Posted on 12/08/2004 12:38:49 PM PST by JosefK
Okay, below is latest the Rossi campaign press release:
Gregoire & the memo: Attorney General claims ignorance
Bellevue, WA – Christine Gregoire is trying to shrug off responsibility for a 1996 memo that puts her own Attorney General’s office at odds with her efforts now to change the rules of the recount in the governor’s race.
Yesterday, a November 1996 memo from then-Secretary of State Ralph Munro regarding a manual recount in a state legislative race was made public. It included the following statement:
“Challenge of Ballots Not Allowed. We are advised by the Attorney General that state law makes no provision for the challenge of ballots or voters (as provided in RCW 29.10.125) during the recount. The recount procedure provided for by statute is a mechanical function of re-tallying the ballots cast and accepted as valid by the precinct election officers or the canvassing board during the canvass of the election. The decision of the canvassing board with respect to the inclusion or exclusion of a particular ballot during the canvass is not open to question during the recount.”
Gregoire was Attorney General at the time of this memo; she was elected in 1992.
Now, however, Gregoire says that the opinion in the memo was an old one and that she was never personally asked for her advice. Governor-elect Dino Rossi’s office says Gregoire’s excuse sidesteps the issue.
If Gregoire disagreed with the opinion in 1996, she shouldn’t have allowed it to be included in a public document from a state agency. Instead, if she thought the opinion was wrong, Gregoire should have issued a new opinion. But she didn’t, and the standing rule remained as-is.
“Once again, Christine Gregoire is trying to pass the buck and claim it wasn’t her fault,” said Rossi spokeswoman Mary Lane. “It’s hard to believe that at the time of this memo, when she had already been Attorney General for four years, she let stand an opinion she didn’t agree with. If she did fail to correct an opinion she thought was wrong, then she was derelict in her duty as Attorney General.
“The fact that Christine Gregoire can’t deny is that for 12 years as Attorney General, she did nothing to change the rule that you don’t bring previously rejected ballots back into a hand recount. It’s only now that she’s lost the election twice that she wants to change the rules.”
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What a democrat said yesterday does not apply today. It never has and never will.
It does because small confession: I am one. I'm just a Dinocrat doing ALL that I can to preserve the result.
My party was hijacked. I'm going to retake the plane. LET'S ROLL!
The main problem, Dims refuse to accept the rule of law if it inconveniently interferes with there personal goal
I suspect that if Scoop was alive today, he would have been up on podium next to Zell Miller.
Sad truth that too many do. Go to my blog at http://j... never mind - this is what I said on my blog:
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This clearly shows the incompetence of Christine Gregoire. The rule should have been changed back in 1996. As an outgrown Trekkie - I know that if you jump back in time and change the result, then you create a parallel universe. For that matter, the act of making each decision can dramatically change history. We elect our leaders not to manage for today, but tomorrow. Sadly, for the party that's about children - this is not management worthy of that mantle.
And until otherwise, I consider Mary Lane my State Secretary of Defense... as Stefan Sharksansky of SoundPolitics.com wrote HERE - 'Some might say that it doesn't sound very big-hearted to insist that only legal votes are counted. But they're wrong. For every illegal vote that is counted, somewhere a legal voter is disenfranchised. And we don't want to disenfranchise our legal voters.' Took the words out of my mouth and that's why he's part of the gold standard of Washington State bloggers (alongside Horsesass.org).
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If I sound corny as in scripted cliches, I sincerely apologize. GO DINO GO!
Bookmarked. Thanks!
unbelievable
Yup, I think so. In fact, I think Maria Cantwell is another one of them and I have EVERY intention of supporting her re-election... and getting a Scoop Jackson book.
Enough's enough.
The party of the ACLU should go ballistic at Gregoire over public records and help Rossi & McKenna...
The party of Jefferson-Jackson dinners should go ballistic over the King County CAO...
The party of the children should go ballistic over lengthy and illegal WA state teachers' strikes...
That's why I'm a Dinocrat. I stand FOR farmers as one, FOR civil liberties as a user of them, and FOR children with a little brother. Enuf said.
bump for later read
No, it's my last initial. I'm stopping there.
Yep.Right on point. Remember New Jersey law concerning candidates' deadlines and Toricelli and Lautmer. The law was clear, but hey, Dems don't need no "stinkin" law.
Thats going to take some serious explaining.
Simple, Cantwell is a New Democrat. So am I. Gregoire is a fraud and a criminal, period. Do yourself a favor and go to http://josef-a-k.blogspot.com and search for "public records"...
I agree completely and have said it often. An illegal ballot is just as bad as someone being disenfranchised. Because a bad vote disenfranchises a legal voter
I had dealings with Cantwell in 1991 when she represented the 32nd District in the state legislature, and I found her to be reasonable and not bound by ideology.
Maybe so, but she is going to be in for one major league fight to keep her seat
The Maria Cantwell who is buddy buddy with Patty "Osama Built Daycare Centers" Murray?
The same Maria Cantwell that thinks Jerry Springer would make "a fine Senator"?
The same Maria Cantwell who until recently was the largest receipent of lobbyist cash in all of congress?
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