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Posted by Brian Crouch at January 17, 2005 07:40 PM | Email ThisSHARK FOR KING CO EXECUTIVE!!!!
Posted by: Brad on January 17, 2005 08:31 PMI would love to have a revote for the 2000 elections as well!
The more I become involved with this - sorting through the pile of productive google finds, blog arguments, documents, media stories, case law, witness statements, 2 decades of election history in our State...etc....the more I have to shake my head....
It breaks my heart. It angers me!
There is reasonable doubt in my mind..that our Washington State elections have been honest or fair for many years!
Posted by: Deborah on January 17, 2005 08:32 PMBut even if we found wrongdoing, can we do anything about it now? Recall Cantwell and re-install Gorton?
What I would like to see happen is Sims, Logan, Murray, Cantwell, Gregoire, Reed, and McDermott tarred, feathered, and run out of town. Or at least their politicals careers destroyed once and for all.
What can I do to help?
Posted by: ERNurse on January 17, 2005 08:46 PMNO MORE!! In order to clean up these Voter Registrations in King County, we will need thousands of determined volunteers ready, willing and able to make phone calls and investigate questionable registrations.
Are you up for it??
Typically the R's can get riled up, but when it comes time to volunteer the time & money to fix a major problem, the R's have "short arms" and "something else more important to do."
Cleaning up this mess is not solely a job for the white-hairs, although bless them for their determination. We need a strong presence of determined young blood.
The next Chair of the State Republican Party MUST be able to rally the troops and make this "CLEAN-UP the #1 PRIORITY!!
AGREED?????
Patience is also important, because it will not happen overnight. Also, maybe there will more decent people like Sonntag and Sheldon who show up as D's and enable there to be a more honest debate. Maybe this sounds somewhat like pie in the sky, but I am more optimistic than I was a month ago with respect to local issues. Lessons were learned - put those behind us and realize that a leopard doesn't change it's spots and keep it up !
Posted by: KS on January 17, 2005 09:10 PMCantwell, SO not legitimate. (and I'll bet she doesn't visit every county anymore--someone ought to ask if she's still doing that..)
Posted by: Michele S on January 17, 2005 09:14 PMI have to agree with you! We have only ourselves to blame!
We should have raised our collective voice years ago when we started scratching our heads at the election upsets! Especially those upsets that mysteriously came with weeks of absentee ballot counts!
It's as though a veil has been ripped off of our eyes!
It's going to be impossible to put it back on.....
Posted by: Deborah on January 17, 2005 09:33 PMI'M NOT LETTING THIS GO AND I HOPE DINO GOES ALL THE WAY TO THE US SUPREME COURT IF NECESSARY!
To all those who say that he should hang it up and run against Cantwell in 2006 - GET BENT!
Look at what happened in 2000 - and look at what has changed. NOTHING!
The Democrats can run, but they can't hide! Well, actually, they DO like to run and hide - but we'll find them!
Posted by: Larry on January 17, 2005 09:45 PMDarn right. And Carlson and Craswell were robbed of their victory as well.
(this must be a slow blog day)
Posted by: Erik on January 17, 2005 10:07 PMMichele, the poster I referred to and quoted did not reference the current election with the 129 vote difference you cite, but the Gorton Cantwell Senatorial election in 2000.
In this election, Cantwell won by 2229 votes.
http://www.secstate.wa.gov/elections/results_report.aspx?e=20&c=&c2=&t=740&t2=&p=&p2=&y=&c3=
Posted by: Erik on January 18, 2005 01:43 AMLike you, I agree not only with your post, but also that leadership starts at the top. Vance is on his current bandwagon because its politically expedient for him...had this election not ended as it has you would not have heard a peep out of him until the next cycle. My conversations w/ Senator Gorton, where I expressed my outrage at the lack of support given to L. Smith by the Repub. Party, also led to some other conclusions. There are to distinct groups with the Republican Party. Vance has been installed by those national powers that be, largely because he does not rock the boat. This might explain why our base is not motivated in the off years and keep the info flowing to create an informed grass-roots electorate that votes consistently.
We need to clean our own house and find a leader that has a more focused vision for the electorate in this State. (or maybe convince Vance to get off his duff!)
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