Dan Savage appears a tad frustrated with Seattle politics:
I’ve had it with Peter and Tim and Nick and Richard pansy-assing around about running for mayor. They announce they’re thinking about it, they think about it, and then they announce that running for mayor is just too scary or too expensive or that Greg is just too formidable an opponent. Christ, do these guys have one lonely little nut between the four of ’em?
Dan’s solution to all this pansy-assing? He’s running for mayor. Really. Although he promises to resign 24-hours after being sworn in.
When it comes to the race to replace King County Executive Ron Sims on the other hand, indecisiveness doesn’t appear to be much of a problem. Just a week after he announced he was considering a run, State Sen. Fred Jarrett (D-Mercer Island) is making it official, joining councilmembers Larry Phillips and Dow Constantine in what’s shaping up to be an interesting race.
I know there are a lot of Seattle-centric folks who can’t take their eyes off the battle between Larry and Dow, but I wouldn’t take Fred’s candidacy lightly. He’s got a lot of support amongst social progressives, and should have broader appeal in East King County than the two city slickers.
Great. A former Republican LD Chair who just finished helping kill a bunch of progressive legislation in Olympia.
Can we please keep the fake Democrats in the Legislature and out of King County? Are you listening Ross Hunter?
Won’t Ross Hunter run for this too? Ross against Fred…..Goldy…what will you do???? Your 2 favorites squaring off against each other!
It utterly blows my mind, Goldy, how you can bash the BIAW again and again–rightly–and then lavish praise on Fred Jarrett, without question one of the BIAW’s favorite “Democrats” in the Legislature, simply because he is wise enough not to vote against choice and gay rights like his former Republican Eastside colleagues who are now jobless. On the big issues of the day–environment, transportation, workers’ rights, tax reform–Fred Jarrett is far, far more conservative than King County’s voters.
Too bad Savage plans on resigning if he wins, he’d probably do better as mayor than anyone on the short list.
Well, Dan got excellent policy-wonkette training while serving as a Republican precinct person and while licking Gary Bauer’s knobs.
Jarrett has a lot of appeal among Eastside independents and not a few moderate Democrats, at least within the Bellevue-Mercer Island axis. He might also get some support from the regional PTAs in return for his attempt to get a tougher, updated set of state educational standards in place. (The spokesman for that tended to be Ross Hunter, but Fred was involved.)
That said, he has irked more than a few hardcore Dems this session, most especially regarding his vote against the Senate version of the Homeowners’ Bill of Rights. Some Republicans still hate him intensely, not because he switched parties, but because he won his first race for the state legislature in 2000 as a result of winning the Republican primary (there was no Democratic candidate at the time) by the bearest of margins, knocking out two conservative competitors in the process.
Another thing to note is that 2000 was Fred’s only truly competitive race (though his 2006 re-election race almost got interesting). I don’t know Constantine as well as Phillips, but Phillips will definitely do whatever it takes to win this race. Fred will have to make a very serious commitment in both time and money to win.
It is a good day for Seattle finally the pi has seen it’s day.
Horsey and that fat big mouth fool that preys on kids (He lives in the San Juan Islands) Hope you both never get a job.
I’d certainly vote for Savage in preference to the guy we have now. The man doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and he sure doesn’t mince words. It’d be….interesting.
I’ve asked before, and I’m asking again — are any
wingnut wackosreal Republicans going to run for County Executive? Isn’t there an Irons or Roach or Dunn out there in the looniverse who wants the office?I mean, just because they bamboozled the populace into calling county offices “nonpartisan” doesn’t mean that partisans are staying out of the competition.
Fred Jarrett or Ross Hunter would be far better as county exec than the others who have announced. They are smart and know their stuff when it comes to policy and making government work for the people.