Rossi Makes Slick Move

Associated Press Wire ^ | 29 Dec 04 | Associated Press Wire

[fidelio]

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Republican Dino Rossi says he's asked Democrat Christine Gregoire to join him in asking the Legislature to pass a bill allowing a statewide revote in the governor's race.

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[goldstategop]

Let the voters decide. Hold a REVOTE - make every vote COUNT!

[goldstategop]

No - this is different. There's vote fraud in King County. And Republican ballots have been invalidated, disqualified or thrown in the trash. We can't trust the results. 100 votes plus for Christine Grigoire out of nowhere? C'mon!

[goldstategop]

How is allowing the people the opportunity to settle the issue decisively as to who they want for their Governor disenfranchising them? If anything, I would imagine if the Democrats were confident Grigoire could win with an undisputed mandate, it would be in the interest to hold a fair vote. It isn't a do-over since NO ONE knows who actually won. There are two legitimate claimants to the office. If the Ukraine can hold a clean and fair election, so can WA State.

[allmyheroeshavebeencowboys]

I just wrote to my State Legislators asking that they support a revote. I'm ready to be a part of that grass roots challenge, so how do we gather and organize? Lets do this everyone in Washington.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

A re-vote is the only idea that works for us. The rest of the state doesn't want to - and shouldn't have to - live with this corrupted King County result, and unless Gregoire agrees to this, the level of resentment against her will be unbelievable.

I want the re-vote. Bad. And I live here.

[BJungNan]

There is no way a race should be decided on so few votes. They need to put a minimum margin of victory in place or a re-vote takes place. And only those registered at the time of the first election eligible to vote.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Lets make enough noise to make this happen. We need the public to see if she really wants a fair recount or not. If not lets see how she does in the next election.

USAforUSA

[GipperGirl]

The media is as criminal as most of the powerful Democrats ROSSI won.....The RE=VOTE should take place~!
By the way, did you see where the DEMOCRAT CEO of Fannie Mae just resigned in scandal for "accounting discrepancies" His reward for 5 years of incompetence was a severance package of $100,000 a month for life! All on the tax payers dollar!
The CEO is Frank Raines (Clinton appointee) also has ties to Jamie Gorelick from the joke 9-11 comission!
CONSERVATIVES MUST BE WILLING TO FIGHT EVERY BATTLE~
The Republican won in Seattle ~ Don't let the DEMOCRATS steal another election ~!

[anniegetyourgun]

Well, this is an interesting move. I suppose it forces her hand on the "count every vote" issue she claims to hold so dear. It also puts her on notice that Rossi camp is able and willing to pull down the pants of the "D" party in court, so she might want to avoid that embarassment.

My only question is, even if she joined him, why would anyone assume that the WA state legislature would go for it? There are not the votes, eh?

[Hostage]

Good question. It's been said that Gregoire will announce she is for the revote after she is first told in secret that legislators will vote the revote bill down.

It's a grim situation since King County democrats control the election of governor and the democrat state legislature controls the revote authorization. The local media is also in control of democrats.

So if a mountain of evidence comes in that points to fraud and a judge has no option other than to annul the election results, the question will be what excuses will the democrat legislature use to vote down the revote bill?

A good guess is that the democrats will first delay the request for public records and then attack the credibility of the evidence for fraud.

Dino Rossi's campaign lawyers must check the veracity of every shred of evidence because it is not beyond the democrats to insert a poison pill into the evidence list and then use it to destroy the credibility of all other evidence.

It eventually all depends on Dino Rossi's case against King County and how the media report it.

[MeekOneGOP]

Go, Rossi!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Yea, but people took to the streets BEFORE they agreed to hold a revote. Get out there and protest. It helped in FL, too.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

You're on to something and you must demand prosecutions. We need prosecutions all over this country to bring this process back to something the people trust.

[Non-Sequitur]

If the situation were reversed what would his answer be to a similar request from her. Be honest now.

[showme_the_Glory]

I lived in Washington until 2002. I have since voted in 2 Texas elections already. Shortly after voting in the Texas early election in October, I received a State of Washington mail-in ballot. So did my wife. We both grinned at each other and then destroyed the ballots. I wonder how many of those sent out to other states are actually cast?????

[Flux Capacitor]

----Thats slick? Why would anyone go for that? I want Rossi to win but thats like be like Bush asking Gore in 2000 to revote New Mexico becuase he only lost by a few hundred votes. Not really a good idea.----

Even if you were to discount everything we have seen coming out of Washington State over the past eight weeks -- and this is indeed one of the most open, up-front, unashamed, and hubristic examples of Democrat election theft in history (the Republicans are going on a "fishing expedition"???), the comparison to New Mexico doesn't hold.

If you'll recall, many on the left were demanding a statewide revote of Florida in 2000 -- and only Florida. You cannot do that in a presidential election. Even if there were a Constitutional provision for revoting in a presidential election, you most certainly could not limit that revote to only one state, as that would be a clear equal-protection violation. (The equal-protection question was the reason the S.C. got involved in the first place.) Bush could not have asked for a New Mexico revote; besides, since he's not a Democrat, he doesn't subscribe to the practice of demanding recount after recount under constantly-shifting counting practices until he finds a way to win.

Washington state, if I understand correctly, does provide for the possibility of a statewide revote and it is the ONLY way to remedy this hopelessly-screwed election. If Gregoire clearly wins the revote, fine. But Washingtonians deserve to know one way or another that they are being governed by the consent of a majority of the people, as a result of a free and fair election conducted under open scrutiny and consistent, statewide standards.

-Dan

[Flux Capacitor]

----If the situation were reversed what would his answer be to a similar request from her. Be honest now.----

Gregoire did not win both the initial count AND the machine recount. Rossi did not eke out a win on the THIRD count by discovering a whole bunch of new, unsecured ballots in a closet somewhere, in a Republican stronghold in which there were more votes cast than there are registered voters, nor did the election shift to him via a count conducted in such a Republican county under a different standard than every other county in the state; indeed, under a standard that was changed in the middle of recounting.

There is no equivalence here.

-Dan

[RockinRight]

Why would he lose by a large margin?

[Dave S]

It isn't a do-over since NO ONE knows who actually won. There are two legitimate claimants to the office. If the Ukraine can hold a clean and fair election, so can WA State.

As of right now the Republican secretary of state has certified the Dem the winner so apparently the officials of the state know who won.

The Ukraine first got their top court to declare the prior election void because of fraud. That hasnt happened in WA and until it does there is no rationale in law for revote.

[RtWngr]

Agreed. The only thing RATS hang on to tighter than their money is power once they get it. She's not going anywhere and she certainly is not going to agree to this. Her response: "I'll agree when Bush agrees to a re-vote."