Having lived through his reign, I have absolutely NO recollection of criticism from his Dem buddies. Locke is an extreme pro-abort, including vetoing partial birth abortion bans.
If we can only have Democrat governors in Washington, I’ll go with Locke every time. He is not corrupt—at least as far as I know. He was never surprised by the budget. He is a gentleman, and he never pandered the way Gregoire has.
“Locke was briefly linked to the scandal over foreign contributions to President Bill Clinton’s 1996 campaign. In July 1998, he gave a deposition to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight about his relationships with questioned Clinton donors. But the committee subsequently said the deposition produced no evidence that Locke knowingly accepted illegal campaign donations.
Locke denied any wrongdoing, and he subsequently returned some checks tied to people implicated in the fundraising scandal, including $750 from John Huang. The former Commerce Department official was the Democratic Party’s chief fund raiser for the Asian-American population in the 1996 elections, and he became one of the central figures in the national Democratic Party fundraising scandal.
Also, in December 1997, Locke’s political committee was fined a maximum $2,500 by state regulators after it admitted breaking campaign finance laws during two out-of-state fundraisers in 1996.
And in March 1998, state investigators cleared Locke of wrongdoing following complaints that he unlawfully took $10,000 in campaign contributions from members of a Buddhist church.”
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090223/D96HI76G1.html