King County Elections is poised to conduct a county-wide recount in the Sheriff's primary race.
As of yesterday, the vote count was:
Sue Rahr 171,659
Jim Fuda 43,920
Greg Schmidt 43,988
Write-in 572
The recount would be done solely to determine whether Schmidt or Fuda earns the right to advance to the general election so he can have his ass handed to him by Sheriff Rahr. It doesn't strike me that there's enough at stake here to put the system through the stress of a recount. I'd rather see both the elections officials and citizen observers focus on preparations for the general election. On the other hand, a recount would probably expose more of the crap in the elections system that still doesn't work very well.
Dean Logan has asked both major parties to provide recount observers. The county GOP is seeking 5 observers for the weekend and 60 for next week. Call (425) 990-0404 if you're interested in observing the recount. Observers are paid $12 per hour.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 29, 2005 09:28 AM | Email ThisCan someone explain this to me? I went to the link provided by stefan, showing the breakdown, and also total votes cast.
Total votes cast = 291,373
Total votes for all Canidates listed = 260,139
Does this mean that 31,234 ballots were rejected, tossed, or no vote for sherrif was indicated? The 31,234 represents 10.7% of votes cast were not included for some reason or another.
Posted by: Chris on September 29, 2005 10:09 AMThe major parties get involved in watching recounts (and observing the election process in general) because that's the way the rules are written. Besides, where are Fuda and Schmidt going to each get 60 observers?
Posted by: Legast on September 29, 2005 10:30 AMSchmidt is highly unpopular with the "establishment" of King County politics. He has exposed the fact that so many issues - family court, domestic violence laws - have been set up and run by radical feminists that attack men, fathers, and families.
He's a smart guy and an honest guy. He is extremely articulate and obviously very caring.
Sue Rahr is anything but those qualities. Did you see her video statement? Hardly inspiring; a little scary actually.
She bought into KC feminist propaganda completely. Her credentials primarily revolve around learning feminist ideology. She has no respect of the rank and file. Thus, she is a favorite of the KC political establishment.
They want to keep Schmidt out of the race, because it scares them that he would get as much of the vote as he did and then move on to the general election. It especially scares them that when you put Schmidt next to Rahr, she looks like a complete moron.
So, they will be trying to find the votes to put Fuda ahead of Schmidt. You want to see another example of KC elections corruption in action? Then, watch this recount.
Posted by: BananaLand (aka Iguana) on September 29, 2005 11:00 AMSchmidt 2
Appointed Lacky 0
Greg's work is totally counter to the way the money flows in KC and in Wa. Since VAWA pork gravy $ only flows to your county if you KEEP with the trend that men are either convicted wife beaters or their wives are too afraid to report them, officers actually arresting women on DV calls might mean a shortage of cash in the dept.
Or worse, the next time the state wants the KC Sheriff to be their personal debtors prison bill collector for CSE and Greg decides that busting meth labs is a little more important, there might be (gasp) ... a shut off of funds to the dept.
Posted by: Andy on September 29, 2005 02:51 PMSchmidt also is coming from the Seattle Police department in a mid-level position rather than a Sheriff's organization. I question his leadership abilities.
It would be nice to have more qualified candidates... each one of them have a black mark on their records.
Posted by: Skeptic on September 29, 2005 04:09 PMAs far as black marks, let us not forget Rahr was suspended for a day for repeatedly violating email policies (while she was Chief in Shoreline, yet). Good example there, Chief Sue. And I guess in blue gun thugdom, losing your badge and ID is frowned upon. She left hers in a drug informants car, when she took it out of her purse on a drug buy. No guy would take their purse to a drug buy, and I doubt most wimmin' druggies would either. Said ID and badge went to New Mexico with the informant.
Oh, yeah, she wrecked a cop car too, and failed to report it. In fact, the only one WITHOUT professional disciplinary action against them is Schmidt.
But, he is not establishment, and makes the fans of status quo really nervious, because he is not a pol.
Posted by: The Geezer on September 29, 2005 09:51 PM