Rob McKenna
1125 Washington Street SE
PO Box 40100
Olympia, WA 98504-0100
Dear Rob,
You must be as excited as I am with Newt Gingrich’s conference call today.
Newt Gingrich told supporters on a conference call “we are leaning toward a yes” on a presidential run, CNN has learned.
[…]Also interesting: Gingrich expects former Sen. Zell Miller (D-GA) to be a co-chair “once we put the campaign together.”
Brilliant…adding Zell Miller to the campaign is just the ticket to refocus the press on something besides Newt’s messy marriages and adultery in the service of his country. It’ll inject some crazy-ass excitement into Newt’s campaign.
Gingrich’s bold bipartisan move is a helpful precedence for your forthcoming gubernatorial campaign. You, too, can rise above partisanship while injecting some crazy-ass excitement into your own campaign.
May I suggest making Lou Guzzo your campaign chair?
Lou did it for Dixy Lee Ray; he can do it for you. He has lots of really good ideas.
Lou will know how to keep people from thinking too much about your anti-labor agenda and your lawsuit to strip affordable health insurance from millions.
And it’ll be just plain fun…so think about it.
Yours verily,
Darryl
Horsesass.org
The problem is, in comparison with Newt, Palin, O’Donnell, etc., McKenna comes across as (comparitively) reasonable.
But not to worry, McKenna’s got other good news to bolster him. According to a recent national survey, Washington state is the seventh-worse state in the nation for a Republican to run for office, as they have a “base” here of only 29% (compared with a Democratic base of 41%). Only Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Maryland have a smaller Republican base.
There are no Republicans in Washington (almost)
Bringing new meaning to “love of country.” Eww.
Darryl forgot to mention that Lou’s already filled a similar role (“See! Bipartisan support!” And really great ideas!”) for Dino Rossi. And Dino’s failure to give Lou a high-profile place in his campaign this last time around was, experts agree, the reason he did so poorly against Patty Murray in a heavily Republican year.
Lou Guzzo, Rob. He’s your man. Go for it.
And if Lou’s busy, Clint Didier’s got some time on his hands. Unless of course, his farm subsidies come through.
@1 Now that Wisconsin’s Republicans have used a parliamentary trick to pass Gov. Walker’s union-stripping bill without a senate quorum, let’s hope that Wisconsin voters will make sure that state is the unfriendliest state in the nation to Republican candidates for the next 100 years.
Meanwhile, it’s time for union supporters and their progressive friends to BOYCOTT Wisconsin businesses. Most business owners are Republicans and you have a God-given RIGHT to not give your money to the people who voted in those anti-worker totalitarians.
I hope they have 200,000 angry public workers and their supporters demonstrating in the Capitol building tomorrow morning to show them what DEMOCRACY looks like. Peacefully, of course.
BOYCOTT!
BOYCOTT!
BOYCOTT!
BOYCOTT!
BOYCOTT!
Do NOT buy anything from Wisconsin!
Boycott suggestions:
Generac
Wigwam Mills
Lands End
Johnsonville Foods
Lots more here
There must be a reason the Republicans can’t find a decent candidate to run for office. More than likely both parties are run by corporate/business interests and so when the shit finally hits the fan and the country is completely in the crapper they can turn around and blame the Democrats.
No Republican could possible spend 1.7 Trillion more thatn he takes in in a year, and I would like to show you any one Republican who has had a budget defecit this high! Period!
McKenna runs away from his attack on the Affordable Care Act (thinkprogress.org)
Scum.
@LD Maybe you think war is free? Something along the line of OPM or other people’s money. And all of the unregulated irrational financial practices of our banks, wall street, and pentagon. So far OPM. The current strategy is to try to push this off on the public as neither party is stepping up, at some point it is going to blow. Neither party is serving the public, the public is serving them and each year we are asked to pay them for this privilege.
Lou Guzzo, man that brings back memories. There was a band call the Dehumanizer’s that hit him back in the 80’s check out DEHUMANIZERS “Kill Lou Guzzo” on youtube it was something of a hit.
He doesn’t like our stupid hairdos
He’s Bald as an eagle
Yea that was funny.
Okay, I’ve checked the major manufacturers in Wisconsin, and I’m not sure that a boycot would have any discernable impact. Their major exports are farm and dairy products, commodities which cannot be easily segregated from the agriculture stream. The most noticable name on the list was Harley-Davidson, but they also have manufacturing facilities elsewhere.
Usually in cases like these the various groups will cancel conventions, etc., in the state, but how many large national organizations schedule conventions in Wisconsin? I checked out three of the convention centers listed for Wisconsin, and all I found were events for local (Wisconsin) organizations.
Would a more direct attack work? Find out the businesses of the Republican legislatures (in general, most state legislative reps are business owners). If their stock is publically traded, organize a boycot of the stock. The national unions can identify them and instruct their pension fund managers to divest themselves of any stock in a business owned or controlled by a Republican assemblyman or senator in Wisconsin.
LD@9 pulls numbers out of her ass, then attempts to make insinuations about the current administration with them. Not worth answering directly, other than to say that this is a typical right-wing obfuscation attempt.
@9:
Hmm, I guess you did not pay attention to George Bush – who turned the largest budget surplus in history in to the largest deficit in history. And ruined the economy too…by letting the deregulated banks go wild.
No DEMOCRAT did that! Talk to Phil Gramm about how the banks needed to be deregulated to make them more competitive.
Shallow thinkers like LD think they are clever when , in fact, they are showing their total ignorance.
@1: McKenna USED to be a moderate – but now he is an anti-union, anti-health care, anti-environmental, pro-business troglodyte thug trying to appease the right wing tiny minority in Washington state.
Regarding Newt Gingrich’s argument that his love of country forced him to work so hard he was forced to have an affair:
“I only regret that I have but one wife to give to my country”.
Or in Newt’s case, at least two wives (so far)…
Lets see how this boycott thing works:
1. Boycott Wisconsin products
2. Wisconsin workers (incl. union) lose jobs
3. State unemployment expense rises
4. State tax revenue goes down
5. Even more state worker lose jobs
6. Repeat 1-5.
Now I see how that will help the state workers!
Lou Guzzo would be perfect for McKenna. He’s had experience with schilling for Republicans. Check out his promotion of Dino Rossi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related