Month: August 2006

Ken has a great post on what has been so good about the Open Mike! tour: 1. Mike! is open to a $28 million golden parachute/ campaign contribution from his former employer Safeco (which is now getting him sued). 2. Mike! is open to selling out to Ted Stevens and Big Oil to drill in…

Netroots as a word doesn’t imply liberal, progressive or big D Democratic. As a word outside any context it means “wired grassroots.” It could imply any type of political affiliation from socialist to anarchist. But in the past year or so it has shed any non-partisan meaning it have once held and attached itself firmly…

In attacking Maria Cantwell on her vote yesterday on the bait and switch minimum wage vote, Mike! McGavick referenced a letter from the Department of Labor: Contrary to Sen. Cantwell’s claim, the bill would not lower the wages of employees receiving tips below Washington state’’s minimum wage of $7.63 an hour. In response to Democrat…

Well, because you can’t talk about female politicians without being the least bit sexist (or just a bit insulting), to start off: …you can probably look for these two to respond with the intelligence of hung over sorority girls faking being awake at an 8:00 am history class without having read the assigned chapters. But,…

Peter Ashdown is the Democratic candidate running against the seemingly unstoppable Sen. Orin Hatch of Utah. Ashdown would likely be a side note in a very interesting year for Western upstarts taking Repblicans if it wasn’t for Ashdown doing something very interesting. At the start of his campaign, Ashdown started a campaign wiki, asking folks…

I probably should have taken some wonderful advice from a commenter and emailed Gary Locke a few weeks ago. Now that a lawsuit has been filed, how many folks think he would email me back with a “Oh, Hey Emmett…. Well, the reason I voted (didn’t vote) to give McGavick a big chunk of change…

Reichart votes to allow our sale tax rebate ($500 million for Washingtonians) to be held hostage by the estate tax. I know he can claim he was voting for our sales tax rebate, along with a minimum wage increase, but it also speaks to his willingness to go along with the Republican leadership’s sneakiness. Of…