Sound Politics: Around the Sound

June 29, 2006

Around the Sound

* Secretary of State Sam Reed's office has cancelled the voter registrations of 848 incarcerated felons. Good. Current state law, recently struck down by King County Superior Court, would also empower Reed to cancel the registrations of thousands of unincarcerated felons who have not yet satisfied their remaining obligations. But unless and until the state Supreme Court overturns the King County ruling and upholds the current law, unincarcerated felons are still eligible to vote. Reed has been collaborating with Attorney General Rob McKenna to defend the current law.

* The King County Journal commends Councilman Reagan Dunn for publicizing the fact that the County Recorder's website posts documents with social security numbers. Dunn's attention to this security flaw attention has educated affected individuals to protect themselves from possible identity theft by instructing the county to remove the offending documents from the web.

* Today's P-I: "Conservative judicial candidates get help"

This year's Supreme Court races have become more politicized, and waged more along ideological lines, than ever before, with moderate, conservative and business groups lining up behind the challengers and liberal and Democratic forces backing the incumbents.

Oops. I might have copied that quote slightly wrong. Read the original quote and see if you can spot what I've changed.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 29, 2006 10:18 AM | Email This

Comments

1. Moderate, moderate, who's got the moderates?

Stefan, thanks for pointing out the arrogance of the PI in unilaterally declaring anyone voting for conservative judges to not be a moderate, whereas moderates are assumed to vote for liberal judges. Who reads this crap any more?

Posted by: huckleberry on June 29, 2006 11:06 AM

2. Actually, I believe the PI - yes, I can hardly believe it myself - said that moderates are lined up with conservatives!

moderate, conservative and business groups lining up behind the challengers and liberal and Democratic forces backing the incumbents

Moderates, conservatives, and business in one camp, liberals and Democratic forces in the other.

The horror! The horror!

Posted by: Edmonds Dan on June 29, 2006 11:20 AM

3.
In WA, "moderate" means people like Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray. "Liberal" means Jim McDermott. "Conservative" is anyone who ever voted for a Republican.

It is all relative... a "moderate" in Texas would be a raving right wing loony in WA. A "moderate" from CA would be a communist here.

Posted by: A Real Moderate on June 29, 2006 12:04 PM

4. How can you think of Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray of being moderates. If you look at the conservative ratings of these two they are not in the middle they tend to be liberal. But then Moderates in your eyes are considered Communists and Socialists in the Mid West. Overall all I do not see how you can say Liberal and Democrats are two forces. The elected Democrats at least in this state are Liberals. I see very few Democrats cross the line from their party unless they made a deal with Republicans to cross over to their side. Democrats want to appear to be moderates at times on certain votes but overall all they are liberal. There is no "Skip Jackson" in the Washington Democratic party. Nor would the current party leaders allow some with integrity of the whole instead of the integrity of the party is the priority on his or her voting.

Posted by: David Anfinrud on June 29, 2006 12:59 PM

5. Stefan: In RE: The 848 incarcerated felons who were registered voters. Is there any way to see if they actually voted while incarcerated???

Posted by: john425 on June 29, 2006 01:09 PM

6. Edmonds Dan:

Follow Stefan's P-I link and read the actual PI article, not Stefan's funny, unintentionally intentional misquoting of it.

P-I Reporter NEIL MODIE says, and I quote:

This year's Supreme Court races have become more politicized, and waged more along ideological lines, than ever before, with conservative and business groups lining up behind the challengers and moderate, liberal and Democratic forces backing the incumbents.

Stefan, is your sense of humor too sophisticated for your readership? Perhaps you should be more blunt like we conservatives prefer.

Posted by: huckleberry on June 29, 2006 01:31 PM

7. Hey Stefan, get a load of this! Cantwell trash-talked by her own staffer!

Posted by: Patrick on June 29, 2006 01:49 PM

8. If you want to hear some further comments about Groen he probably is going to be on Republican Perspective at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, that is tonight. He likes the legislature to speak there mind.

Posted by: Keith Ljunghammar on June 29, 2006 02:23 PM

9. I am glad to read Councilman Dunn's foghorn. If anyone is correct on this point he is. John Adam was one of the most vocal of our founding fathers for retaining the privacy of our 'papers' unless due process of the law had poked its head up. This is a constitutional issue and not even laziness on the part of government should interfer with our rights to protect. We should not have to demand the government protect our right of having our papers secure from the public and from the government if needed. Good eye Dunn.

Posted by: Keith Ljunghammar on June 29, 2006 02:31 PM

10. And queenie "won" by how many votes?

Posted by: Fox3 on June 29, 2006 03:04 PM

11. Leftwing bias!!!!!!

Posted by: Misty on June 29, 2006 04:08 PM

12. Now if the SOS would cancel the registrations of those who aren't legal residents...is it asking too much????....scrubbing the rolls & re-registering with birth certificates/passports.

Posted by: Susu on June 29, 2006 05:08 PM

13. Real moderate says: "It is all relative... a "moderate" in Texas would be a raving right wing loony in WA. A "moderate" from CA would be a communist here."

That is exactly what happened to me when we moved here from TN. Without changing anything, I woke up a raving right wing loony after being completely "normal" in my community.

Kathy

Posted by: kathy on June 29, 2006 05:15 PM

14. Welcome to the "dark side" kathy ;'}

Posted by: alphabet soup on June 29, 2006 05:23 PM