Posted on 03/07/2005 9:28:14 PM PST by Seattle Conservative
OLYMPIA — Democrats sound a confident tone in their public statements about the governor's election lawsuit.
For instance, one party attorney said Republicans' list of alleged illegal voters would end up as toilet paper "in an outhouse on Blewett Pass" on the mountain highway route that leads to the Chelan County courthouse, where the case will be heard.
But the state Democratic Party's new fund-raising solicitation has a much more alarming tone.
"This is no joke! Don't stop reading until you've finished this letter," pleads the two-page mailing, sent to Democrats this week by state party Chairman Paul Berendt.
Fear is a tried-and-true motivator in political fund raising. And Berendt spun a scary tale of Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff and top political adviser, calling the shots in Republican Dino Rossi's case against the election of Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire.
Berendt warned of "guerrilla tactics" by "right-wing attorneys" and "extremist operatives." He said they are "meticulously crafting a case to unseat Christine Gregoire."
To fight back, Berendt said, Democrats must renew their membership in the party.
"I am not an alarmist," Berendt wrote in the letter.
"This is not Chicken Little crying: 'The sky is falling.' "
"Renew your membership today at the most generous level you can afford and help me stop Rove's mignons [sic] in their tracks."
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Mary Lane, a spokeswoman for Rossi, said people in the White House are kept up to date about the case. "They're interested in what's going on. ... We talk to them about it," she said. "There's certainly no Karl Rove pulling strings."
White House spokesman Ken Lisaius said no one in the Bush administration is involved in the lawsuit.
In his letter, Berendt summarized an article in the November issue of The Atlantic Monthly that detailed a 1994 Alabama state Supreme Court election Rove was involved in.
Rove's client lost by 304 votes and he launched an aggressive effort for a recount and a public-relations strategy "to drive home the idea that the election was being stolen," according to the magazine article.
There are parallels to the current dispute here over the governor's election. In both cases, Republicans held a news conference with the parents of a military voter to question whether overseas ballots were handled properly. Republicans in both states filed a lawsuit that named a long list of public officials as respondents. Both held rallies; business groups financed media campaigns.
In Alabama, the Republican candidate eventually won.
All that was fodder for Berendt's plea.
"Sound familiar?" he wrote. "Well it should, because that's exactly what they are doing in our state, and I have to tell you, the result in Alabama was a loss in the State Supreme Court in October of the year following the election!"
Berendt alleges in his letter that Rove's reach — on behalf of Bush — goes even further than the governor's election dispute. He says Rove is behind failed attempts to recall Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed and Democratic King County Councilman Dow Constantine.
"We know what they're doing," Berendt wrote, "and we're going to tell the world that it's the Bush team, with the Bush tactics, and Karl Rove pulling the strings that's trying to defeat us."
LOL I'm sure he meant, and help me eat Rove's mignons.
I love a nice, fat filet mignon. What an ignoranimus!
"... or, failing that: at least gimme enough dough to buy myself a halfway decent grade school education, for pity's sake -- !" :)
Blaming Rove is one thing, but blaming his filet mignons is really stooping low.
I knew it was Bush's fault. Or Roves fault. Or Cheney's fault. Maybe it was Lara's fau......oh, never mind, I can't do this with a straight face.
LOL! Good one!
If Rove freaks them out this bad, I say we keep him well after Bush is out of office.
I knew I liked Rove for a reason.
...or Clara Peller....
WHERE'S THE BEEF!!!???
Maybe Paul should take the WASAL ;-)
ROFLMAO! Too perfect!
Rove for President in '08!
Ha ha ha ha ha. It was Halliburton. |
Note to Dems: Paranoia will destroy 'ya.
Would someone tell that left wing political hack for the unions, Christine Haywire, to stop making appointments until this mess she created gets worked out????
"Tell us more about the mysterious, omnipresent and all-powerful Rove-God again, Uncle Bob," the children would plead, each and every Halloween...
:)
KARL ROVE SENT A DINGO TO EAT ALL MY PET FLUFFY KITTENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KARL ROVE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KARL ROVE CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your right, when all else fails, blame Karl Rove. Of course it's ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!!!!!!
:-)
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Oh good, they think it's Rove.