June 26, 2006
Yet another limousine liberal nanny-stater who advocates fuel savings and physical activity for other people
Mrs. Gregoire1, June 22
"The Western states are leading the way to reduce toxic emissions and address global warming,"
Mrs. Gregoire,
June 24:
while she occasionally walks, Gregoire is driven to work "a vast majority of the time," said spokesman Lars Erickson ... Gregoire's office wouldn't comment on the distance from the mansion to her office on the second floor of the Capitol, but an Associated Press reporter of comparable size traveled it in less than 300 paces.
The state patrol cites "security concerns" but former Governor Gary Locke is quoted saying "he walked to the Capitol "rain or shine."" I don't often refer to Mrs. Gregoire as "Queen Christine", but in this case the moniker seems particularly apt.
1 January 20, 2006:
The overall health and fitness of Washington citizens, including state employees and retirees, is important to the state’s productivity, collective health, and quality of life. Unfortunately, we continue to witness national and state trends that demonstrate a significant decline in healthy lifestyles. These include decreased physical activity ...
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 26, 2006
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1. Having a chauffeur makes her feel important. Just like Nickels.
As long as the rest of us are suffering in traffic while taxpayer dollars are wasted on mass transit and HOV lanes, the limousine liberals are happy.
2. Shark,
Get back on the bus, sit down, shut up, with the rest little people. Oh! and hand over your wallet.
Her Royal Highness has important work to do, to important to be bothered by trivial tasks like walking to work.
If you persist we will send you to Bus Camp.
Sincerely the Central Committe for Transportation Planning.
3. Security concerns, eh? Must be those "talk show radios".
4. I have done the Christmas walk in Olympia many times and the Governor's Mansion is essentially less than 100 yards from the State Capitol
If Gary Locke "walked to the Capitol 'rain or shine'", I do not understand what's changed with the current individual
Gregoire being driven to work "a vast majority of the time" is absurd
5. I'm tellin ya...
Maybe we should all chip in to buy her one of those power mobility scooters so her tender little tootsies never have to touch common ground sullied by 'the little people'.... Model #0210 is fairly cheap and it's available in a very royal purple befitting an illegitimate queen... and to top it all off: ... "Occasionaly we have in stock "Demonstrator Models" at greatly reduced prices"!
We can get her a matching leash so she can run a yappy little 'guard' dog along side her...
6. If security has become such a major concern since Locke, WATF is she doing handing out all these perks to unions etc. with our money instead of police? Why has security got so dismal since she took over? Or doesn't it matter if the little people aren't safe, as long as the ruling elite of the politburo are?
7. she cites many death threats, none of which have panned out to verified as anything but a PR boost by her campaign.
Perhaps in the next parade she can ride in the pope mobile? That way the elderly gent can still drive.
8. Ms. Fraudoire doesn't want the world to know that she will melt if she comes into contact with water. The Muchkins may just decide to hose her down and then start dancing in the streets.
On a more serious side, I am getting really irritated with the communist thinking of "it's for your own good" while they live high on the hog. That's why they like a controlled press--so the little people don't find out what big hypocrites the party leaders are. Does any one except the moonbats really think Castro lives like the common man he oppresses?
9. have a bunch of interns or her election volunteers act a human shields; problem solved; or, she can pack a piece and wear Kevlar undies; we can hire one of those celebrity look-alikes and have that person zip around as a decoy;
10. Perhaps Mrs. Christine (Chris?) Brezhnev needs something like this: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/4546/frames.html
A nice Zil limosine from the early Andropov era. I think she would like it. Of course, her lack of walking could be a physical problem, gout perhaps?
11. when i worked in olympia gov. locke was driven from his mansion to his office by state patrol every day.
12. when i worked in olympia gov. locke was driven from his mansion to his office by state patrol every day. -Posted by shawn at June 26, 2006 01:37 PM
"LOCKE LIED???", she asked with shock and incredulity registering in her eyes...
Surely you jest!
13. BREAKING NEWS! Queenie got a new dog! Named it "Trooper." Named in homage of the WSP troopers who have to walk it and scoop up after it.
"Gregoire and her husband, Mike, showed off the 4-pound, 8-week-old puppy, who shivered in the glare of television lights." Is that Mike who shivered in the glare of the lights?
14. when i worked in olympia gov. locke was driven from his mansion to his office by state patrol every day.
No. He wasn't.
I am no fan of Gary Locke but I passed him numerous times walking between the Gov's Mansion and the Legislative Building. There's enough wrong with the current situation without resorting to making up stuff.
15. why didn't we get to vote on the dog's name like the state quarter? call it Pepe in honor of the illegal aliens? how about Voter? does the dog get a limo or bodyguard? who walks it---another staffing position at $85k?
16. Jimmie-howya-doin - All I want to know is where it is registered to vote!
17. Colossal waste of taxpayer money & time. Who does she think she is? The Queen of England, for heaven's sake?
I have not heard of one verifiable threat. I think the WSP is simply pandering to her kooky fears.
Isn't that the reason we have a Lt. Governor?
18. "Who does she think she is..the Queen of England?".....As I recall from a TV special on the Queen, she drives her own SUV around. Case in point....real queens know how to act as real people!
19. decoys!...and we can replace the state patrol with gay friendly jedi knights.
20. Maybe Queen Christine is driven back and forth between “her” Mansion and her office is... all of those dangerous right wing forest creatures Bald Eagles, American Opossum and the North American Red Fox that tormented her last little dog and the physiological trauma is just too much for any victim of such harassment to bare!!!
21. Yah, I think she should follow Gary Locke's example and save us poor taxpayers the fuel costs! fer cryin' out loud....
22. I find the left to be an endless source of entertainment. I'd love to see all these aging commies practice what they preach. Give up driving, flying, and using electricity and go back to living in communes. That silly leftist movement in the '70's didn't last long. The commies quickly discovered that living as if it were 1850 was pure misery. You'd think they would have learned something. Wonder how many of our current democratic politicians used to live in those collectives?
Bill Cruchon
23. Holy something, I actually agree with Stefan. Gregoire should walk to work. I understand the need for security, but it's literally across the street.
24. That being said, you could say the same thing about leaders (Bush, Cheney, most R congressfolks) who praise and deploy the military, yet avioded service like it was the plague.
Public officials are a different bread. If we were to require everyone to live as they preached, we would not have the great leaders of our day. both R's and D's. Sad, but true. Hypocracy is a non-partisan issue.
25. "Hypocracy is a non-partisan issue."
Apparently neither is Bush Derangement Syndrome, but some seem to have it to a debilitating degree.
Sad (but funny at the same time! ;'}
26. Could we please put Clinton on the list of those who pulled strings to avoid ANY military service. Libs have such short memories...or they know nothing about history
27. jimg is correct. I worked at the legislature during both of Locke's terms, and saw him walking between the governor's mansion and the Legislative Building (the State Capitol) all the time. Ditto Mike Lowry. It's just down some steps, across a small driveway, and you're in. There is a State Patrol station at the top of the steps, so I fail to see why "security concerns" require she be driven three or four times the distance it takes to walk to the building. Any one of those officers could simply accompany her if need be.
28. Speaking of Lowry, I used to see him in downtown walking around with no one following around. Simply put, he wasn't worried about security nor did the state patrol have security detail following Lowry around. I wonder what changed since Lowry's days that made Gregoire security risk?
29. "I wonder what changed since Lowry's days that made Gregoire security risk?"
Well it's much the same phenomena as seen in any other Banana Republic, those that usurp power are a little more at risk than those that were actually elected.
30. More do as I say, not as I do.
Speaking of that, Warren Buffett is a big proponent of the estate tax, but in giving his entire fortune to charity, he will be eluding paying any estate taxes at all from the 37 billion, to any government agency. Ha Ha
More do as I say not as I do!
31. WE can call the dog "Ballot" then when it goes missing, we will know it will eventually return to the Democrats mysteriously on the day after the election.
32. I'm sure it's because North Korea has a missle fueled up and those dangerous "talk radios" can jump out at any moment. Like anybody cares about that bat. State Patrol should be doing what they were hired to do. Hit the road troopers! We need you out there more than that leftist hag in Olympia needs anything.
33. Mark,
It's hard to imagine a Governor with the distinction of being less popular than Lowry.
But somehow Gregoire has overcome the odds, and now makes Lowry appear like he was a decent Governor.
34. "Let them eat cake."
35. She's avoiding "bad hair" days.
36. It looks like the office affects the view of more than our current pretender to the throne:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13597660/
37. She can't walk because she needs the security from the threat of "these talk show radios."
