Month: October 2006

He can put out negative, untrue ads. But, he can’t take true negative ads. He gets all bunchy about Mike Rechner’s new ad: A Democratic challenger’s televised blasting of Rep. Richard DeBolt, the state House Republican Leader from Chehalis, has grabbed some attention in Thurston County. … DeBolt said the ad has a “negative, nasty…

Groan. I know she was talking about Sharkansky, hell I wouldn’t want to take questions from Sharkansky. Justice Susan Owens should have said something to that effect, that she just didn’t like the person asking the questions. Instead she ended up sounding snobbish and elitist, to say the least. Uninformed is getting a bit more…

As election day continues (since most of us got our ballots more than a week ago, is there really an election “day”?), we continue to see the polling on 933 drop through the floor. For the first time, the No responses beat out the Yes responses. Even on the better question for “yes.” See here…

Election Day is only just over a week away, so there wasn’t much for me to do except for create some Election Day Bingo 2006 cards. I did up two, which pretty much cover the interesting House, Senate and Governor races (except Virginia in the Senate races) and some local stuff. Two sets of cards,…

Norm does his part and so does Jay. Now, even though Jay Inslee doesn’t meet the criteria laid out by Chris Bowers in the “Use it or Lose It” campaign (opponents with less than $10k spent), he gets credit for sending his money where it will do the most good. Is it worth it to…

This is a thought I’ve had running through my head since a few Thanksgivings ago. Why on the day after Thanksgiving, a free Friday for most of us, is our public life pretty much closed down? I mean all the stores are open, duh, but everything else, libraries, museums are closed. I don’t like shopping…

Randy at Ridenbaugh press has a well intentioned post about a restoration of the initiative process. He says we should ban paying signature gatherers. Just like we can’t force spending or contribution limits onto initiative campaigns, we also can’t ban paying signature gatherers. We might be able to ban paid per signature model, but not…

Getting kind of sensitive over the one big rich guy, Howie Rich, is funding their campaign, Yes on 933 bites back. Yes on 933 sent out an email yesterday that keeps in the front of your mind just how outside the truth box they need to go to make a point. The headline starts with…

Not a lot going on that was interesting, short of the start of the budget writing process. What I like though is the idea of Participatory budgeting.

I can’t go, but everyone else should feel free to rub elbows with our next Rep.