In the last SurveyUSA poll, Susan Hutchison was still receiving support from 33% of Democrats, a clear indication that many, many voters still don’t know who she is and what she stands for. I hope this ad has enough money behind it to help change that.
Stinky Friedman spews:
There’s one overriding issue involving Susan Hutchison which would prevent me from ever voting for her. And that is what we learned about her time at KIRO-TV.
She called in sick on a holiday to go canoeing.
Look, we all take a mental health day every once in a while. But, like in many businesses, in the broadcast business there is an unwritten rule that you do not call in sick on holidays. If you do, you better be in an emergency room somewhere.
And the reason for this rule is simple. Stations are running on skeleton staffs on holidays. The management team is usually not working. Some of the support staff is off. And everyone who is not working has plans for their holiday.
So, if someone calls in sick what they are really doing is screwing everyone else.
The manager who gets the call has his time off interrupted.
The people who then get a call from the manager have their time off interrupted.
The people who make up the skeleton crew have their work day screwed up.
It would be one thing if you were a little under the weather and you still called in sick on a holiday. That would show total disregard for your fellow employees. But maybe it could be forgiven.
But to call in sick on a holiday so that you can do outdoor activities makes you a complete and total douchebag.
It’s the biggest “fuck you” to other employees I’ve ever seen in my life.
It’s a “let them eat cake” mentality.
“I don’t care what these other peons have to do on their holiday, I need some recreation and I’m an ANCHOR and I’m more important than them.”
That is exactly the mentality that seems to infect so many of our political leaders. Look at members of congress. They get caught having affairs. Or impregnating a former campaign worker. Or foot-tapping for sex in a bathroom stall. And yet they want to stay in office.
The rules are not for them. The rules are for the scum. The rules are for the dregs of society. The rules are for you and me. And apparently, to these people, we are just assholes. The rules are not for the leaders. Not for the anchors.
It’s not the “calling in sick” when you’re not, that is so bad. It is the cavalier attitude and the total “fuck-you” to co-workers that is inexcusable to me.
jacob spews:
Goldy, I gotta think you know this ad sucks. She looks good and because she’s talking the whole time it is distracting from the message.
correctnotright spews:
@2: Jacob – part of the point of the ad is that she “looks good” – until you actually look at her experience or political views.
Sarah Palin looks good too – but she knows next to nothing about the world and was totally unqualified.
I think the ad is not that great – but that is because it doesn’t do enough to go after her views (and Reichert is not usually considered far right – although he is certainly a reliable republican vote).
Tom Foss spews:
An ad drives its message when you see it several times. The ad is not about how she looks- its the message being driven, which jumped at me the first time I saw it. The point of the ad is pretty simple- remind Democrats and thinking moderates, who are a huge majority in King County, of who she really is.
She doe s not have the values that King Co. shares- and the people supporting her are exactly the same ones who turned this into a so called non-partisan office.
She is a serial liar and a far right conservative and thats what people need to know. This ad will help.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Morning News Roundup
The King County interim assessor who replaced disgraced assessor Scott Noble has died of a stroke.
The former owner of the Enumclaw horse farm has been arrested in Tennessee for having sex with horses and other farm animals.
A male prostitute testified that Pierce County judge Michael Hecht paid him for sex.
Troll spews:
Goldy’s act is getting tired.
YellowPup spews:
This ad is too mean/sarcastic. If they followed the “earnest female voice” negative ad formula and just told it like it is, it would be more effective.
Dow and the Democrats LIED spews:
How come you have not mentioned how Dow put the lives of the people in the flood district at risk by refusing to even discuss funding for the levies unless he got a YES vote for his foot ferry first????
and to top that off – they LIED about it on the radio…
Monson had it on his show yesterday – inlcuding proof via email about the EXTORTION that they pulled.
Dow and the Democrats LIED spews:
did that little tidbit of info escape the media guru named Goldy?
Dow and the Democrats LIED spews:
Dow proves he is a slimy piece of shit who will put peoples lives at risk to further his pet projects and agenda.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Smear Alert
Republican, oops, nonpartisan port candidate David Doud is running an exeedingly nasty smear campaign against his opponent, Ron Holland.
Last week I heard a Doud radio attack ad that went way beyond dirty; it was downright vicious.
This morning a Seattle Times article says Doud is circulating fliers with a photo of Doud with an ACORN banner in the background. It was taken at an ACORN-sponsored event where several port candidates appeared.
And, according to reader comments under that story, Doud has circulated fliers calling Holland a “welfare cheat” (Holland received unemployment benefits, not welfare) — with Holland’s home address on it — and has conducted push polling in Bellevue asking voters “how likely they would be to vote for Ron Holland if they knew he was black and gay.”
Roger Rabbit spews:
@10 If you want to see a slimy piece of shit look no farther than your party’s port candidate, David Doud.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Whine Alert
“King County executive candidate Susan Hutchison’s campaign released an e-mail today from County Councilmember Reagan Dunn to a council attorney that suggests Dunn was worried he would lose funding for projects in his district if he didn’t vote for a ferry-district tax promoted by executive candidate Dow Constantine.”
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....te-tr.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Er, arm-twisting has gone on in politics, um, since Genesis; and the people on the county council are supposed to be big boys and girls. Maybe Reagan Dunn isn’t ready to play in the Big Sandbox yet?
Roger Rabbit spews:
Goldy, is this ad on local TV? I know a lot of people use YouTube, but a lot of (especially older) people don’t, and to reach the voters it most needs to reach it needs to be on the regular TV channels.
rhp6033 spews:
# 1: Yea, I came to the same conclusion. She got pissed off because she asked for the time off, and management said she couldn’t. So she figured “screw ’em”, and took the time off anyway, calling in sick. That allowed her to persue her river-rafting recreational activities that she preferred.
But somewhere down the line, another employee got a phone call which said – Hutchinson’s out sick, so drop whatever plans you had for the holiday and prepare to go on the air in a couple of hours. And that employee probably told his/her spouse that he/she is sorry, and even though the SUV is already packed with picnic supplies and children strapped to the child seats, the planned trip to the lake for a cook-out and water skiing is going to have to be cancelled at the last minute becuase Suzie Hutchinson caught a cold, or whatever.
In TV news, you have to be on the air as planned, because you can’t have dead air time. Somebody has to be there. You can’t tell them to put the news on her desk, she will catch up when she returns. Somebody has to do it.
Obviously, Hutchinson is rather self-centered, and figures her own recreation is more important than the plans of anybody else.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@1 Well, we know what the Republican attitude toward workers is, don’t we? Republicans used to consider workers “human capital.” Now they consider ordinary workers as expendable as disposable cleaning supplies. (To be fair, their attitude toward shareholders isn’t much better.) So the question is, why does anyone work for these people? In fact, why does anyone work at all? Wages are taxed 3 times as heavily as capital gains and dividends. Health benefits are being taken away and pension funds looted and bankrupted. Job security is nonexistent. If you want any semblance of financial security in Republican World, you have to own stuff, because working doesn’t get it for you anymore. I don’t work! I get paid for owning stuff. Now I live off other people’s work, just like Republicans do, and get nifty tax breaks for not working.
rhp6033 spews:
RR @ 11, 12: I can’t vote in the port race because I live in Snohomish County. But the smear radio ad was so nauseating that I’d have voted against Dowd based solely on that ad. Anybody who authorizes that piece of garbage has no scrupels, and shouldn’t be in government.
Roger Rabbit spews:
@6 No, Goldy’s material is fresh and informative every day; it’s your “act” that is unimaginative, boring, repetitive, superficial, pointless, vacuous, disingenuous, dull, tiresome, redundant, and cloying.
rhp6033 spews:
Correction: Doud? or Dowd? Am I confusing candidates based on spelling?
Roger Rabbit spews:
@8 See #13.
Roger Rabbit spews:
So let me get this straight, Republicans are worried because Democrats run disaster relief around here …
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[rabbits chanting “Katrina! Katrina! Katrina!” in background]
Roger Rabbit spews:
@19 The correcting spelling is “David Doud.”
Roger Rabbit spews:
Doud’s ads are so nauseating that we can hope it’ll backfire and drive voters to his opponent.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Can’t wait to see the Seattle Times endorsement in the Doud – Holland port commission race. Doud may be too swinish for even the ST editorial board to swallow. Even though he’s a Republican, er, a nonpartisan.
Roger Rabbit spews:
I hope King County voters will realize after this election they made a BIG MISTAKE by voting for that GOP “nonpartisan” initiative, and will demand restoration of truth-in-labeling to county politics.
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ArtFart spews:
@5 Here’s something to add to Roger’s list…
Reuters reports that a book hitting the stores today documents a meeting in early June of 2008 that Hank Paulson had with the entire board of directors of Goldman Sachs…in Moscow.
As the economic clouds were gathering, Paulson was later granted a (secret) waiver to talk to company executives and diretors, but at the time of this meeting he was still under a strict “no-contact” agreement with respect to his former employer. The meeting was set up at Paulson’s request with Dept. of Treasury resources. (Both he and the Goldman directors happened to be in Russia at the same time.) One of the subjects that came up was the likelihood of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
ArtFart spews:
@11 To the conservative mind, unemployment compensation is “welfare”–except perhaps to a Republican who’s between jobs him or herself.
Anything that helps ordinary working folks live comfortably or have a degree of control of their fate is anathema to these people. That’s the actual reason for the hit job on ACORN, and why there will no doubt be attacks on similar organizations. Cheap Labor Conservatives want to keep the working class disenfranchised, scared shitless and owing their souls to the company store.
mw37 spews:
@24 Times endorsed Holland.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....attle.html
Puddybud Remembers hatched from a rock spews:
@30 What? They backed the Democrat? Say it ain’t so Joe?
Doesn’t that explode Goldy’s Feces in the grass argument?
KABLAMMMMO!
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czechsaaz spews:
A little OT but, anyone heard the Reject 71 ad on the radio? I hear it several times a day on KING fm.
In a nutshell, “Vote to reject 71 to send the legislature a MESSAGE. Only deal with IMPORTANT issues.”
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Lefty Loosey spews:
Gosh; it sounds as though the trolls are at full volume this morning. Maybe you should get a bib to catch all the spittle flying out of your mouths. I’ll go find your daycare worker.
Meanwhile, Hutchison consistently has shown that she considers herself to be too good to be expected to be held accountable. This ad does nothing to disabuse that notion.
ArtFart spews:
Hutchison would be about as good for King County as L. Paul Bremer was for Iraq.
drool spews:
…or a clear indication they’ve had it with the status quo which Constantine represents. Read what you want into it.
Dow Constipated spews:
That ad looks like its was made by a retarded zebra for about three dollars.
Chris Porter spews:
Crazy dem,
how is it possible that someone with no elected or government background would be considered for the largest county office and job in the state. If she had to interview for this position, her resume would not be considered. Ask her about going back on her promise to the GSBA. (greater Seattle business association) approve 71 position. Susan Hutchison will say anything to get media time, but she will not keep her word. If she is elected to rhis office, hide your uterus and poor people watch out, you will be screwed. She told me that she would have to learn about King county public health because she does not know. I believe that that translates to cut out what you don’tcare about and ignorenthe rest.
Chris Porter
Marvin Stamn spews:
She didn’t seem to be too bothered by the ad, she found them “funny.”
Hutchison called the ad “outlandish” and said the Palin comparison was “funny.”
“The stereotyping of women who run for office is silly. I’m unique. She’s unique. Christine Gregoire is unique. But I think it demonstrates the narrow view we find from my opponent, who likes to lump anyone who doesn’t represent his point-of-view into the same bucket.”
Steve spews:
If that bucket is labeled “Vindictive, shallow and insipid Republicans”, then Palin and Hutchison are a good fit and it has absolutely nothing to do with their gender.