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Posted on 05/11/2006 10:28:28 AM PDT by MooseMan
Party chair's left jabs put Cantwell on the defensive
When Dwight Pelz was elected chairman of the Washington State Democrats, he promised to reach out to moderate and rural Democrats all across the state. It didn't take long for him to revert to form — a reflexive liberal playing to a narrow Seattle base.
Pelz is living proof Democrats love to eat their young — or at least work against their own candidates. Pelz last week did a disservice to U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and the moderate wing of the party by effectively challenging her Democratic bona fides.
Pelz, longtime King County councilman and party chairman not long enough to have a clue, lobbed one at the state's No. 1 Democratic candidate running this fall. Cantwell faces a vigorous Republican challenge in Mike McGavick, former CEO for Safeco and former aide to U.S. Sen Slade Gorton.
"Definitely right now there are a lot of activists who are not signing up to work on her campaign and that's very clear," Pelz said last week, explaining that her position on the Iraq war is making it difficult to recruit volunteers to support her.
Who's he working for?
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
haha
Has Cantwell paid off her last term in office? IIRC, Cantwell went seriously in debt to get to Washington.
...and she was bailed out by HRC.
I know HRC held some fundraisers for her, but I thought she still fell short of the millions she shelled out for that senate seat...?
?????U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and the moderate wing of the party ?????
Cantwell is a MODERATE??? No way.
Oh, moderate wing of the PARTY... That puts her to the left of 90% of the country.
Good to have Howard Dean help her out with her political base on the gay marriage issue too.
Yes, it is an editorial - but the chance they would take a position on a Republican spat is......ahhhhh, like zero. Rather, they would try to further the split and call attention to the disarray of the Republicans!
Well, on "disarray", they might be right!
Ain't read the People's Times in years. Nice to see Joni Balter gnashing her teeth a little.
At least you know where she stands.
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