Tell your friends and relatives! I'm finding that, unlike my husband, most people aren't following the Elections Director race and aren't familiar with the choices. They are happy to receive some input so that they aren't voting blind. My mom submitted her ballot for David Irons already and told two neighbors who said, OK, now we know who to vote for.
Here are some reasons you can give:
David Irons was a respected King County councilperson
He is a successful businessperson with the proven management skills to run the Elections Office
Regardless of your politics, it is important to have checks and balances in the system (his chief opponent was appointed to lead the Elections office by the King County executive and both she and the executive were opposed to making the Elections Department directly accountable to the voters)
Finally, if you are a Republican, voting for the other person is like having the fox guard the henhouse
The only chance to rid King County of this Elections corruption and return county elections back over to the voter is stand behind one of the challengers and vote together.
I'm with Mrs. Shark. Dave Irons Jr. is my guy. Awesome! Great!
Anyone but Huff!
Posted by: Reality on January 29, 2009 09:54 PMI have known Pam Roach for years. I get tired of the Roach bashing that goes on in this county because she is a strong woman who speaks her mind. She has taken incredible abuse from liberals including in the Republican Party years while she has SERVED all of us in Olympia.
When I see some of her detractors who criticize her go out there and run for office and win against some pretty big odds because she is a CONSERVATIVE (Yvonne Ward tried TWICE and lost)then I will listen. In the meantime, to use a phrase from the Princess Diaries - 'Just shut up!'
And no, it is not Goldstein who has done a hit on Irons, it is the SAME article today in the Seattle Times. I like David Irons AND Pam Roach. I consider them both friends. BUT the electorate out there who read the paper either in print and online will only read that one of the two Republicans hit his mother (I don't believe that, but so what? The public will.). They will read that the other Republican is feisty, but that she stands up for the people.
Come on people, if you want a Republican in there I would suggest you call your friends and tell them to vote Roach, because Joe Blow on the street is not going to vote for Irons. Let's put the blame where the blame is due for this one Sharkansky. YOU told us you voted for Irons, and then you let people blog on here about the brouhaha with David Irons and his mother. I suspect that if you had not done so, the Seattle Times would not have printed it. Talk about cuting off your nose to spite your face!!!!!
And, whether you are voting for her or not, I would suggest that all of you email Senator Roach at her home email and thank her for doing so much for us. She is a classy lady folks! Here is her email: PamRoach@aol.com. While you're at it, email David Irons and thank him for his service in the past. I do not know his new email. It is probably at his website.
Go to the Public Blog will see the letter I delivered to Cheryl Huff yesterday along with the letter from the widow of the DEAD man who died in 1993 and the letter from the Cemetary that he is buried. They let me keep the unopened ballot for the dead man, and because I demanded when they said they couldn't do it because the dates did not match, they finally got him off, they called me less that 10 minutes after I left their office and said he is off. I checked here on Sound Politics. He IS off. Thank you Stefan for the service to look up voters.
If you know any dead people, I suggest you look them up by NAME and ADDRESS and see if they are still on since the elections department is incompetent and they cannot keep their records straight, much less REMOVE peoople who last voted in November of 1992!!!!!! THAT is totally ILLEGAL to keep people on the rolls and mail them ballots in 2009, dead or NOT dead!!!!! This happened under the watch of both Huff & Kempf and all the other DEMOCRAT elections managers we have had since the dead man died!!! I keep thinking of the song: 'Nothing but the Dead and the Dying back in our Little Town'.
Ruth Gibbs, Republican who does not rip, tear and bash other Republicans.
The entire slate for this office is weak, and Roach's history of moving in and out of her district has been well documented in the press--a complaint advanced about Huff.
Posted by: Sammamish on January 30, 2009 06:43 AMI don't care if he is good or not; I do care that Huff or some other liberal ain't elected. Since you have one shot at the gold ring and there are six or seven candidates, doesn't it appear obvious that unless you can at least agree on a candidate, Huff is the winner by default? As mentioned above, she is the favorite of the downtown cocktail clubs and other elites.
This frustration above has been knawing at me after reading her for the last couple of years (probably back to McGavick). Come on, children. Grow up and act like the grownup party. At least on this one.
Posted by: swatter on January 30, 2009 07:17 AMWhen the Roach comes pop, pop, poppin, y'all be drop, drop droppin. Vote for Pam the Popper!
For those of us who know and have worked with both of these clowns, that's not really a ringing endorsement.
Posted by: jimg on January 30, 2009 10:42 AMBut she's several donuts short of a dozen.
Posted by: jimg on January 30, 2009 10:45 AMOk, Roach, Irons, Clifford... who? In this vote I'm voting against vote fraud. In the county of Sims any vote against Huff is a vote against Sims and a vote against Democrat-sponsored vote fraud. My vote is no more principled than an anti-fraud vote against Sims' vote fraud machine enhanced by Dean Logan and built upon by his mentor and replacement Sherill Huff. If we split the "anyone but Huff" vote she WILL win!
Not that the handful of SP voters can make a difference, but it's an impossible situation with 6 candidates and the simple winner of the most votes the winner.
Republicans need to unify behind someone who can out-vote the 25-35% that Huff will get by default.
Divided we will fall and the status-quo will continue in Sims County.
Posted by: Reality on January 30, 2009 11:13 AM@7: I agree, and Irons has no chance if people read about his "family" - where he hits his Mom and the rest of the dysfunctional family thinks he is a baldface liar.
Posted by: correctnotright on January 30, 2009 02:18 PMLike I said earlier, when you bashers have the guts and courage to get out there and take the heat and get elected yourselves - or LOSE as the case may be - then you can take pot shots of the ones who do.
Until then, I recommend you go slink back under the rocks from whence you came and quit attacking Irons or Roach.
Ruth Gibbs