As Publicola reported yesterday, Dow Constantine went on the offensive in the King County Executive race (or at least as offensive as the mild-mannered councilman can get), insisting that the politically reclusive Susan Hutchison has “an obligation to voters” to explain her positions to voters.
Calling her “pleasant” but “far to the right of the electorate of King County,” Constantine said, “that’s fine, everybody has a right to their political opinions, but if you’re holding yourself out as a candidate for the highest office in King County, you have an obligation to voters to tell them where you stand.”
Constantine wanted to know where Hutchison stood on a women’s right to choose—which he said was a relevant issue for King County Executive because King County Health runs health clinics, like one in White Center, that counsel low-income women on pregnancy issues.
Not surprisingly, Hutchison took umbrage at Constantine citing her many conservative Republican bona fides, loudly complaining to the Seattle P-I’s Chris Grygiel:
“This is inexcusable. In sum total he’s accused me of being an extremist and I’m a moderate.”
But when asked what she would say to voters to demonstrate her self-proclaimed moderation, Hutchison demurred:
“I don’t have to say anything to the voters,” said Hutchison, a long-time local television personality. “They’ve known me for 20 years on the air. They’ve known me for another seven years as someone who has served in the community.”
Really, Susan? You’re running for countywide office… essentially the equivalent of being the governor of a small state… and you honestly believe that you don’t have to say anything to the voters? That’s your final answer?
On second thought, perhaps holing Hutchison up in an undisclosed location is in fact the best political strategy her Republican handlers can reasonably devise, considering the arrogant, haughty and uninformed candidate they’re working with.
Susan who? Don’t know ya, lady. Don’t watch your channel, and even if I did, listening to you deliver the daily crime blotter over the air doesn’t tell me anything about your positions on potholes, taxes, the Tunnel, health inspections of food establishments, funding the courts, etc. You don’t have to tell me, of course. But then, I don’t have to vote for you, of course. Hey Sue, wanna suck my rabbit dick? For a unique thrill, call 1-900-SUCK-ROG; all proceeds go to the Help Roger Rabbit Live Like A Republican News Anchor Fund.
Looks to me like King County’s population is larger than 13 or 14 of our least populated states.
Wouldn’t worry about Susan, she just hung her self with her own rope. Bye, bye, Susan.
Remember the contentious discussion on this blog about former Miss California Carrie Prejean’s remarks about gay marriage?
I say “former” because the Miss USA organization fired her ass today — less than a month after Miss USA owner Donald Trump announced she would retain her crown.
The organization cited “continuing breach of contract issues” as the reason for stripping her of the sash and tiara. Reportedly, she refused to cooperate with a Playboy photo shoot arranged by the organization. According to entertainment blogs, she found out about her firing from a TV host, on the air.
Oh well, now she knows what unemployment feels like; lots of other people in that boat.
her refusal to talk to this point seems on par with the state’s Elephant party trying to be a tad dishonest with voters….having candidates delare the GOP party and not Republican was crappy enough and now just a refusal to state her views is just wrong for anyone running for office.
Fox news is publishing leaked e-mail texts. The Miss California officials are just trying to explain to Prejean why it is important that she coordinate appearances with them and their “master schedule”, but she isn’t being very cooperative.
In the e-mail texts, Prejean is insisting that her schedule is none of their business, that they should simply forward all e-mail requests for appearances to her to handle herself, and she accuses them of “picking and choosing” her appearances (which I would think was part of their job), and of trying to take a cut of the money she would be paid from her personal appearances. (I have no idea what her contract says, but I would be surprised if the Miss California organization didn’t get a cut of her appearance fees, if for nothing else than to offset the costs of managing her).
Anyway, it appears that she’s acting in a pretty juvenile fashion, which leads me to believe that somebody is giving her bad advice (i.e., Hey, you earned that money yourself, they don’t have any right to it!). Perhaps she has also been bitten by the “Sarah Palin bug”, and has been overly affected by those who are constantly praising her for her political/religious views, and thinks she has found her “base” for higher aspirations – perhaps as a pretty face for Fox News?
But that brings us back to the source, which is Fox News, which means the e-mail texts could be a complete fabrication or subject to some creative editing, for whatever reason might motivate both Fox News and whoever is the primary source.
So – does Palin have some potential competition for the Republican party evangelical/right-wing base? Prejean is prettier than Palin ever was, and at least her voice isn’t as grating as is Palin’s. Or has Fox News pulled the carpet out from under her, either because (a) Palin is already their annointed next candidate, or (b) nobody goes head-to-head against “the Donald” (Trump) without getting run over in the process.
As for the Playboy spread story – I think that’s complete B.S. I can’t see Miss California organization pushing their reigning queen into a photo spread which would pretty much disqualify her from being eligable for the Miss America crown. Either she made it up out of whole cloth (thinking it would make her look more virtuous), or it was taken out of context (she insists all offers be forwarded to her, they then forward a Playboy offer they had previously rejected without even bothering with a reply, she then insists they tried to force it upon her).
I wonder if Prejean has to give her implants back.
Looks like I forgot to close my hyperlink to the article – it messed up the rest of the text.
rhp @7,
Closed the tag for you, though I’m not sure if I did it where you wanted it.
Hmmm…..time for more popcorn!
Before tghe bad mouthing gets too strong, can som eone post some facts her?
It’s clear Hutchison’s strategy is to quietly fundraise until August and coast through the primary on name recognition alone.
However it looks like at least one of the serious candidates in the race isn’t about to let her get away with that. At some point she’s going to have to answer some issue questions on the record if she keeps ducking public appearances and refusing to take a position on anything she’ll be toast in November.
So, what are the issues?
I know she was on the board at the Discovery Foundation but she has also worked with Szymogi as director of his foundation.
Besides being a Godder, what else is there we know about her?
She said that Government is bloated, and that she would bring “a new day of collaboration”!
Whatever that means.
She’s an anti-government evangelical fundy. Government is bad, incompetent, the problem…etc…
She’s a Bobby Jindal “Americans can do anything” (apparently forgetting that Government employees are, actually, for the most part American) cheerleader, and Government can’t do anything, so don’t even try.
That’s all she needs to know.
Cut taxes, cut spending.
It’s easy. You don’t have to actually know anything. What she “believes” is the beginning, middle, and end of every argument.
Just like Bush.
Personally, I’d like to have someone in office that actually knows something about King County Government, and believes that some of the stuff it does is actually good for people.
Goldy quotes her as saying “I don’t have to say anything to the voters.” But earlier quotes had her just saying “I don’t have to say anything.” And a journalist added … to the voters, without quotation marks. So it read, “I don’t have to say anything” to the voters. Now Goldy is throwing quotation marks around the whole thing.
Hmmm.
Troll’s comment at 14 has no bearing on anything.
As for Hutchison, she’s an extremist.
“The Insane Campaign Against Susan Hutchison
By Mark Fefer in Campaign 2009, Seattle Post-IntelligencerThursday, Jun. 11 2009 @ 12:22PM
Susan Hutchison: “I don’t have to say anything” to voters.
That’s the above-the-fold headline on seattlepi.com today. Given that Hutchison has been, until very recently, avoiding saying anything to the press or anyone else, you might assume this was her arrogantly asserting her right to be elected without deigning to speak to the electorate. But when you read the story, that’s plainly not the context.
Hutchison was asked what she would say to the voters to demonstrate that she is a moderate.
“I don’t have to say anything to the voters,” said Hutchison, a long-time local television personality. “They’ve known me for 20 years on the air. They’ve known me for another seven years as someone who has served in the community.”
In other words the reporter put her on the defensive by asking, in essence, how she’d convince liberally correct Seattleites that she’s not a right-wing monster. And she replied that she wouldn’t have to say anything because they don’t think of her that way.”
The full article: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com.....nst_su.php
@14 “Now Goldy is throwing quotation marks around the whole thing.”
@16 “I don’t have to say anything to the voters,” said Hutchison
C’mon, Troll, you can do better than that.
@ 5 ~ This isn’t the obsess with Carry Prejean thread.
Of course, Goldy is being a disingenous twit here as he’s focusing on the words in bold type that he and his fellow libtards at the former dead tree press turned on-line shitty reporting site- yes, that’s you Joel C.- fixated on in the title of their column.
Everyone that’s been here for any length of time has gotten to know Susan Hutchison from her time as a TV personality and anchorwoman on the nightly local news. Given the field of useless candidates, I’d say she’s got a pretty good shot. Not to mention my vote.
@18 And watching her read the news on the tube is telling us exactly what about her? That she can read a fucking teleprompter? I thought you fucktards had issues with politicians reading teleprompters.
“This isn’t the obsess with Carry Prejean thread.”
Indeed. This is the “RickyD fucks goats” thread.
Reading from [teleprompters] is one thing. Being dependent on them to think for you, like the president, is another.
basis, lex?
@ 21 ~ it’s the information age, ‘k’. Just go to ‘youtube’ and search Obama + teleprompter…you’ll have plenty of video to view which will back up my assertion.
Ronnie Raygun read pretty well from a teleprompter as I recall. There wasn’t much thinking beyond reciting well worn right wing bromides.
In Obama’s interviews with Steve Kroft, Brian Williams and many others there’s no teleprompters in sight.
Little Ricky Dumbass is just doing what dumbasses do. See ya in eight years,
Little Ricky Dumbass!
@23 the peeking eye into the mensroom stall guy:
Who are you referring to in that incoherent rant? no one by that name has posted on this thread… My advice? quit huffing paint….oh and quit looking into bathroom stalls for your perverted sexual gratification.
If you want to get an idea of Hutchison’s politics, go to the Web site of the Washington Policy Center and browse through their video archives. I’d suggest you hurry, because as soon as they become aware that there’s a public buzz about this stuff, they’re going to make it disappear. The state or county cable channel might have their own copies of some of these. You’ll find plenty of examples of Hutchison fawning all over the likes of Jeb Bush and Newt Gingrich calling them things like “true American heroes”.
24 – referring to you,
Little Ricky Dumbass.
Look at my comments fool. There’s no talking up homosexual male encounters.
YOU on the other hand, uh, bring it up quite often…
ahhhhhhhh.. This is telling indeed.
@13 “She said that Government is bloated”
Given that 75% of the county budget is police, courts, and jails, she apparently wants to lay off cops and prosecutors and let criminals out of jail.
@15 More likely she’s a clueless airhead who knows next to nothing about county government, in which case saying nothing is her best strategy option, because anything she says will make her look bad.
@18 “This isn’t the obsess with Carry Prejean thread.”
This thread is about Republican airheads, and Ms. Prejean is well within that topic.
@20 And you know the difference? Nah.
@26 Good Lord, he was outed hours ago. Too fucking funny, YLB. Damn, this has been a great day for LMFAO at these dumb fucks.
@29
I’ll put the over/under at 2 weeks before Ms. Prejean is employed as a “Fox News Analyst”.
Money Line:
Over -125
Under +115
Place your bets!
No, you prefer to keep you filthy little sexual proclivity on the down low, but your beady little pervert eye avatar undermines any argument you try to make to the contrary. Despite your protestations, we all know YLB’s a peeping perv.
If she would have said “yes, I agree with gay marriage”, Ol’ roadkill and the rest of goldy’s handpuppets in here would be nodding in agreement declaring her a mensa member. You kiddies are too bleeding stupid for words. And no, Roadkill, the article is about the Northwests most beloved TV news personality and her wading into local politics. Check with your anger managemnt counselor as to why Ms. Prejean has your furry, little noggin planted firmly in your pellet hole.
If by outed you mean when I was banned by Goldy using Rick D. for the first several threads I still signed at the bottom Rick D- I realize that throws some of the mental midget trolls off here at HA, but even Dumbass Darryl saw that and remembered it…or checked the IP address.
Poor little Ricky Dumbass.. Your projections are a silly deflection from the overwhelming REALITY that you and your kind have been
DEFEATED!!!!
clueless wonder still Yearns4LittleBoys?
Puddy likes it! Thanks Lex. You’ve successfully identified Steve and his goat proclivities through photographic evidence and clueless wonder and his little boy proclivity. Keep up the great detective work.