Congratulations to the Seattle Times editorial board for finally surprising me with an endorsement, choosing Republican Marcia McCraw for lieutenant governor over the incumbent pseudo-Democrat Brad Owen.
But, uh-oh…
Republican Marcia McCraw has a complicated personal story that gives us pause, but she represents an opportunity for an infusion of new ideas and energy.
Now that’s a red flag if I ever saw one… reminiscent of when Joni Balter obliquely attributed David Iron’s mother’s refusal to vote for her own son to a “different family matter,” but refused to explain any further. Yeah, the Times admits, McCraw has “a complicated personal story,” but don’t you voters worry your pretty little heads with grownup stuff like that. We’ve endorsed McCraw, and that’s all you really need to know.
So what is so complicated about McCraw’s personal story? Could the complication have anything to do with McCraw’s 2006 drunk driving conviction, a serious crime that’s killed almost as many political careers as it has innocent victims? (Which raises the question: when McCraw and her boss Jane Hague go out for drinks after work, who’s the designated driver?)
Is it really possible that the same paper that turned a questionable parsing of the word “and” in Darcy Burner’s Harvard degree into a front page October surprise, has the balls to dismiss McCraw’s drunk driving conviction as shhhh… “a complicated personal story,” and just leave it at that?
Apparently… yeah.
Personally, I can’t bring myself to cast another ballot for Owen, but I’m sure as hell not voting for McCraw either. But then, I’m not one of those coveted “low information voters” the Times apparently embraces as its target audience.
“…I’m not one of those coveted “low information voters” the Times apparently creates as its target audience.”
Just vote for Marcia McCraw.
All Dems for statewide office but vote for McCraw and Sam Reed. Its not like Brad Owen will not win, but at least lets show that there is some opposition to his big spending ways. He wanted to charge taxpayers for a security detail for his wife. He also has state troopers go overseas with him, like anybody knows who he is or cares.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....en26m.html
Let’s not forget how many times Joni Balter writes that “voters are not stupid”. The way the editorial board treats its readers you sure gotta feel they think voters are indeed too stupid to provide the facts and truth to.
My standing rule is that I will vote for a turnip before I’ll vote for a Republican. May have to pass on ths race. Brad Owen is more a turd than a turnip.
Eh….some of us might like to fantasize about the total obliteration of the Republican party. Ain’t gonna happen, and if it did, there’d have to be something to replace it. In any single party system, hubris and corruption will eventually take over.
So, the alternative is to do whatever’s possible to make it so someday, the crooks and crazies that presently control the GOP get replaced by saner, more honest folks. There’s nothing to help a group of people rise in a political organization like having them be the ones who actually win elections. McCraw certainly isn’t perfect, but she’s a hell of a lot different from the junior-league Karl Roves like Esser, the obnoxious attention whores like Eyman, the dominionist whack jobs, or the BIAW knuckle draggers.
I’d vote for a progressive Republican over a corrupt Democrat.
I voted for McCraw and Reed.
McCraw just because I hate Owen that much and because she’s for some sanity in drug laws (vs. Owen’s big crusade against pot).
One downside of “top two” is I can’t cast my usual vote for the Libertarian candidate for Lt. Governor.
Reed because he’s one of the few “Evans Republicans” left in office in this state, he does his job, and his opponent is a wacko conspiracy theorist who has never run an election in his life even as a poll worker.
Mois trois ….
Me three. I already voted for McCaw.
The failure of the Dem Party to make an organized effort at a state ticket is horrible. If I were running the Rossi campaign I would tie the Owen-albatross around her neck and she would effin loose!
This is so stupid. If Gregoire does win, ny now it ios clear that her talents are administrative rather than leadership in the public, political sense. Those talents are far more likely to pay of as a member of the Obama administration (interior? ag?) than shepherding our clumsy state and dysfunctional party. I find it hard to imagine that she will not have opportunities in Washington East but the result, Bard Owen, is unthinkable.
btw “Bard Owen, is meant as a pun, not my usual typo!”
Lee …
What say YOU on this one?
It seems to me that the Owen-McCraw decision is a good example of putting liberal ideology ahead of partisan loyalty!
I feel the same way about Sam Reed. Goldmark, OTOH .. he is The One. Gad would he have been an awesome choice for LG!
A lot of people don’t know that Sam Reed tried to ram through the “no match, no vote” scam that was tried and canned in Florida – disenfranchisement by typo, an ugly vote suppression technique designed to bring WA State into the red column.
I can’t forgive him for that no matter how much he paints himself as a Dan Evans Republican.
Osgood gets my vote.
I skipped LtGov. It was an easy decision.
And, like YLB and for much the same reason, I voted for Osgood.
Write in Roger Rabbit! I’ll accept the nomination if drafted and serve if elected. I hadn’t planned to do this but I can always use the extra money, especially in times like these — I may never see another buying opportunity like this. The LTGOV’s higher salary will boost my state pension, and in addition I can double-dip for 30 months (i.e., draw salary and pension at the same time), so given those circumstances I’m willing to be a candidate. Gotta admit, though, I never thought I’d do this.
So, if you can’t vote for Owen or McCraw … write in
ROGER RABBIT
for Lieutenant Governor.
My personal story isn’t very complicated:
Worked my way through college and law school.
Enlisted in the Army and served in Vietnam.
No drunk driving.
No criminal convictions.
No parking tickets.
No littering tickets.
Reliable liberal voting record.
Environmentalist.
Minor in economics.
Two long pink ears and a cute fluffy cottontail.
Over 10,000 children. Number of grandchildren unknown.
Yes, if elected, I’ll be a voice for feral fauna all over the state including birds, fish, and animals! And I’ll represent you stupid humans, too.