Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

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Some one has this in their sig;



How dreadfully, awfully 1950's can you get... I mean... urgh...

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I don't get what's 1950s about it. Is it the name "Dino" in handwriting? Maybe because he's sitting at a diner counter...? Other than that, I don't see it.

The haircut is one thing, obviously. So is the setting, so is the shirt (though there's no tie). But there's more to it than that; the typefaces seem very fifties (as does the colour of the lettering) and so do the colours in the photograph.

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  He's also almost not white.  The Barack Obama of Washington state!  For real.

Because he's part Eskimo and Italian? Ok...

Around here, that counts as almost not white.  He also has a funny name.  He's a foreigner, but we're tolerant of that.

You agree about the awful fiftiesness of that photothingy?

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Why did Gregoire do so badly in the south of the state [qm].

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Michael Hecht? Michael Hecht? What kind of a sick joke is this? I suppose that there's "something of the night about him"?

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Nickels came third? What'd he do to become so unpopular?

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So, to an extent, this is an example of Seattle's civic culture? Interesting.

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New SUSA polls:

REFERENDUM 71
Accept 45%
Reject 42%

I-1033
Yes 45%
No 35%

What are they votes on?

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So Washington has another waste of a Lt. Gov. office like Minnesota. There's a small movement in the Minn. legislature to abolish the Lt. Gov. option and let the Sec of State be next in succession but for some reason no one seems to want to get behind it. This is despite the current Lt. Gov. being basically the most unpopular political figure in state besides Michele Bachmann possibly (in a nutshell she was also Sec of Transportation due to Lt. Gov. being a nothing job, and became the scapegoat for the bridge collapse. The Senate thus refused to reapprove her as Sec of Transportation.)

How many states have a Lt. Governor with any duties? The only ones I can think of are Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah, where the Lt. Governor basically does the job of the Secretary of State.

In Texas the Lt. Governor has more power than the Governor.

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He should change his surname to "Bailey".

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Anyone would think you people had never had a conversation with a Trot before...