A big thank you to everyone who hit the tip jar in the past few days! All of us here are honored by your support and appreciation. I'm working my way through the list and sending personal thank you notes to everybody who contributed.
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The Gig Harbor Republican Women's Club gave me a warm welcome as their luncheon speaker yesterday. And thanks for the great cookbook of Republican recipes from the Northwest!
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The other speaker in Gig Harbor yesterday was former Rep. Tom Huff, now a member of the Rossi transition team. He listed 3 things we can all do to support the election contest and revote effort:
1) The lawsuit is expensive. Please contribute to the state GOP to help pay for it.
2) Sign the Re-vote petition at RevoteWA.com if you haven't already done so. In either case, encourage others to sign.
3) Write letters to the editor of your local newspapers expressing support for a revote.
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Sound Politics reader (and contributing tipster!) Ned Moser saw his letter published in the P-I yesterday. Reader Mike Costello had his letter published in the King County Journal yesterday, but he also mentions that they silently redacted his lead sentence, which should have read "Christine Gregoire may be governor, but like a thief that breaks into a home and holds the family hostage, it's only a matter of time before the law will act and reward her for her dishonesty."
Write your local newspaper in support of a revote and let us know if your letter is published.
UPDATE: Reader and frequent comment poster Michele Sackman reminds us that her letter was published in the Seattle Times on Tuesday!
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Seattle's Fox affiliate KCPQ-TV "Q-13" is doing a special news report on the governor's race and why so many people feel that it hasn't been settled properly. Tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 21 at 10:35pm, channel 13. They aired a short version on last night's local news. I make a brief but exciting appearance, as does a screen shot of the blog!
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REMINDER: Rossi advisor and spokeswoman Mary Lane will be our guest speaker at Monday's dinner meeting of the Downtown Seattle Republican Club. Please RSVP today if you wish to attend. (all details here)
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at January 20, 2005 10:41 AM | Email ThisStefan (& all SP'ers), your efforts are MORE than THANKS ENOUGH.
My vote (no pun intended), is you skip the personal thank-you notes and continue your focus on having this election tossed out!
Besides, our thanks go out to you, and the tip jar is just a little way for us to express those thanks. No need wasting time with on of those goofy "Thank you", "No, thank you", "Noooo, Thank you", "No, thank YOU", "NO, THANK YOOOOU" dialogs. ;-)
Posted by: EricR on January 20, 2005 11:04 AMI second the motion, just keep focused on the most important task at hand!!!!
Posted by: chuck45 on January 20, 2005 01:23 PMI have read the Op-ed letters submitted to the Seattle Times and King County Journal from Ned, Mike and Michele! They were great! Direct - straight to the point - impossible to deny! Good job!
I was talking with siblings today..(cough...some of my siblings lean more toward the left...Yes - we all have some black sheep...) I was pleasantly shocked to hear that they are greatly in favor of a revote!! And the arguments they presented were identical to ours! I couldn't believe it! I have not even brought the subject up with them - thinking it would lead to a less than positive family debate..... If THEY want a revote.....the Dem Machine is truly broken!
One more item.... There was a correction printed in the Seattle Times today on the Military Ballot/Snohomish County mailing error...
Not sure it puts anything to rest for me...but I thought the correction deserved notice...