This isn't what Pauly Berendt says. The dunce leader of the Washington State DemocRAT Party says felons voted for Rossi because pretend governor fraudoire was the attorney general who put bad guys in jail.

My question to you and perhaps you can look in your stoat-way-back machine you keep in your well equipped cave, has fraudoire ever tried a criminal during her 12 year tenure as AG? Busting non-tribal big tobacco in the chopps doesn't count.

You honor me with your kind words about the mighty StoatPuter as well as the humble yet cozy stoat cave, but in this case my furry little brain can only come up with 'achievements' such as what you have already mentioned. Didn't she also have a hand in destroying the insurance industry here in Washington? I found a bio online but it mentions nothing about that. Here it is....

Christine Gregoire

Christine "Chris" Gregoire is the Attorney General of Washington State and the Democratic candidate in the 2004 Washington gubernatorial race.

The results of that election are still disputed. Against her opponent, Dino Rossi, she was defeated by 261 votes. However, an automatic machine recount diminished that lead to only 42 votes. On December 3rd, the Democratic party requested a hand recount, which will cost them an estimated $1 million. They also filed a motion in the state Supreme Court to reconsider rejected ballots that were not counted previously. The hand recount is expected to be completed on or before December 23rd.

Gregoire was raised in Auburn, and graduated from the University of Washington and Gonzaga University Law School. She served as the director of the state Department of Ecology from 1988 until 1992, when she was first elected attorney general, a post to which she has been twice re-elected. While Ecology Director she negotiated the triparty agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy to clean-up waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in 1989. As Attorney General she sued several times to try to get more adequate clean-up progress. Congress has not appropriated the level of funding to allow the pace of activity anticipated by the orginal agreement, now estimated to require a total of $50-100 billion to complete. Dissatisfaction with the slow pace of clean-up lead to a successful citizens initiative in 2004 to refuse new waste shipments until past clean-up promises were back on track.

Gregoire was also heavily involved in the lawsuit against the tobacco industry in the 1990s and won the state a $4.5 billion share of the settlement including a $500 million bonus for her lead role.

In the 2004 gubernatorial race, Gregoire was accused of racism when it was revealed that that she belonged to an all-white sorority while at the University of Washington. She countered the accusations by claiming to have spoken out after graduating for change in the policy to admit blacks into the sorority. Gregoire defeated Ron Sims (and four other minor candidates) in the primary election on 14 September 2004. Sims campaigned on the need for tax reform.

During the general election against former State Senator and real estate agent Dino Rossi, Gregoire proposed a major state research initiative in life sciences including stem cell research. She was criticized for being a part of the Olympia establishment but tried to counter the "time for a change" message by saying she would "blow past the bureaucracy" and bring change herself. This language surprised and disappointed many of her colleagues and supporters. She was also criticized for failing to give much mention or credit to the efforts and achievements of past Democratic Governors while being quite self-congratulatory about her own public service. A major focus of ads attacking Gregoire was her failing to meet a filing deadline as attorney general that ended up costing the state millions of dollars.

Christine Gregoire

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