March 28, 2006
Get out and vote in today's stealth election

The King Conservation District is holding a special election today for Supervisor Position 3. The race is between incumbent Bobbi Lindemulder (a Snoqualmie Valley farmer, endorsed by other rural landowners) and challenger Kevin
Raymond
, a Seattle Democrat activist and former lobbyist for the Seattle Monorail, who is being heavily promoted by the Ron Sims' Seattle Democrat machine to impose Ron Sims extremist environmental agenda on rural landowners.

For some reason, this election is not managed by King County Elections. That means that there's a chance it will be conducted fairly, but only for those who know about it and can show up in person at one of the few polling places. Be sure to vote if you can. As Andy wrote about last year's KCD election, the contest was decided by 66 votes. (polling times, locations and details for today's election here)

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 28, 2006 09:58 AM | Email This
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1. "some chance it will be managed fairly"

Your continual fascination with the errors in King County is amazing. As MIT research has shown, all elections everywhere...have signficant fraud and errors. But you always point to King County as if they are alone.

It really makes your argument easy to discard. Pick and choose shows partisanship...nothing more.

Posted by: LovinUSA on March 28, 2006 10:19 AM
2. Deanron may not run this election, but he'd sure be proud. You don't always have to count the vots to influence the outcome, how about selecting a few ballot locations in some small and out of the way areas, with low populations, say, Enumclaw, Carnation, etc, then throw in a polling locaiton in the heart of Seattle, gee I wonder where the turn out is expected.

Posted by: Kevin on March 28, 2006 10:21 AM
3. Notice the phrase, "protect the salmon". This will be used to entrench the CAO even farther.

Posted by: SouthernRoots on March 28, 2006 10:44 AM
4. yes, please vote. I received a postcard about this in the mail (not from KC, of course).

Posted by: Misty on March 28, 2006 11:08 AM
5. These folks have millions of dollars in thier budget and its trying to be controlled by Ron and his cronies. Please take the time to vote for Bobbie today. Lovin you'd love this election, all you do is stand in line and TELL them you are eligible to vote and you get to vote. I think the Chinese Ballot voters are being disenfranchised by this process since the ballots are only in English. The State and the County should be charged with Civil Rights violations.

Posted by: Just wondering on March 28, 2006 11:10 AM
6. Thanks for this posting Stephan.

It should be noted that KCD has some new funding that libs would like to direct. Bobbi should be voted in because she has great credentials and will serve farmers which is why KCD exists.

Ron, Larry and Dows man would direct this new funding to their environmental pet projects. What this is really about is a new revenue stream that they want to control.

Posted by: eastkingcountyrednecklogger on March 28, 2006 12:04 PM
7. Your continual fascination with the errors in King County is amazing.

He lives here...who can figure?

Posted by: South County on March 28, 2006 12:25 PM
8. I voted in the one down here in Thurston a few weeks back.

Trust me in that you will want to get car loads of friends to go in on this. Down here the Thurston office was not in a county building, well hidden -THEN- when I went in there they were rounding up random people in off of the street to vote.

This position is very much part of the dem machine to control the chunk of property taxes they collect to fund it. They only thing I know the group to be doing is voting to give the money to other parts of the machine.

Posted by: andy on March 28, 2006 12:31 PM
9. LovinUSA:

So elections everywhere are screwed up. OK, so we should just accept it? I think not. Let's fix what we can close to home. Just because nobody else can run clean elections doesn't mean we shouldn't expect it locally.

stick with the status quo... typical lemming.

Posted by: lemming on March 28, 2006 01:02 PM
10. 1 I got an email from KCGOP dated Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:09:49 -0800
2 I emailed them this morning, they responded w/in an hour saying they had just been notified.
3 Nothing came in the US mail
4 Haing the election not start till 11:30am and stoping at 7:00pm is a real hardship, since I have a 4pm appointment on the SnoKing border and was planning to head North afterwards
5 This whole thing smells

Posted by: Green Lake Mark on March 28, 2006 01:22 PM
11. I just voted at 1:50PM in downtown Seattle. About 130 people have voted at this location so far. IT IS VERY likely that most of those 130 will be for the dem.

If they are closing at 7PM, they will most likely get another 150 or so for a total of 280.

Would someone please report how many have voted at the other locations?

Just plan on getting 350 at each of the other 3 sites to make up for these Seattle numbers.

Posted by: Gregg on March 28, 2006 02:34 PM
12. You know the KCCD fund all of the watershed Districts paying full time KC employees for half of their time. In essence KC gets more FTE's on their staff by controlling how this KCCD money is spent. The funding from KCCD almost wasn't approved this year because Ron wanted to pay off his friends in certain watersheds and not equally divide the Salmon recovery money. Finally after some arm twisting the new "allocation formula" for KCCD money was approved for one year only. That is why the new DOUBLING of your assesment to $10.00 a year for every parcel became so important. We as KC taxpayers are paying for Rons empire to expand under the false mantle of Salmon Recovery. Yes they do use the money for arts projects too incase you were wondering.

Posted by: smokie on March 28, 2006 03:27 PM
13. I got this today from a King County staffer:

"This is not a "King County Election" - it is a King Conservation District election. If you are registered to vote in King County you are allowed to vote. Generally fewer than 500 people vote, so every vote is very important. This group has jurisdiction (somewhat shared with the county council) on spending the $10 per parcel assessment/tax collected in King County - so the spending of millions of dollars will be impacted by this election."

He also sent me the letter from Ron Sims and Larry Phillips endorsing their leftist candidate, while at the same time he endorsed the incumbant and stated both he and his boss would be voting today for her.

Isn't it amazing how an election can occur with no notice on the county's website, or even on the King Conservation District's website? You'd almost get the impression that they don't want uninvolved voters to participate?

This is just another sweet example of democracy in King County, where the result from several hundred votes in a county of a million voters will result in elected officials with the authority to spend millions of taxpayer dollars a year, and more than likely, send most of it to friends of Ron.

Posted by: MJC on March 28, 2006 04:25 PM
14. I received an email about this election too - but was under the impression that it was only for a
certain area...not mine...

If everyone in King County was allowed to vote in this election and there was no proper notification..there should be a revote. There are laws in place concerning proper notifications of elections.

Posted by: Deborah on March 28, 2006 05:28 PM
15. Anyone registered King County voter can vote in this election. Please try to get to one of the polls if you can and vote for Bobbi.

Posted by: Caroline on March 28, 2006 05:57 PM
16. Caroline - Done and done!

Posted by: alphabet soup on March 28, 2006 07:16 PM
17. I voted down at the Carnation polling place and was surprised to see more than a couple people lined up to vote. They told me that this morning they had some 70 people lined up to vote! They seemed to be trying hard to verify that people were in the registered voter database before casting a ballot. There seemed to be none of this corny "vote no matter whether you're legally able to or not" silliness.

Posted by: Misty on March 28, 2006 10:29 PM
18. I voted at the Renton location. They required a WA-issued photo ID and queried some program that looked akin to a spreadsheet. When they couldn't find me right away they asked for my voter reg card. I thanked them profusely for doing this. As I signed the sign-in sheet I noticed the person voting before me was none other than state rep Zachary Hudgins (D-11th) so I can at least say that my vote cancelled out the vote of someone who votes (in the legislature at least) as a lock-step Dem.

Posted by: Speed_King on March 29, 2006 07:21 AM
19. Many thanks to all who voted yesterday. The results are:

Bobbi Lindemulder - 518
Kevin Raymond - 316

Posted by: Jimbo on March 29, 2006 10:09 AM
20. I voted at the Renton site (kind of hard to find) and they never asked for a photo ID. I just showed them my voter registration card. Nobody else was voting at aroung 4:00 p.m.

Posted by: RBW on March 29, 2006 10:12 AM
21. Thanks for the update Jimbo! Hooray for Bobbi!

Posted by: Misty on March 29, 2006 10:39 AM
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