Contumelious liberal columnist Joel Connelly is shocked, shocked! that political parties are engaged in partisan campaigning over the officially partisan office of King County Prosecutor, with the Democrat Party accusing the Republican nominee of being "partisan", and vice-versa:
It's time to send a message to would-be Karl Roves about our prosecutor's race: Butt out!Connelly's foot-stamping about political parties behaving like, uh, political parties strikes me as sophomoric, but at least he's above name-calling!
I don't claim to know an exact definition of "partisan", nor do I know exactly how well that predicts how a candidate for Prosecutor will perform in office. But I will observe that Republican Dan Satterberg has lined up the support of many prominent Democrats, including Mrs. Gregoire's close confidante Jenny Durkan, and Ron Sims' top deputy Sheryl Whitney. On the other hand, Democrat Bill Sherman has yet to announce an endorsement from a single prominent Republican.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at September 14, 2007 03:24 PM | Email ThisI didn't think the ad against Sherman to be a smear. I think politicians are overly sensitive regarding what is a negative ad or not.
Posted by: swatter on September 14, 2007 03:48 PMThe funny thing is that such a move would have likely helped Satterburg and hurt Sherman. My hunch is that most people are just going to vote D as this is King County and Satterburg does not have the standing of Maleng yet.
Posted by: Giffy on September 14, 2007 04:25 PMThe Durkans definitely don't do party lines. I remember back in the 70s, either 74, 76 or 78, Martin ran for US REP and was defeated in the primary by a young, bright, sincere D named Durning, a patent attorney who worked with the WEC (todays equivalent to the 1000 Enemies of Washington group). Boy, was Martin ever ticked off. He gave his campaign contributor lists to the Republican, not Durning, his opponent. This might even have been before PDCs.
The Republican won.
Posted by: swatter on September 14, 2007 04:34 PMEveryone needs a hobby, so if Stefan's hobby is trying to figure out how Joel's brain works, then so be it.
Posted by: Moondoggie on September 14, 2007 07:39 PMThe Republican letter was filthy piece of work. These are two wlel qualified guys. Whatever Schwanztragger in the Reptican party wrote this letter should be sacrificed at the Karl Rove monument.
I have met both of the guys. I was likely to vote for Satterburg mainly on experience but also as a way of keeping at least one Reprican in office.
What Shark and the GOP have done has cost you my vote. I apologize to Mr, Satterburg but Rovism is disgisting.
Posted by: SeattleJew on September 15, 2007 02:45 AMI'm assuming that you must have misread something to become so irate that you couldn't spell.
Or you are trying to coin new terms, which you shouldn't.
So, take a breath, get some sleep because I question what you were doing at 2:45am to post crap like that, and look again.
See ya later!
Posted by: Chris on September 15, 2007 06:53 AMIt is of, or relating to, parties.
Which is what the prosecutor's race is, by definition. Whether it should be such is up to the voters.
Posted by: pudge on September 15, 2007 10:48 AM