King 5 to Host Life Statewide Gubernatorial Debate (Rossi vs. Gregoire)

King5 TV Seattle ^ | October 11, 2004 | King5

[Lexinom]

KING 5 to host live statewide gubernatorial debate

03:12 PM PDT on Monday, October 11, 2004

KING

KING 5 will host a live statewide debate this Wednesday featuring candidates running for Washington state governor, a one-hour special to be moderated by KING 5 News anchor Jean Enersen.

Co-sponsored by The Seattle Times, the Washington state gubernatorial debate will feature Democrat Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi.

The debate will be held Wednesday, October 13, at 8:00 p.m. PT in the KING 5 studios and will be televised live across the state on KING 5 in Seattle, KREM 2 in Spokane and NorthWest Cable News. The Public Radio Northwest News Network also plans to carry the debate live.

[Lexinom]

Did anyone watch this?

What explains Gregoire's morbid fixation on life-destroying stem cell research? She's like a little kid fascinated by death... Why would Washtingtonians want a reputation as the denizens of the "Death State"?

Rossi did extremely well. The line of the evening: "I'm going to do something unique: I'm going to be governor of the whole state of Washington."

[smileee]

Darn, I never watch local tv because I get home from work too late, so I missed this debate. How did Rossi do against Gregoire? On another Washington Republican issue, I'm hoping one of you freepers can help me out on ... has the RNC pulled funding from Nethercutt? If so, why?

[stubernx98]

I know two life long Democrats who are voting for Rossi. Mainly because they know Christine. They say she is incompetent.

[Lexinom]

Rossi did extremely well, and the debate tone remained calm and civil. He hammered home the theme that we can't fix the state's economic woes if we continue on the same path that helped cause them. This means less regulation (we're #5 most regulated) and a friendlier business climate.

Gregoire was unable to say how embryonic stem-cell research would create 40,000 new jobs (Rossi cited a study that showed at most 700 jobs would be created).

As far as your second question, where did you learn that? Now I'm curious too.

[smileee]

I heard something about this on one of the talk stations. I didn't hear all of it, just that Nethercutt would not be using $1M from RNC. I'm not even sure if that's the whole of the information, as I didn't hear all of it. That's what I'm hoping somebody here can help me piece together. Freepers have never failed me - there's always somebody in the know.

[Lexinom]

What's probably happened is the RNC has had to make decisions about which races to support based on probability of victory. Unfortunately, my FRiend, we live in the belly of the beast here in the godless Northwest.