Replies

I wish the press would quit quoting Brett Bader, he is a, has been wash up. Everybody saw what he did for the Carlson campaign. His only claim to fame is Dan Evans. Bader is nothing but a shyster, but seems to get work like pro R-51. Look at the money behind the R-51 crowd, now look, and see WHO IS NOT CONTRIBUTING to the state party. There is a war going on and Chris is caught in the middle.

Makes me wish Don Benton were back, do not get me wrong Chris is doing his best in a difficult situation. I really blame the central committee for putting up with the crap. The central committee has the authority to run the party and determine its direction. They voted twice to move the party to Olympia; guess what they have not even tried to move. Yes I know the excuses about not being able to get out of the lease.

When is our central committee going to wake up and clean house?

Nation wide, republican donations are coming from individual small donors. In this state, the grassroots is ignored until campaign season. Don Benton tried to change that and he is gone. The WSRP is useless; the state senate campaign committee has more money than the State Party does.

When is our central committee going to wake up and clean house?

Once they get tired of being the RATS lap-dogs and once they stop being happy with the little crumbs the RATS leave them for being a good, tame minority party.

The RATS have so many under-the-table and downright underhanded deals going on because they've now single-handedly controlled state government for a generation.

Here's just one of them: The State Investment Board (Currently made up of 9 RAT voting members and one Republican -- West, who's only been on the Board since January and has been sick the entire time) controls contracts with private investment managers for billions of dollars (some $45 billion to be precise -- 2/3 of all the assets controlled by the state government). And the new executive director of the SIB (a former chief of staff to Locke and dept. head under Clinton) is running around to every one of these managers with this message from Locke and Gregoire: "start bringing that money into the party coffers or you won't do business here anymore".

And the managers do. Why submit to the strongarm? There's no opposition. And the state GOP is too damn stupid to look under the rock and blow the whistle on what's going on.

That's why they're going to keep losing statewide races from now till the world ends.