney general Gregoire was (but then, she’s a hard act to follow), and McKenna will be hurt by the bad reputation and incompetence of his party, but he might have a chance if the Democrats don’t have a strong candidate to oppose him. But why should we think Gregoire will quit after two terms? With both Senate seats occupied by strong Democratic women for the foreseeable future, there’s no other office for her to run for. The only logical move for her is to a Democratic president’s cabinet.
@87
McKenna and Reed are about the only Republicans I can think of who would be strong candidates for Governor.
For the Dem bench Pierce County Exec John Ladenburg is an obvious possibility as is Rep. Inslee. Other possiblities would be Reps. Larsen or Smith or State Sen. Murray.
I could also see Sims running in 4 years if his reputation improves enough.
I doubt Gregoire will run for a third term unless she is wildly popular in 4 years. With the exception of Gov. Evans the tradition has been to only serve two terms.