"...I hope we can finally put this nonsense to rest, and get on with the business of ousting Maria Cantwell in November."
I would hope so too, but don't bet on it. After talking with my - liberal - mother Sunday night (she is on the left side of the state- WA - I am on the right side) the DUI was all she could talk about. It is all the news the I-5 liberals need over there and to them the election is as good as over.
Maria Cantwell was elected six years ago by winning just 5 of 39 counties in the state of Washington. Yup! 5! There are enough people in the Seattle I-5 corridor to out vote the rest of the entire state (many of them over the last few years are transplanted liberal Californicators who heard that we do not have a state income tax).
I think that this state is "blessed" with the most liberal senators in the USA (Cantwell and Patty Murray) for as long as the world turns. Now I have to go throw up!!
You folks give me some degree of hope....
I'm living in Clark County in SW Washington, and we are being eaten alive by the local Democrats who cannot find enough ways to get our tax dollars. Last month the County handed out 113,000 new assessments, that increased property values an average of 35%, with some going as high as 51% !! They are peddling this in the local paper as just "sticker shock" and telling us not to panic...
And coverage of the McGavick campaign by the Columbian, is limited to things like a column this morning about the 20 demonstrators who came out yesterday to show how Mike McGavick is just like George Bush. They held a fake Bush-McGavick Campaign rally, and the Columbian staff was there with baited breath to catch every syllable.
The Columbian won't even acknowledge that there is even a Republican Primary going on, much less even mention a Republican running for local offices.
The point is, there's enough bias in the local media without the Republicans piling on our candidates as well. Especially when this whole tempest in a teapot was started by the Puget Sound based media in the first place.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired about Seattle calling the shots for the whole State. The same thing goes on across the river in Portland; trust me that folks in Pendleton have a much different (read: redder) view of Oregon state politics than the DUers over in Portland do.
The question still remains: Do Republicans in Washington have the guts to do what it takes to vote out the likes of Maria Cantwell, Patty al Murray, "Baghdad" Jim McDermitt, Brian Baird, et al?
I think that the Washington Congressional Delegation is largely a National embarrassment. What are we prepared to do about it??