Ron Sims re-election strategy is now becoming apparent.
The centerpiece is to turn the county elections office into a de facto subsidiary of the re-election campaign organization.
Specifically, that entails putting the non-team player (= honest) employees on administrative leave, and filling their chairs with Sims loyalists from other agencies who are really good at papering over their incompetence and malfeasance if nothing else. It also entails stonewalling citizens on public records requests. I'm not the only one who is being stonewalled. The King County Republican Party sent a records request to Dean Logan on July 20th asking for information on the thousands of multiply registered voters, a number of whom are known to have voted more than once and never been prosecuted. Logan replied on August 2nd, promising to release most if not all of the documents within 10 days and to provide an estimated delivery date for the remaining documents by August 11th. Guess what? None of the requested documents have been produced, nor has the delivery date for the other documents been offered. After all, why should Ron Sims undermine his own re-election campaign by releasing any evidence of malfeasance and incompetence in his own agencies when there's a team of lawyers on the public payroll at the Prosecutor's Office who will abet his evasion of the Public Disclosure Act at no cost to Sims.
The county might as well change the name of the King County Records, Elections and Licensing Services Division to the King County Ron Sims Re-election Services Division.
(Contest: who will be the first to find all of the changes between the spoof web page and the real one?)
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 17, 2005 04:57 PM | Email ThisWhich is why I don't often tune into the P-U or Seattle un-Times - they no longer provide this community service.
Posted by: FreeRangeAuthor on August 17, 2005 05:29 PMMakes perfect sense to me.
Posted by: JCM on August 17, 2005 07:54 PMThat's a trick question right? Because they look exactly the same to me!!
Posted by: Don in Yakima on August 17, 2005 08:00 PMSome good news for the state tho. I heard today, Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney, Steve Tucker, is going to challenge the voter registrations of 79 registered voters in Spokane who are convicted felons.
It's a start.
Posted by: cc on August 17, 2005 08:21 PMFWIW
Keep up the good work. It is appreciated.
Regards,
Dan
Maybe you should be working for the County in their web development office. (and don't take the come on too personal -- after all he doesn't even know how to spell your name, even though it's at the top of the page...)
Posted by: markf on August 17, 2005 08:52 PMHow about me? I live in a nice house. Am I some kind of sleeze cause I work hard, but take time to read blogs to understand what the MSM is not telling us?
What do you say to Joel Connelly? He's a big fat ass with a big house too. Do think he should stop doing what he's doing? Is reading his work a validation? Or is it just a way to get our rocks off laughing at such drivel.
come on, you know that our election system is corrupt. I was upset about the last election results, because our process is screwed up. If you are a citizen and if you really have a job, other than pan-handling/bumvertising, you'd be upset too. You'd also want to know why your "elected" officials are not correcting the flawed system. Why are they covering up for incompetence? Why are they lying? Why are they moving to socialism? These are questions you should be asking yourself and others.
Then again, hit the pipe and hang out with your buds in Fremont or Capital Hill, believing that you deserve to have a nice house on Green Lake too.
Posted by: Dengle on August 17, 2005 09:39 PMRon Sims is using his failed history of election reforms and his *new and not improved at all* hand picked turnaround team as his platform for his campaign this fall!
He is actually giving the public the perception of "I know, with regard to elections, I have not been on the ball. But this time - I will demand that it all be fixed. I am the king.....oops..OK..Maybe not ALL be fixed..but I want the public's perception to be that I'm really...REALLY going to do something this time....(Even though I won't - because to fix the election would mean to lose outright..and now that I'm so good at fraud..it would be a pity to simply stop...So..I will have my buddy Mr. Triplett...announce scathing new charges against some poor employees in the election department..and the public will percieve that I've finally done somehing..just before the election.......I'm brilliant!")
Mr. Sims is such an idiot if he believes his 11th hour election bandaids are going to turn public opinion.....
Posted by: Deborah on August 17, 2005 09:41 PMObviously you don't know how to code a web page. Sharks spoof took him 2 minutes on a bad day. Look at the KCE page save the page with all the graphics, view source, copy, past into your html editor of choice, make a couple quick edits viola! Spoof complete.
I am like Dongle, live in a decent house but find the time to read and educate myself on the issues.
Posted by: JCM on August 17, 2005 10:01 PMOh, and Howard DEAN (think DEAN WITTER) grew up with live-in household help in an 'old-money', upper-class family. I'm sure you just HATE that, too????? Can't wait to hear....since it bothers you so much.....so who DID you vote for in '04?????
Posted by: Realist on August 17, 2005 10:06 PMStefan contributes more to the truth about the sleazy facts of the king county gang then the trolls can deal with. Now they try to attack him over the value of his house. Where were the trolls when the stories of Logan’s wages shocked both the D's and R's. Makes you wonder what these guy's will be when they get big.
What a wonderfully cogent and revealing post. Looks to me like Sims took this strategy right out of the "Bush the lesser playbook" since he used exactly the same tactics and it worked.
Posted by: Unkl Witz on August 17, 2005 11:02 PMPosted by TedR....(aka coffeemonkey100@hotmail.com)
" Stefan, as a sympathetic reader of this blog I was surprised to read your Ad Hominem attack on Larry Phillips. Sheesh, who he resembles has nothing to do with who he is. He may have problems, I don't doubt that, but that kind of personal attack does nothing for your argument and really only stoops to the level commonly seen on the other side."
Then this one from this post:
Posted by Dan (with a url as his email to strait-talk.com)
"Stefan, you know I've been here a long time, and have been very respectful. My advice to you? Dump the spoof page. It's beneath you and detracts from your message. It also invites all sorts of unnecessary problems. FWIW
Keep up the good work. It is appreciated.
Regards,
Dan"
The trolls are actually trying to shame Stefan for his sense of humor and his unwaivering committment to exposing the problems with Ron Sims and King County!
Interesting.....This tactic is like a last ditch effort! If this is all they've got......they are soooo lost..
TedR? Dan?
We don't know you..and I'm pretty sure Stefan doesn't know you...so enough with the attempted familiarity on the blog. You don't belong here...you are trolls.
Change yet another script...
Posted by: Deborah on August 17, 2005 11:43 PMYour abundance of ignorance never ceases to astound me.
Which election directors did GWB appointed in areas where there were voting problems?
Since you don't bother with trivial matters like research, facts or truth I let you skip the hard part, reading about it, and give you the answer.
None.
Are you talking about the '04 election? In '04 the margin was unquestionable. Only frothing moonbats talk about the '04 election. Yes, even in Ohio, Kerry really did lose (big).
Are you talking about '00 in Florida? If you are then you are worse off than I thought.
For you lesson of the day, if you are even capable of learning. The problems in Florida occurred in counties controlled by the DEMOCRATparty. Furthering you lesson of the day, which recount did Gore win? I can point to seven, one of which was done by the NY Times (no friend of GWB) all of which showed Gore LOST. Don't bring up Harris, she was Florida's Sam Reed, she just certified the election according to law, she had nothing to do with the counting.
In the areas of the country identified as having serious vote fraud problems, King Co. being on the list how many are controlled by Republicans? To keep it simple for you the same answer as before.
None.
To make if even simpler for you.
It is Democrats who can't win at the ballot box, and resort to fraud.
Posted by: JCM on August 18, 2005 05:47 AMI like the "candidate information tab" which re-directs you to RonSims.com!
/peb
Posted by: Patrick E. Bell on August 18, 2005 06:47 AMI'm wondering why we haven't used fingerprinting to validate voter ID's on ballots. Expensive technology, sure... but it's got to cost less than a Monorail.
Posted by: Snohomey on August 18, 2005 08:01 AMNot according to the Bridges/Sims/Logan/Reed/Handy interpretation of Washington State Election Law.
The latest rulings allow you to vote wherever you want and to vote often with impunity.
Comrad Triplett is a scary dude.
What inside investigation? Months ago, employees on the witness stand admitted to false documentation. More red herrings, stinky diapers, and shell games.
All this retoric about transparency is beyond old, when they clearly have no intention of making it happen. Can't be transparent when you have so much to hide.
Posted by: dl on August 18, 2005 10:19 AMYou have got to have the right dictionary.
I say we start picketing Norm Maleng and Rob McKenna's office. It is only because these leftist will not do their job that such corruption can continue. We need to concentrate all of our power on them, since we will never be able to remove Sims from office.
Posted by: The Dude on August 18, 2005 11:31 AMUntil now, that is.
But I still don't understand how you came to that conclusion from my post, nor will I ever, I guess.
Best...
Dan
The tone you used in your post to Stefan (that I quoted above) was very condescending and very much like those posted by the SP trolls.
I am sorry - I mistakenly lumped you with them!
I believe that you are not a troll.
I am sorry.