Over at the P-I’s Strange Bedfellows blog, Joel Connelly reports that King County Executive Ron Sims is being vetted by the FBI, an indication that he’s up for an appointment in the Obama administration, an intriguing prospect that would produce an audible sigh of relief from political friends and foes alike, across the political spectrum.
For our county’s swarm of executive wannabes, tired of waiting their turn to measure the drapes, yet too timid to challenge a popular incumbent, a Sims appointment would be a dream come true, setting the stage for an old fashioned political free for all this coming November.
Likewise, I’m sure I’m not the only Sims supporter who kinda sorta dreads the prospect of a run for a fourth term. Executives are different from legislators, in that they tend to accumulate blame and enemies, eventually wearing out their welcome with voters and constituency groups. Third terms are difficult enough to win, while four-term mayors, governors and the like are nearly unprecedented outside the safety of a political machine… the kinda machine we definitely don’t have here in WA state.
I’d hate to see Sims end his career losing to a lesser challenger, simply because voters tired of him, and thus I would welcome a high profile DC appointment both as a reward for Ron’s years of principled leadership and public service, and… well… as an easy out from a potentially heart breaking political defeat.
But… I’m guessing a lot of qualified folks are being vetted by the FBI these days, so for now it’s all speculation.
The Weekly had an interesting perspective on Sims
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2.....eady-gone/
The Seattle Weekly? I won’t read that rightwing rag unless someone pays me.
Its free, and worth every cent!
Actually the Weekly has better local coverage than the dailies, admittedly a pretty low bar.
The Weekly used to be a good paper until the yahoos took it over.
Let’s keep it on topic, people.
– HA Comment Moderator (unofficial)
Can we get them to take Nickels too?
It’s funny, I hear these complaints about Sims and Nickels, but I don’t hear many alternatives being tossed around.
How many folks here are jazzed about the prospects for Executive Larry Philips? Or Mayor Greg Smith?
King County Executive Darcy Burner?
They can’t even get an alternative to McDermott.
Now there’s a real opportunity to put an adult in office.
DC: that’s a good place for Sims to be. At least he won’t be here.
Obama just wants to know how Sims stole 2004
from Rossi so they can use it as a model across the country. Shameful fucking pigs.
Now that all King County offices are officially nonpartisan, will the Democratic PCO’s have any official role in picking Ron Sims’ successor?
Article II, Section 15 of the Washington Constitution provides for the PCO’s of the same party held by the partisan office holder to nominate three people, and for the county legislative authority to choose one of these to fill the vacant position.
On the other hand, nonpartisan offices are simply filled by a vote of the county council of whomever they please, without having to choose from a list provided by a political party.
Good catch, Richard. I’ll bet that hasn’t been considered yet.
Richard Pope, we all know fat chance on that.
Obama will choose Ron Tax to the Max Sims for his tax policy.
I have to admit it’s refreshing to see Donk argue among themselves about the useless Donk they vote for all the time and complain about them all the time.
Thanks for the smile today.
Sims is a great politician but one often needs that insecurity of being a newcomer to be effective in your post.
When you spend too much time in a particular office you begin to take it for granted and not maximize your potential. And that’s what I think happened to Sims. I change of scene will make him more effective in the new role than he was in his last years as King County exec.
Sims probably isn’t going anywhere. There are probably ten other people they’re looking at for that one position. The FBI will vet them all, then the Obama administration will select the best out of the ten.
Pelletizer, you wouldn’t know a good newspaper if someone threw it into your burrow and smacked that little rabbit pee-pee.
Sometimes K surprises me. .00001% of the time that is.
Nooooooooooooooooooo, Sims not the best choice? Say it ain’t soooooooooooooo.
Drool,
I agree. McDimWitt is again the laughingstock of Congress now William Frozen Money Jefferson is out…
Maybe they want Max Tax Sims because of his Global Warming positions.
But then again after watching this, I wonder…
Puddy finds the funnies…
Pud said something (slightly) nice about me. I need a shower.
K – about time you did too! Hey when you say something worthwhile I’ll give you kudos.
But then again after watching this, I wonder…
Wonder what? That anybody calling themselves a sentinet human being could write anything that bad? I mean really, “five drowning polar bears”? (they have to sing the words “polar bears” really fast to make it fit).
Laughably inept.
@6 Fuck you! … Any questions?
ProudOfHisASS: Beats that YouTube Crap put up here by you guys…
Maybe Max Tax Sims will help with Donkey fraud artist like Madoff.
Looks like Madoff hurt many Donk charitable funds.
Maybe HA Donk can chip in a few coin to bail them out of their losses… Wait, what am I thinking, Donk are cheep bastards/bitches. They give 30% less than their conservative counterparts.
Tommy Thompson – Bernie Madoff in action
Maybe Max Tax Sims will work with Biden’s new communications chief. He comes direct from the Washington Post bureau chief Jay Carney. What no media bias?
http://swampland.blogs.time.co.....-swampland has been removed but part of his fart was:
” The last point about emulating Bush’s press relations is worth further analysis. It is certainly true that Clinton Administration veterans used to intersperse their criticisms of the Bush White House with grudging, and sometimes glowing, admiration for the way it brow-beat the press into submission. At least that was what you would hear during Bush’s first term. (Along the lines of, “If we ever get back in, we’re going to do that!”) What you’ve heard since from Clinton vets and other Democratic operatives is that the open contempt for the press exhibited by the Bush operation eventually backfired, not just as a matter of public relations but, far more gravely, as a function of governance. The assumption that journalists were the enemy and that everything they wrote was biased and wrong — about Iraq, for example — only added to the insulation of the White House from reality as the President’s public support began to plummet. And that insulation from reality is at least partly to blame for some of Bush’s worst mistakes — including his response to Katrina and his insistence, for several years, that the U.S. was “making progress” in Iraq, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I suspect that sorry history is not lost on the Clinton team — which is made up of veterans of both New York politics and an eight-year administration. There is a difference between aggressively trying to manage the media during a campaign on what are largely political process stories and having so much disdain for reporting itself that you discount it and lose touch with reality.”
Who woulda thunk that Goldstein actually writes something true and someone understanding about President Bush:
“Executives are different from legislators, in that they tend to accumulate blame and enemies, eventually wearing out their welcome with voters and constituency groups. ”
Wow
29 Yeah right…the “radical leftist” Washington Post, actually a conservative newspaper, whose publisher only grudgingly allowed the Watergate story to run after being convinced that if they didn’t someone else would eventually go with it and they’d be left looking like idiots.
The only thing that makes the WP appear “liberal” nowadays is the existence across town of the Moonie Gazette.
Like all righties, Puddy, you’re perfectly willing to “adjust” history to fit your own delusions.
I like Ron Sims, but he has a habit of making promises he ought to know he doesn’t have a prayer of fulfilling–at least working at the local level.
If he gets a gig in the Obama government, he’ll no doubt be involved in a way that he can let his idealism, his faith and his ability to see the “big picture” work to help create a “new new deal”, using Uncle Sam’s ability to print money more or less as needed. It’ll be nice for a change to see some of that newly minted money putting ordinary people to work building things instead of maintaining the pampered lifestyles of crooked Wall Street executives.
“How many folks here are jazzed about the prospects for Executive Larry Philips?”
How about Bob Ferguson?
FartyArt: Actually if you did your own due diligence, you’d determine the vast majority of WaPo reporters and editors are leftists. But since you FartyArt hang on every word of the HA leftists you miss facts.
In 2004 Washington journalists favored Kerry over Bush 12 to 1.
Soon we’ll see the 2008 values. They’ll be close to the same since 1964 when the study was first conducted.
But FartyArt, I realize you an old man so let me help you
Bad news for the crazy GOP idiots who we bent over and fucked in the ass on Nov. 4. http://www.thenewstribune.com/.....68879.html
President Obama. Has a nice ring to it. Probably causes the cowards on the right who hope our country fails to scream. Just like they did when we fucked them in the ass on Nov 4, rejecting them, their offspring, their lies, their mindless attacks, their deceit, their bullshit and their very worthless existence.
Even if Ron Sims does leave, there is still another tax and spend Donkey waiting in the wings to take his place in this cowtown. One party rule produces the type of corruption that we see in the sewers of Chicago/Illinois politics. Seattle/WA state isn’t far behind with no checks and balances in place as long as David Goldstain and his merry band of blind mice just follow along with the politics as usual here.
Just call it what it is ArtFart, you want socialism. You want your mommy to wipe your bottom for you just like the old days and since she isn’t around, big Government will have to do. If you want that Art, there’s an island country about 90 miles off the coast of key west that you can go to and enjoy.
Also, just printing money willey nilley without anything backing it up is the height of ignorance as to how our economic system works.
Little Rickie Dumbass – if you don’t like it here,
GTFO.
It’s a free country yet you prefer to live under “socialism”.
What a moron. Here’s the true face of Republicans:
http://www.republicanoffenders.com/
Bunch of thieving, sex-perverted criminals.
Puddy @ 34: Equating the voting records of journalists in the Bush/Kerry race to prove a “bias” isn’t necessarily dispositive of the issue.
After all, the journalists in D.C. tend to be particularly well-informed with respect to national and international issues, and have much more frequent contact with policy makers than the average newspaper writer. They may have well come to the unbiased conclusion that just about ANYBODY was better than Bush as President. The fact that they came to this conclusion about a year before it was obvious to 70 +% of the rest of the country just might show how bright they are.
There is no requirement that every paper make sure that it has a 50/50 balance between the parties in it’s representation of journalists. That’s a false argument created by someone who desperately wants their minority interest (i.e., Republican) viewpoint represented, regardless of it’s validity.
By the way – any information on the voting records of the folks over there at Fox News?
Puddy # 34 (continued)….
But since you want mainstream journalists to reflect the voting patterns in the 2004 election, I presume that would include firing Republican-voting journalists in order to match the respective split of the 2008 election?
Or perhaps we should apply the “fairness doctrine” to newspapers? That would give Murdoch a fit, for sure!
8. Goldy spews:
That’s because King Kounty politics is on the same low level as Kook Kounty politics in Illinois. I think Sims will prove to be an embarrassment to Obama..
I’m just sayin’——
Thanks a million, Pudwhacker, but I don’t need your help.
So….let me see if I’ve got this straight. If the United States government conjures hundreds of billions of dollars out of nothing but the sweat of several generations of unborn Americans and hands it over to a few inbred upper-class twits, it’s “maintaining our vital financial infrastructure” or some such nonsense. On the other hand, if we tax the rich fucks who got us into this mess and use it to reindustrialize the country, it’s “socialism”?
In that case, I’ll take a double helping of socialism, please.
31. ArtFart spews:
AF—
You are a real stitch this AM.
Citing one incident (Watergate) from 35 years ago to make the case that the Washington Post is somehow Conservative is mighty lame AF.
Even David Patterson (D-NY) can see that!
Hey AF–
Like how Madoff, the crooked Democrat, screwed Spielberg and a bunch of others??
Spielberg is no victim.
Who would give Madoff all this money when the oversight was Madoff’s 78 year-old accountant??
Sheesh.
rhp6033:
Time to call BULLSHITTIUM! You are crazy rhp. Why? they talk to themselves all the time. They were the originators of flyover country. Do you need to see the link rhp?
rhp6033: If the “Fairness Doctrine” needs application, it need universal application.
Movies
TV Shows
Ed Schultz
MSNBC – Can you see Keith The Moron Olbermann or Rachel The Madcow Maddow having to deal…?
Weather Channel – Where is the Global Cooling Show?
CNN
PBS
ABC
CBS
NBC
Oprah Winfrey
Ellen The Degenerate
Jerry Springer – Although I’m sure yelling loser boy uses his Eye on Perversion to order those non-pixelated shows.
Evening News
NPR – Nothing Considered, Bill Moyers
Jon Stewart
BET
etc.
I left off Maury Povich cuz I like to see the reactions of men when they find out they are the father and women when they find out he isn’t the father…
FartyArt@42: My help is worth more than millions but I gave it to you freely, and that’s the response I get for assisting your stupidity?
Hmmmph…
Cynical, as soon as I saw Bernie Madoff and his cash clientele I had to check his political clientele too.
This is wonderful. While whack-jobs like yelling loser boy replay those two Republican web sites, we get fresh news every day. Madoff is a jackASS we on the right will ride for a long time…
@49 “we on the right will ride for a long time…”
To oblivion, no doubt. I take it that you guys don’t want to win any more elections. Full speed ahead to the backwaters of American political culture!
Puddy,
Is it bias if you favor evolution over creationism?
A huge part of your problem, other than that small operation wonders do to male cats when they are young (sorry), is that you equate rationality with bias.
I know you are a fact oriented
guycat , asam II am a fact oriented yid, BUT I am also well to your left. To my taste most of of your list os pretty much middle of the road when ti comes to stances on anything.So riddle me this. my fur ball friend, whic out of your last has ever supported or advocated the following leftish ideas:
1. recognition of Cuba?
2. state ownership of the means of production?
3. free education for all?
4. affirmative action based on socio economics?
5. a national, required curriculum?
6. confiscatory taxation of wealth (as opposed to income).
7. religion as an opiate.
Now, lets ask the same question vice versa>
Which of your list, or of all American media has
1. demonized Cuba?
2. lauded free enterprise as the natural solution to all problems?
3. promoted tuition hikes in public schools and opposed taxation of wealthy private colleges?
4. affirmative action based parental traditions?
5. local control of curriculum?
6.lower taxes?
7. loss of faith as weaken ing American morality?
As I see our media are VERY biased, toward your side.
BTW, next time your mistress serves you tuna, be sure it is dolphin free!
SeattleJew: Before I attempt to answer your question my friend, why this list?