Posted on 12/21/2004 8:15:35 PM PST by fidelio
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Democratic state chairman says recount results from King County give Democrat Christine Gregoire an eight-vote victory in Washington's governor's race.
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You could be right. I keep hoping that deep in the heart of some liberals lies a seed of decency and reason. But I will have to admit, it's only a theory based on very little documentary evidence.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Democrats have claimed victory in the race for Washington governor by a razor-thin margin of eight votes, citing preliminary results of a hand recount they say puts Christine Gregoire in front for the first time. Republicans maintained the race was still too close to call...
It's a bit late in the thread, but thanks for the clarification on the 320 ballots.
I agree.
Just run the election again and get the RATs out-voted officially. They have obviously tried to steal the legal election.
IF the rats had been behind by 8 votes thaty would be screaming so loudly that the entire country would need to place their collective hands over their ears. WE MUST SCREAM BLOODY MURDER until we are given JUSTICE and our LEGALLY ELECTED Governor (Dino Rossi) is in office.
Not even at all. Algore nearly stole the 2000 election.
So now that they've found enough votes, they aren't calling to 'count all the votes'? Ha....
... thus certifying their official 'Who!'
(read the entire post, Here.)
Socialist governor, socialist run state house and senate; state income tax coming to Washington state REAL SOON! I bet they propose one for us in the next term to make up some of out going socialist governor Gary Locke's $500 million tax hike plan he just introduced with the budget.
Washington's new motto: "The EverSpend State!"
New infomercial: "Come to Washington, we'll tax you to oblivion and make you like it."
Actually, no the people cannot run an initiative to change this -- this is the State Constitution -- which requires a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature and then a vote of the people to change.
To make the Constitutional amendment and then run a recall gets you to 2006 at the very earliest (and that's only if you get the RATs in the Legislature to allow this to happen).
Why waste the huge effort? She'll be over half way through her term by then. You have to win here and now -- or you have to get the admitted long-shot of another vote approved by the Court or the legislature. Otherwise, we will be living with another RAT governor for at least four more years (which will make it 24 years and counting).
The department directors and big money RAT interests will make a sigh of relief and get back to using the public money for their own purposes, and to enrich their own wallets and maintain their own power bases. And they'll work doubly hard for all four years to make sure they never get that close to disaster again.
That is the reason I think we have that red state - blue state thing. The socialist really should have been the RED states and us the blue.
It really depends on who wins.
You wouldn't believe how many liberals follow the power. As Rossi was ahead in the count there are a number of liberals I know that suddenly warmed and presented themselves as moderate Republicans.
A revealing outside example of this shift in allegiance behavior is found in the 1996 Czech film 'Kolya'.
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/k/kolya.html
You rent this movie at a video store or purchase it from Amazon online. In this film a Czech worker is held at a KGB office where he is interrogated for hours and hours, is beaten and worn down just as the velvet revolution is beginning to happen outside.
The KGB agents finally let him go letting him know they will come after him later. But the revolution is successful and a new noncommunist government takes over. As the crowds mass in the streets to celebrate, the beaten worker catches sight among the crowds of the KGB agents that beat him. They also see him and they smile and wave saying they were never really communists.
And so it goes, if Rossi wins we will see many say they were never really liberals. But those that are part of the underground conservative group in Seattle know who is who.
Here in Seattle, so many people, those that work in unions, government, contracted to unions or government, education or who are surrounded by liberals and act liberal to avoid conflict, will shift allegiance in seconds once they know who has power.
In short, there are alot of people who are held 'hostage' by liberal power. Please don't blame all of them for not being principled and taking a stand. Liberals do use criminal actions or the threat of criminal action to silence opposition. Think of these conservative hostages as an underground resistance.
Dwight Pelz, left, holds up a ballot as he and Dean Logan, center, and Dan Satterberg, right, try to determine voter intent on 1,627 King County ballots, Monday, Dec. 20, 2004, in Seattle. Observing behind the Canvassing Board members are Diane Tebelius, left back, a Republican, Will Rava, a Democrat, and Brad Henry, a Libertarian.
Thanks for bringing that up. This is not the first law designed or having the effect of thwarting the will of the people.
Are you certain the initiative process is completely separate from state constitutional law?
In any event the effort is worth it to revamp many of the laws in the state of Washington. I have seen my shares of laws that promote incumbency.
And Washington State voters do remember Tom Foley, don't they?
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