My father lives in Jerusalem and sends e-mail dispatches about current events in Israel to his friends-and-family list. As it turns out, one of my dad's recent e-mails induced a Dumb e-mail from an elected official
 | Rep. Sam Hunt received dad's e-mail, presumably forwarded by a mutual friend in Olympia. Yesterday Hunt wrote back to my dad with this one-liner: |
So this must be the father of the right wing nut who rails against all logical ideas in Puget Sound. The man you prepared for his Bar Mitzvah...Rep. Hunt isn't exactly one of my favorite legislators, but what kind of elected official responds to his critics by e-mailing complaints to their parents? And what does my Bar Mitzvah, which I celebrated in 1976, have to do with any of this? Sheesh.
UPDATE: Okay, here's what happened. Hunt sent this e-mail to my father by accident. He meant to send it to their mutual friend, who was in fact involved in my Bar Mitzvah education 30 years ago. Hunt may have sponsored a bunch of silly legislation and might be a careless user of e-mail, but let's not get carried away in the comments with accusations of anti-Semitism. I see no indication that that applies here.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 01, 2005 03:34 PM | Email ThisPerhaps he can explain. He should certainly be required to try.
Posted by: ScottM on August 1, 2005 06:18 PMRight wing nut? Just because you want fair elections and have a political opinion that is to the right of socialism? Or, is it because you are against the monorail circus ride that was doomed from day one and turned out to be an $11 billion money pit?
Want to see more of how these people think?
Go check out Patty Murray's secret "Community Meeting" at Bellevue City Hall, Wednesday, August 3, from 1:15 to 2:15.
More on Murray's secret meeting here.
At this secret "Community Meeting" you will see Seattle establishment feminist organizations play the gender-politics game in order to keep the federal pork coming.
Posted by: BananaLand (aka Iguana) on August 1, 2005 06:23 PMOne that thinks he cannot be beaten. One that is so arrognant that soon he will be thrown out of office.
Posted by: Ron A. on August 1, 2005 06:39 PMStefan,
To reply to a forwarded email from your father - and to say such offensive things about you and your fathers preparation of your Bar Mitzvah - Mr. Hunt has indeed revealed himself to be anti-Semite and a man who SHOULD NOT be working in any public capacity!
I'm sending a copy of this out to be reviewed by several Jewish organizations in western Washington......It's time the Jewish community saw the creepy liberal left for what they truly are!
Posted by: Deborah on August 1, 2005 07:46 PM----------------
"Saw this posting regarding a recent email you sent.
"So this must be the father of the right wing nut who rails against all logical ideas in Puget Sound. The man you prepared for his Bar Mitzvah... "
Another stupid comment from a left wing wacko. It would be better to write nothing that display your ignorance.
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You don't think he would so dumb as to reply do you?
Ken
Posted by: katomar on August 1, 2005 08:47 PM
Hunt is merely a useless, rude, intolerant, hate-filled moron.
But based on what was in your original post, the accusation of anti-Semitism was perfectly reasonable. No one got "carried away."
Posted by: ScottM on August 1, 2005 08:52 PMThe arrogance of these two and many others on the left is amazing to me. I am so glad I have 2 solid conservative Reps and one solide conservatice senator in the 39th.
Send an email to them and if you have a differing opinion, you get a phone call, not an insult. Posted by: Jim L on August 1, 2005 08:57 PM
Deep down he's most likely very jealous of your success, he and the rest of the dems are on borrowed time.
BTW - Your father lives in a very beautiful city, J'lem is wonderful, been to Israel three times...my home away from home! :o) Ray
Posted by: Raylene on August 1, 2005 09:01 PMUnless he is Jewish himself (and even then...)- you and your father have every right to be offended and concerned!
(God works in mysterious ways! heh! Just think of the odds of Hunt *accidently* sending THAT email to the father of that "right wing nut" from Puget Sound!)
Posted by: cc on August 1, 2005 09:08 PM
Nice too know that your father was informed that he raised a "RIGHT WING NUT" who rails again "Logical Ideas". I certainly hope your father "straighten's him out" on a few items.
All Bullsheet aside, it was still rude, and not PC for a person in "his position" (I am not even going with the word his "Capacity") I would hope an email of apology will reach your fathers inbox shortly.
He needs some simple Email Tutoring too!!!
Posted by: Chris on August 1, 2005 09:15 PMI have to say it "what goes around comes around" and I hope that it’s close to coming around.
Smiling, arrogant buffoons sitting in a wood-paneled gentleman's club sipping sherry. Outside, the common folk are clamoring and banging on the windows, warning of the wildfires raging nearby outside. The fires are the state of our state and elections. With a good wind, we can only hope the November fires will consume the Incumbent Club.
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on August 1, 2005 09:43 PMFrom: "Hunt, Rep. Sam"
Subject: RE: Email to Sharkansky's father
Date: August 1, 2005 8:28:52 PM PDT
To: Sxxxxxx Dxxxxx
No, the person I sent it to happens to be Sepfan's Bar Mitzvah sponsor and a mutual friend of both of us. Don't
read things into stuff you don't know about!
From: Sxxxxxx Dxxxxx [mailto:stevedunlap@mac.com]
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:24 PM
To: Hunt, Rep. Sam
Subject: RE: Email to Sharkansky's father
Nice one liner sammy boy. What are ya an anti semite? You look like the nut.
By the Way...
GOD BLESS AMERICA! and here's to legal elections in WA which I hope puts you out on your ass.
Sxxxxxx Dxxxxx
XXXX Xxxxxxxx Xxx #XX
Xxxxxx, WA XXXXX
CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE
See, all just a misunderstanding Stefan
Posted by: Steve on August 1, 2005 10:01 PMAnd that's MISTER "Sepfan" to you Sam Hunt.
Posted by: cc on August 1, 2005 10:16 PM
They are to stupid to hold a real job. They would forget to flip the burger, could figure out which side of the broom is up, don't know a mop needs a bucket and water.
What even worse is we keep reelecting these north ends of south bound mules to office.
Which begs the question who are the real dummies?
Sigh.....
Those who can do, those who can't teach, those who don't know what we're talking about run for office.
Anyway next election just remember no incumbent gets re-elected.
Posted by: JCM on August 1, 2005 10:28 PMSeptember 1983 + one day: Howard Cosell... I really didn't mean it.
September 1983 + two days: end of Cosell's career.
Carelessness is no excuse for bigotry and hatred, but it makes a darn convenient cover for the mushy-minded folks that walk that particular path.
If I would have sent that e-mail to ANYONE I know personally, I would fully expect to have my ass handed to me both figuratively and literally. Anti-semitism is a very dark, deadly cloud that rises on a horizon one least expects... and one must always be wary and alert.
This speaks to the earlier post on Moeller in many ways... how can one trust a public official with no common sense- or any appreciable communication skills?
Egads... what a mighmarish joke Washington has become. May God have mercy on us all.
Posted by: Dan on August 1, 2005 10:45 PMIn the end...if Stefan is okay with it then so am I.
Posted by: Mark D on August 1, 2005 10:55 PMBut seriously, I think what Hunt MEANT to write was THIS: So this must be the father of the right wing blogger who rails against all ILLOGICAL ideas in Puget Sound.
Yeah, I think THAT'S what he meant to write....
Posted by: Michele on August 1, 2005 11:04 PMWhether it be e-mail, morse code or carrier pigeon, someone in such a position should have a basic grasp of HOW TO COMMUNICATE.
Sorry, gang... this particular gaffe is inexcusable and I smell a resignation in the near future. Fry it, cook it, broil it, smoke it, lay it out in the sun and run over it multiple times with your car, but this still reeks of anti-Semitism. Period.
Posted by: Dan on August 1, 2005 11:05 PMI don't see a special place to put this, so I'll put it here. In this thread, and in quite a few threads I keep hearing the threats "oh just wait, the dems are in trouble come next election!". What on earth prompts this thought??
The dems have proven even in a court of "law" that they can successfully violate law, and steal elections by casting many illegal votes. Considering they have been villified in court, what makes ANYONE think that this won't get even worse next election? Why would they stop? Why would anything change? In fact, why SHOULD anything change?
They have been handed a blank voting card and told to submit as many as they wish and won't suffer any consequences. So, for anyone who thinks next election will be any different than the last one, I don't understand why you think that way.
Thanks!
Greg
But ignoring those things, this is still a really dumb e-mail. Just which "logical" ideas has Stefan railed against?
Monorail boondoggles that cost billions and are so horribly mismanaged that even their leftie supporters are bailing on them?
Vote-by-mail, following an election that demonstrated in court that they can't keep track of the mail-in ballots they have NOW?
Ron Sims' latest reading from his Communist Idea Of The Week Desk Calendar?
Toothless voting "reform" that leaves gaping holes, and in fact codifies them?
Those that think Stefan is out of the "mainstream" might want to check the current around themselves a bit; I think they might find they've gotten sucked out into some pretty deep water off the left coast.
Rep. Hunt's email is incredibly offensive.
Imagine a GOP legislator, receiving a forwarded email from a man helping AIDS patients in Uganda. Imagine this man in Uganda is the father of a local Puget Sound black activist.
What if the GOP legislator wrote:
So this must be the father of the left wing nut who insists that we must pay him not to have a job, in the form of welfare. The man you taught how to rap . . .
In my silly statement here and in Rep. Hunt's email, a hatred for opposing viewpoints is displayed, but worse, the fact that racial references are made indicates the presence of at least subconscious racial thinking.
Posted by: ARS on August 2, 2005 08:10 AMHow can you possibly lose an election when:
1) You can print your own ballots
2) The courts allow that you can have more votes than voters
3) That you can have recounts, if your first guess on how many vote to manufacture is off and
4) the courts are fine with these practices?
I don't see how "getting out the vote" is significant when the opposition can create their votes out of whole cloth.
You can't get election reform without getting in legislators who will support it. You can't get the legislators in without the election reform.
Truly a Catch-22.
alaric
Posted by: alaric on August 2, 2005 08:10 AMMy guess is that the person who prepared you for your Bar Mitzvah is quite proud of the fact.
Posted by: barchester on August 2, 2005 08:46 AMif railing against the current federal administration is ok (which you have a right to)--people who influence our lives--then why is railing against the current state admin. not as relevant? ANY politician should be judged on his/her actions and statements; no exceptions; both sides slip up--it's our duty to monitor both sides & hold them to their actions; spin goes both ways; sift through it or be swept away in the comfy current; blindly defending any political party is like that warm sensation you feel in the pool--it's not the pool heater--
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on August 2, 2005 10:57 AMWho else, but a nut, would devote so much of their time exposing the corruption and fraud in state and local goverment?
Message to the Democrats - Be careful, the nuts from Sound Politics are watching you.
Posted by: PW on August 2, 2005 01:04 PM