Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

[MaxQue]

Knowledge Bowl. I'm happy than I googled that. I discovered than this was almost the same thing than ''Génies en herbe'' in Quebec.

I already was a provincial champion of that. Sure, the format is very different, but that is very cool to win against those private big cities schools when you come from a medium sided rural town with a public school.

Very good work on those maps. I have a question. Indian reservations vote for which party?

[MaxQue]

Why has Brad Owen been the Lt. Governor for so long?

No Democrat is going to challenge him and the Republicans are incapable of nominating non-joke candidates for the office. And even if they did manage to get a respectable candidate it's very difficult to make the case for throwing out a Lt. Governor. There's nothing you can really attack them on because they don't really do anything.

Owen will be Lt. Governor for the rest of his life if he wants to, and I think that's exactly his plan.

Owen's the shortest serving Democratic Lieutenant Governor in state history. lol.

Yes, he served longer than any Republican Lieutenant Governor. That is especially funny because there was only 3 Democratic Lieutenant Governors, while there was 11 Republican Lieutenant Governors.

[MaxQue]

Why have we had so many odd, violent crimes recently? Argh.

Well, economical crisises raise the number of people who are killing their family and then kill themselves, but I don't see a reason for a raise in attacks on policemen.

[MaxQue]

Something totally random: Not a single Republican filed for any of the county offices in Pacific County. What a great place.

http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/pacific/elections/Pages/CandidateFilings.aspx

Well, you can't declare wars like Republicans do, if you are Pacific....

[MaxQue]

Kirby is a real first name?

[MaxQue]

John Milem, a Vancouver man who was basically the redistricting committee's vigilante roadie, was thanked by the commissioners after the process finished and is now petitioning for the Supreme Court to strike it down.

Vancouver, WA?

[MaxQue]

Why DelBene try so hard? She changed districts and runs against someone else than Reichert?

[MaxQue]

I found that article about the Republicanspirit lady: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/06/28/leslie-klein-im-running-to-represent-only-people-not-planets. Worrying.

Micah Anderson, the candidate of the Framer Party is the founder and was the President of the Hashford Compassion Club in Tacoma in 2011. (so, a pot guy).

Centralist is Ronnie Rae, a criminal law defence attorney in Spokane. He ran for District Judge for Stevens County in 2010 and badly lost.

Human Rights Party (http://thehumanrightsparty.org/) claims principles from a Stéphane Hessel essay (for a bio of Stéphane Hessel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Hessel).

[MaxQue]

That explains why I received an email from him, while living in Quebec. I was very shocked. I apologize to Mr. Anderson if he was offended and wish him good luck for the August 5th election.

[MaxQue]

If Jayapal and/or Teachout is elected, the dems need to make it clear that they are not welcome due to their socialist views. Don't put them on any committees period and endorse a high profile primary challenger for 2018. Tell primary voters that if they don't vote for this challenger, that they are a highly dangerous traitor to the party and to the country that should go beg the local police to punish them for their actuon

Well, as Democrats are not fascists, they won't do that.