WA Gov. Race: Try, Try Again

National Review ^ | 14 February 2005

[Publius]

We're getting national attention now.

[Publius]

Please ping the chapter.

[lilylangtree]

Given that the demoncRATS have already called for tax increases to make up for the $1.6 billion shortfall rather than cut expenses, want a state income tax and have requested another raise, we need a REVOTE.

[Radix]

"Gregoire has just taken office, having overtaken Rossi in a second recount."

They'll never let go of power now.

Does Washington state have a mechanism for recall as was done in California?

[12.7mm]

Not to mentioned this. This one really burns me up!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327568/posts

[JohnnyZ]

As Fund points out, North Carolina is about to have a statewide re-vote in an agriculture-commissioner race.

That illegal attempt to call a revote by the Democrats on the State Elections Board was rejected by the courts, so it looks like we won't be having a re-vote. Republican Steve Troxler won the race by over 2,000 votes but the crooks on the Board of Elections won't certify him the winner, and in the meantime the incumbent Democrat is still holding office!!!

[Vicki]

Great article and glad we're getting the attention.

[Publius]

The law in Washington is different. Here you can only recall an officeholder for malfeasance in office.

[GretchenM]

Publius, thank you so much for the direct ping.

Sky, I'm pleased to see NR has taken this on. Our two liberal rags, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Seattle Times are even investigating the irregularities and reporting facts. This is a huge gauge of the pendulum swing out here.

In case "bubble" doesn't connote effectively, it's an outline of a sort of oval shape that needs to be filled in.

Sentiment on the local level here does not seem to indicate that Rossi will hurt his political future by challenging a corrupt election result.

[12.7mm]

can I have the one on the left :o)

[JohnnyZ]

can I have the one on the left :o)

AND MAKE ME SETTLE FOR THE ONE ON THE RIGHT?!?!?

I can live with that ;)

[Digger]

That illegal attempt to call a revote by the Democrats on the State Elections Board was rejected by the courts, so it looks like we won't be having a re-vote. Republican Steve Troxler won the race by over 2,000 votes but the crooks on the Board of Elections won't certify him the winner, and in the meantime the incumbent Democrat is still holding office!!!

So what else is left but an all out revolution. Anything less is a total sellout.

[snugs]

Thanks for the ping

[EQAndyBuzz]

JESSE, JESSE WHERE ARE YOU?

[JohnnyZ]

So what else is left but an all out revolution.

Well, the legislative Democrats are starting to come out and say the incumbent rat, Cobb, should give up, and the newspapers are saying the same. So it's up to the courts and public opinion to force the issue, probably in the next two weeks.

[mvpel]

"Due to what has been discovered since the hand recount went Christine Gregoire's way, Washington State is under the national microscope as a case study in botched elections and bureaucratic ineptitude. That will continue, for months. Unless. Gregoire could restore the state's integrity and her own by agreeing to a new vote, but clinging to power is clearly a higher priority.

She's a Democrat, what does he expect?

[SkyPilot]

Gretchen,

First encouraging article on this I have read in weeks.

Perhaps God will bring justice to this tragedy after all.

P.S. If I were a betting man, I would wager from this article that National Review has already talked to people who know this judge well, and they are almost certain he is not going to throw away his entire legal reputation on 129 phony votes.

[ride the whirlwind]

Byron York is a gem. I remember him shining the spotlight on the senatorial election in S.Dakota in '02, in which Johnson beat Thune under questionable circumstances.