I'll be on Republican Radio tommorow morning at 11:45 am to discuss the day's happenings in Wenatchee, and possibly some other issues of interest. You can listen on 1300 KOL in Seattle, and many other stations in the Northwest. I'd love it if you'd tune in--and you can get a preview of my thoughts on the rulings here. Matt Rosenberg's, also worth reading, are here.
Posted by Timothy Goddard at February 04, 2005 09:15 PM | Email ThisI (will eat thee words, but) suspect the ultimate outcome will be
- The annulment of the election
- the removal of ms gregiore
- a new election in Nov 2005 under the auspices of Lt Gov Owen.
and not the slightest chance of a reversal by the State Supreme Court without the clear betrayal of a partisan bent.
I don't see how that can be bad.
I (will eat thee words, but) suspect the ultimate outcome will be
- The annulment of the election
- the removal of ms gregiore
- a new election in Nov 2005 under the auspices of Lt Gov Owen.
and not the slightest chance of a reversal by the State Supreme Court without the clear betrayal of a partisan bent.
I don't see how that can be bad.
Interesting that she won't say what her position on gay marriage is. She claimed she wasn't for it in the campaign. Now she is mum. I'd say she IS for it because she wants those votes that went to Ruth Bennett the libertarian next time around. The Ds know that alot of their 'LBGT' vote went to Ruth Bennett instead. But if she actually SAYS she's for gay marriage she'll lose points in other ways.
Posted by: Michele S on February 4, 2005 11:43 PMAnd like Kerry, when she was falling behind, she simply aped what Dino was saying, just like Kerry did in the primary. He was going nowhere until he started talking like Howard Dean.
Posted by: Michele S on February 4, 2005 11:45 PM2006 is the next available general election when the legislature meets.
If the GOP does prevail somehow and Gregoire is removed in June of 2005, I see Brad Owen wanting to stay office if he is in the mansion for a year and a half. Thats a long time to be in office and just decide to leave.
In the next two years, one may find another republican running for governor as well as Rossi, we will see.
However, with the court ruling that Rossi needs to show that he would have won had the questionable ballots not been cast, the bar has been raised very far up indeed. Rossi had always hoped that he could prevail by just showing the number of illegal votes was greater than the margin of victory.
Who knows. Maybe the supremes will overturn the decision. I think they are going to have to rule at least once to set the rules of the contest so everyone does not waste their time.
Posted by: Erik on February 5, 2005 12:09 AMWhen weighing credibility, I'll go by past results...remembering that the trolls/naysayers haven't even reached the Mendoza line, average-wise.
Posted by: South County on February 5, 2005 06:49 AMAs I understand it, there is 3 Million coming back to Snohomish County as a part of a settlement with power companies. That money will be divided between businesses, and low income folks with no monies returned to the residential ratepayer.
From the article I read in the Herald, apparently the AG (Christine Gregoire was that person, I believe) appointed a non-profit agency to determine the split and beneficiaries of that money. The agency determined that business was to be allotted a return, on the basis of volume. The rest was to go to low income.
Snohomish PUD says that their hands are tied. They have been told by the agency appointed by Gregoire to do it this way and have no choice.
Christine Gregoire hasn't been heard from as to why she thinks that the average homeowner/residential customer should have any relief. Nor has she explained why she would divert control of monies collected through governmental action to a private agency.
Notice to PUD. Unless I see an improvement in your behavior and customer relations, I am leaning towards disbanding you and going with a corporation that might be more responsive. You might well be advised, on the basis of truth in advertising, to change your name to Public Sector Utility District, Public Sector owned.
Am sure that SnoCoVoter might have a view or two on this as well.
Posted by: Patches Pal on February 5, 2005 08:26 AMhttp://votersunite.org/
Posted by: yhwy on February 5, 2005 08:26 AM