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Unfortunately, the dems don't care about credibility. They "won," took power and the people let them. The case grinds slowly through the courts while Gregoire appoints cronies, lets contracts and passes laws to reward her supporters. The people of Washington state should have emulated those of Ukraine and stopped the government until a new election was ordered. They didn't and now live in a dictatorship where the courts are only a means of delaying and defusing any solution. The national GOP did not fight and the Feds have taken no role. Washington state is now a banana republic.

Concise. Eloquent. Devastatingly accurate.

Can I ask you a question?

What is your interest in Washington state politics?

You post on nearly every one that comes along, and your posts are depressingly similar:

"If the judges are partisan and vote that way to protect their friends ..."

If this happens, then Washington State will be going the way of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela where a corrupt judiciary is simply a tool for a dictatorship. Ultimately the people must find a way to throw off the yoke of Gregoirevych or submit to tyranny.

Since Washington State is now a dictatorship, the will of the people is of no consequence.

If Gregoire gets to stay without a new election, it is because the GOP won't or can't mobilize the kind of resistance that was successful in the Ukraine. If a 100,000 people camped out around the legislature and the governor's mansion and stopped government services, the result would be different. If Gregoire continues to serve, it would be like Yanukovich successfully stealing the election. She won't be heading a democratically elected government , but rather, a disguised dictatorship.

Great work, but does any of this analysis matter if the judges are partisan? Will Washington State judges rule on the facts or their political affiliations? What can we do if the judicial system is corrupt?

Washington State opponents of Gregoirevych should be watching and taking notes. Protests have, so far, failed to replicate the Ukrainian solution of a new election. Putin may win by tyranny as have the democrats in Washington state, so far.

Do you just post to make us (Washingtonians) feel bad?

The facts are, Rossi is making history by doing the right thing the right way. Rossi & the Washington state GOP isn't trying to find some technical foul that would let us take control (like the dems did). The populous (me included) have staged protests and rallies, and done it all within the system. I suppose that we could riot in the streets, and maybe firebomb the state capitol, but somehow it just doesn't sound right (ya know ;'}

We have citizen activists like Stephen Sharkansky (soundpolitics.com) who are doing massive amounts of footwork studying the voter rolls and election records (and point out again & again the lies that the dems are trying to push off onto us.

AFAIC, you can continue to post, I'm just trying to figure out why you bother....