Former Attorney General Christine Gregoire has been shanghaied by the Mariner Moose.
The expression on the former Attorney General's face looks like the Moose is trying to shake a confession out of her such as: "Admit it -- you only came out ahead because King County had more ballots than voters"
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yes--that moose is a legally registered (absentee)voter; absentee for the rutting season; Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on May 10, 2005 10:44 AM
Budgets, Elections, Tax dollars, Refiling documents, former AG office staff, Campaign Promises, and now the Mariners!
Posted by: Joe on May 10, 2005 10:59 AMSince you are in bed with the special interests honey, what say you build me another stadium?
Posted by: pbj on May 10, 2005 11:06 AMYes, I love it the day she loses in a revote the Moose kicks down the door of the mansion and carries her out just like that!
Precisely...
Since the Mariners are in last place, it looks like the Moose needs to pick up a little work on the side working for an eviction company.
Maybe the Moose can team up with Dog the Bounty Hunter to evict the entire clan. Posted by: Mr. Cynical on May 10, 2005 11:25 AM
Welcome to Dateline. I'm Stone Philips.
In our first story tonight we take a look at what happens when a state's favorite mascot is the one charged with the responsibility of escorting an illegitimate Governor from the Governor's mansion. But first, we talk to another mascot about the bitterness of not being considered the state's favorite mascot. This is the story of Blitz: I want to be the quarterback.
Posted by: Editor on May 10, 2005 01:16 PM"Don't drop me in the fire!!!!"
"I'm not a Zombie"
"I LIVE!!!!"
"I LIVE!!!!" Posted by: soundcrossing on May 10, 2005 01:24 PM
Plus it looks like she has packed on a few pounds in the derriere zone. Word has it the Moose is now repulsed by the thought of cottage cheese!
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on May 10, 2005 01:36 PMThe Mariner Moose commented "She took my wallet too"
Posted by: Son of Liberty on May 10, 2005 01:48 PMAnybody else find it weird that Dori Monson is carrying Christine Gregoire?
Posted by: SnoCo Voter on May 10, 2005 01:55 PMKENNETH P. VOGEL; The News Tribune
Last updated: May 10th, 2005 12:48 PM
If disenfranchised felons had been allowed to vote, they would have swung the 2000 presidential race to Al Gore, according to a national study Republicans are touting in their fight to overturn Christine Gregoire’s victory in last fall’s governor’s race.
The study posits that since racial minorities and the poor – groups that tend to vote for Democrats– make up a disproportionate number of felons, a hypothetical felon voting bloc would be so overwhelmingly Democratic it could swing national and statewide elections.
On average, 74 percent of felons would have voted Democratic in presidential and U.S. Senate elections dating back to 1972, according to the study’s analysis of demographic and voting data.
Of Democratic presidential candidates, the study predicts that Bill Clinton’s successful 1996 re-election campaign would have gotten the highest percentage of felon votes, at 85.4 percent. Jimmy Carter’s failed 1980 re-election would have gotten the lowest, at 66.5 percent.
A state GOP-funded study by Jonathan Katz, a political science professor at the California Institute of Technology, estimates that Gregoire received 66.3 percent of the illegal felon votes.
And a study by Tony Gill, an associate political science professor at the University of Washington, estimates that Gregoire received 60.1 percent of felon votes in King County, Gregoire’s base and home to by far the largest number of illegal felon votes the GOP says were cast.
Compared with the national study, published in 2002 in the American Sociological Review, Gill writes that his study’s estimate “is too conservative, giving Ms. Gregoire the benefit of the doubt. In other words, the rate at which felons vote for a Democratic candidate is likely to be higher than the estimates provided by the precinct-level of analysis here.”
Katz did not return a phone call.
But Nick Handy, elections chief for the secretary of state’s office, the primary defendant in the case, said the national study shouldn’t be admissible.
“It strikes me that generalized testimony about how felons probably would have voted is getting pretty remote,” he said.
Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University who’s not involved in the case, said the national study is based too narrowly on race and is not applicable in Washington, where racial minorities make up a lower percentage of the felon population than in other states.
The study’s “hypothetical felon doesn’t really exist in most places in Washington. We just don’t fit that. We’re not in Georgia,” Donovan said.
Kenneth P. Vogel: 360-754-6093
ken.vogel@thenewstribune.com
Voter fraud could swing close national votes, and must be stopped.
Posted by: Greg M on May 10, 2005 03:32 PMAmazing for a guy with Handy's resume!
And he even was quoted.
How revealing. Posted by: Mr. Cynical on May 10, 2005 03:57 PM
I go by her words and actions. She used an innocuous threat to her benefit and accused talk radio of causing that threat. She went against her campaign promises. She's in the back pocket of unions. She's presiding over the largest tax increase legislative session in WA history. She's generally kept a low profile on specious grounds so she could focus on her aggressive statist policies. She's got very little charisma.
I'm not impressed.
Posted by: Jeff B. on May 10, 2005 04:04 PMoverheard coming from the moose...... Posted by: christmasghost on May 10, 2005 04:13 PM
Who could possibly be No's 48 through 50?
Posted by: Amused by liberals on May 10, 2005 05:18 PMLike most people, Mariner Moose is not amused.
Posted by: Troll on May 10, 2005 05:40 PMYes--but a big fat L&I claim is now pending. Yee ha--living big on the WA disability lotto.
Caption 1: "Hey Rocky--Watch me pull an election out of my hat!....(Grrrrr sound)...Yikes--I better get a new hat!"
Caption 2: Remake of old sci-fi thriller. "The Day the Economy Stood Still!"
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on May 10, 2005 07:32 PMI have a strong hunch that in the outcome of the Election Contest hearing - the joke will be on her and Paul Behrendt will once again be proven to be full of crap as has already been verified...
Posted by: KS on May 10, 2005 07:32 PMGovernor petrified, found Rossi votes in hotdog. Posted by: AK on May 11, 2005 12:50 PM
Voter produces valid U.S. citizen i.d.
All is well.
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on May 12, 2005 03:35 PM