I mostly concur with Jim below to throw the bums on the Supreme Court out. The two worst incumbents are Gerry Alexander and Susan Owens. I expect challengers John Groen and Senator Stephen Johnson to do a vastly better job defending our civil liberties from government excess than the incumbents will. (Incumbent Tom Chambers has been much better than Alexander and Owens about property rights and open government).
Three reasons to elect John Groen and Stephen Johnson:
1) Alexander and Owens are behind some appalling decisions that have eroded our individual rights. I've posted many entries about these in the past -- Hangartner, Yousoufian, Monorail, Sane Transit, Miller. The list goes on. I'll post a summary tomorrow.
2) Alexander, in particular, has conducted a reprehensible dishonest smear campaign against Groen. In a recent press release, the Alexander campaign described a perfectly legal campaign activity by an independent PAC as follows:
It may be legal, but it is entirely unethical and consistent with Mr. Groen's attempts to avoid compliance with any law he does not like."I spoke with Alexander's campaign chairman at length yesterday to try to understand the basis for this allegation. There is no basis. It is unjustified. More details tomorrow.
3) Finally, it's about the robber and rapist vote. The Supremes have heard arguments, but have not yet ruled whether to uphold or overturn the lower court decision which allowed certain felons to vote. Until the Supreme Court rules, the lower court ruling stands. Felons who have not yet paid off their debt to society or their victims can now vote for the first time in a statewide election, conveniently when the incumbent justices are up for re-election. Had the court ruled one way or another in time for the primary, the voters could make up their own minds whether the ruling was good law. Instead, the incumbent justices have tacitly re-enfranchised the robbers and rapists.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 12, 2006 04:52 PM | Email ThisWhat an open minded man you are to accept Chambers into your graces. Can't quite make the full change on the court?
Just info for all of you waffling conservatives.
Chambers believes he is above the law, by fleeing the seen of an accident two months ago.
Ruled in favor of tax money being spent on benefits for homosexual couples. Heinsma vs. Vancouver.
Ruled to allow a non-custodial lesbian couple custody of a child. Sue Ellen ('Mian') Carvin v. Page Britain.
Ruled in against the Defense of Marriage Act
Chambers endorsed by National Abortion Rights League, Marriage Equality (Gay Marriage Group), Unions & Trial Lawyers.
Sounds like a real winner. Don't let your greed blind your morals.
Very interesting to see the new TV ad denouncing Alexander for his support of Bobbe .22 Bridge. Won't be long until the moonbats start pulling their hair out screaming "MEAN SPIRITED!" for using the drunk driving card in an election. What goes around comes around.
Keep your endorsements (and the underlying reasons) coming. Since I do not spend much time on local politics, I find them valuable.
Posted by: Tom Rekdal on September 12, 2006 06:11 PMAlso, KCGOP has issued an endorsement of Jeanette.
Posted by: mark on September 12, 2006 06:33 PMIn a lawsuit challenging two local taxes that was decided last year, these justices abused their position of authority. The majority opinion contains a handful of spurious legal arguments that were attributed to the appellants in order to engineer a win for the governments. Instead of addressing the actual legal arguments raised against these taxes, the majority made up weak claims and falsely stated the appellants made those claims. It did this to give an unjustified victory to Sound Transit and Seattle Monorail Project.
Some details of this can be found here:
http://soundpolitics.com/public/2006/09/alexander_owens_and_chambers_a.html
This lot refused to vindicate the rights of citizens because that would have meant refunds of some of the car tab taxes these governments had collected.
Posted by: Mason Codrey on September 12, 2006 07:14 PMI check this site out at around 5:30p, and there is a vigorous conversation going on with many posters criticizing your choices and your logic.
Two hours later, and all those critical posts are gone.
Really says something about the kind of person you would support as a Judge, when you think of it.
Really says a lot about you, when you think about it.
(nice try)
Posted by: mark on September 12, 2006 07:53 PMYou are right. I got the threads mixed up. I apologize and retract my previous comment.
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Those who voted to take our land (Bye Bye):
Authored by Mary Fairhurst
Concurring: Barbara A. Madsen
Bobbe J Bridge
Charles W. Johnson
Susan Owens
And those who dissented from taking our land (Good):
Dissenting: James Johnson
Gerry L Alexander
Richard B. Sanders
Tom Chambers
Vote John Groen !
Posted by: KS on September 13, 2006 06:52 PM