From the Times, the WA Dem chair is up for re-election:

"I am absolutely certain that if anyone were chair other than myself, Christine would not be governor today because we chased the ballots, we fought the battle in the courts, we fought the PR battle," Berendt said. "Most state chairs would have thrown in the towel at some point, and that was something that we never thought of doing, ever."

Ponder his vaunted PR battle-- all verbatim quotes:

"We don't want to have poor little Republicans going to jail. It's sad." (Regarding prosecution of an older man who submitted his dead wife's absentee ballot, singling out the one Republican example amidst dozens of post mortem Dem votes).

"We couldn't have done it without liberals from throughout the country." (Ostensibly about recount donations, though a possible covert reference to the provisional ballots that bypassed screening).

"I think Vance should double-check with the national Bush-Cheney campaign and the Republican National Committee to make sure they didn't move their computers out of the state in the middle of the night to one of those states where they're fighting a little more vigorously." (Taunting, after the Bush-Cheney HQ in Bellevue was ransacked and 3 computers with voter databases were stolen.)

"His last shot at overturning the election faded today." (Meaning Rossi, spoken on Dec. 29th)

"This is a Karl Rove-driven operation in this state... We are not going to let the Republicans steal this election from Chris Gregoire." (After GOP sued King County because election workers were divining voter intent and then "enhancing" ballots so they could be tallied.)

Hat tip: Rich at Spokesman Review's 'Eye on Olympia.'