please add me to ping list on this subject if available. I'm a Washingtonian, and I'm fighting mad.
Just a question. I'm in NC, and I haven't been hearing much coverage of this on the news. What I have heard is mostly negative about Rossi. One commentator I listened to said 'Rossi told Gregorie to conceede for the good of the state while he was winning, but the second the tables flipped and he was losing, he forgot his own words and was fighting her tooth and nail for a revote.' I've also been hearing of Marine outrage over a picture that was taken of a march in Washington that displayed the GOP flag over the Marine Corp flag (according to flag code that means its more important being displayed on top, and the Marines are viewing that as Rossi thinking partisanship is more important than the military that is defending them).
Is all the media coverage this negative all over the nation? (or non-existant?) I don't know if all this information is true or not (the Marine flag and the Rossi statement). Acutally, I don't know much about what's going on AT ALL, other than she was sworn in in the last few days or something. Most of the sentiment around here is just 'get over it', at least the people that know anything about it. The media isn't reporting any facts (you know, 'how can dead people vote?') The biggest problem I see are those pesky Dems that still think that the presidental election was stolen (knowing our luck, half of the WA congress). They either shrug and ignore it, or when presented with facts, say something along the lines of 'When Kerry gets his revote, then we'll give Rossi a revote too.'
I mean, like, I want to help, but I live in a small, but very blue area here in NC. (someone come rescue me! lol) Really, I'm just now finding out details of this thing. Could anyone point me to other threads or articles or whatever that have more information? (statistics, ect.)
I wrote this op-ed/vanity and posted it overnight last night -- so late that few saw it. FYI.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1318990/posts