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« Reply #650 on: January 05, 2009, 12:58:43 AM »

Bill Grant died yesterday morning.  RIP, by all accounts a good man.
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« Reply #651 on: January 05, 2009, 01:12:15 AM »

Very sad news. Grant has been a leader in the Legislature for more than two decades.
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« Reply #652 on: January 05, 2009, 10:29:00 PM »

If these rumors about Gregoire and the Commerce Secretary turn out to be true then I will seriously consider killing myself out of disgust and depression.
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« Reply #653 on: January 05, 2009, 10:32:00 PM »

Stranger interview with Gregoire spokeswoman:

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« Reply #654 on: January 05, 2009, 10:35:12 PM »

She would be an odd choice for Commerce Secretary...
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« Reply #655 on: January 05, 2009, 10:37:27 PM »

The other position she might be pursuing is Number 2 at the Justice Department or something.

For the record, Lt. Governor Brad Owen does not have a bachelor's degree.
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« Reply #656 on: January 05, 2009, 10:38:52 PM »

I've always had a feeling Owen has just been holding on to that seat for as long as possible and hoping that something would eventually happen. Much easier than getting directly elected, I suppose...
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« Reply #657 on: January 05, 2009, 10:47:30 PM »

but Owen is not very... intelligent.
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« Reply #658 on: January 05, 2009, 10:49:15 PM »

The whole DC trip could just be to announce the stimulus for state budgets that she's been trying to get. Doesn't fully explain why she'd be so secretive and why her staff wouldn't confirm that she'd still be Governor. Maybe just to build up hype.
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« Reply #659 on: January 05, 2009, 11:01:27 PM »

August 2009 Primary results:

Rossi: 26%
McKenna: 23%
Sonntag: 21%
Inslee: 17%
Owen: 14%

Top-two! Top-two!

I need alcohol...
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« Reply #660 on: January 05, 2009, 11:11:44 PM »

August 2009 Primary results:

Rossi: 26%
McKenna: 23%
Sonntag: 21%
Inslee: 17%
Owen: 14%

Top-two! Top-two!

I need alcohol...

Well, at least Rossi would lose in a landslide...
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« Reply #661 on: January 05, 2009, 11:13:34 PM »

Actually, thinking about it a bit more, I suspect Owen would choose to just run for Lt. Governor again. Unless this has been some sort of secret desire of his for a while. I've never really gotten that impression though.
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« Reply #662 on: January 05, 2009, 11:17:00 PM »

The next Dixie Lee?
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« Reply #663 on: January 05, 2009, 11:18:03 PM »

August 2009 Primary results:

Rossi: 26%
McKenna: 23%
Sonntag: 21%
Inslee: 17%
Owen: 14%

Top-two! Top-two!

I need alcohol...

49% Republican in a primary? Really? I doubt that.
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« Reply #664 on: January 05, 2009, 11:19:47 PM »

August 2009 Primary results:

Rossi: 26%
McKenna: 23%
Sonntag: 21%
Inslee: 17%
Owen: 14%

Top-two! Top-two!

I need alcohol...

49% Republican in a primary? Really? I doubt that.


Perhaps not, but throw in one or two more Democrats who draw 3 or 4% of the vote...
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« Reply #665 on: January 06, 2009, 12:31:59 AM »

Atlantic says it's not true:

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« Reply #666 on: January 06, 2009, 12:38:46 AM »

Dwight Pelz also says that she isn't headed to Commerce.

I'm 90% sure at this point it's something about the stimulus.
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« Reply #667 on: January 06, 2009, 01:48:39 AM »

This was a pretty brilliant media roll out by Gregoire's people. Every local blog and newspaper site has been buzzing with this, the local newscasts and radio broadcasts are leading with it, and it'll get stories in Tuesday's and Wednesday's paper. Not to mention the limited national attention it's been getting as well.
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« Reply #668 on: January 06, 2009, 02:18:59 AM »

I feel like it is going to be the release of the stimulus package tied to the viaduct as part of the infrastructure piece of the "new", new deal.
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« Reply #669 on: January 06, 2009, 03:51:00 AM »
« Edited: January 06, 2009, 03:57:25 AM by Ogre Mage »

I feel like it is going to be the release of the stimulus package tied to the viaduct as part of the infrastructure piece of the "new", new deal.

I suspect this to be the case as well.  Gregoire, Nickels and Sims delayed their decision AGAIN on the Alaska Way Viaduct until early 2009, which makes me speculate they are holding out for federal funding.  This is especially possible since Patty Murray chairs the Appropriations subcommittee funding the Dept. of Transportation.  Perhaps she and President-elect Obama will deliver manna from heaven for the viaduct.

After the Democrats won back the Congress in 2006, Mayor Nickels asked Sen. Murray for $10 BILLION dollars for the viaduct ($1 billion per year for 10 years).  LOL.  Not even Robert Byrd could get that kind of money -- at least not under President Bush.
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« Reply #670 on: January 06, 2009, 10:34:48 AM »

She's just going to Iraq. Nothing to see here, kids; move along...
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« Reply #671 on: January 06, 2009, 10:39:54 AM »
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Why did she have to scare us like that? I was having Owenmares all night.
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« Reply #672 on: January 06, 2009, 12:13:20 PM »

Staff is saying the DOD wouldn't let them tell. I'm suspicious.
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« Reply #673 on: January 07, 2009, 07:35:29 AM »

I didn't realize that Adam Smith's opponent was this crazy:

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« Reply #674 on: January 07, 2009, 03:52:25 PM »

Postma is actually the sort of candidate that I'm surprised didn't cause a small embarrassment for the GOP.  He isn't super-crazy, but he's one of those people who is convinced that reality is about 3 points further to the political right than it actually is.

I've head that he called Smith "capable" in public and privately said he suspected Smith had "communist leanings," lol.

I think the WAGOP's criteria this year was mostly "non-Paulite."
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