Surprises and unsurprises

Here's the pleasant surprise of the day: The Seattle Times has endorsed Dino Rossi for Governor!

Coming from the private sector, Rossi is more likely to work harder at straightening out 20 years of administrative rules that now encumber our economic recovery. Locke, spurred by Boeing's corporate goodbye, did some of this, to his credit. He set up a Council on Competitiveness. He set up a budget review called Priorities of Government, which Gregoire and Rossi both say they will use.

Our bet is that Rossi will use it more effectively. Simply put, it is difficult to fire your friends, and for 20 years state government has been in the hands of Democrats.
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The central issue in this election is change in the administrative culture of Olympia, and for that reason our support goes to the Republican nominee, Dino Rossi.

Indeed.

In not-so-pleasant unsurprises, the Times has endorsed Patty "Osama Builds More Day Care Facilities Than America" Murray for Senator, while the P-I has endorsed Christine Gregoire for Governor.

In another pleasant surprise, the P-I's Thomas Shapley rains on Gregoire's endorsement parade by pointing out that her campaign is founded on all kinds of bogus claims.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 17, 2004 11:15 AM | Email This