Other than some early morning soccer games, I watched the first night of Olympics last night, pushing these thoughts to the front. From one of the best political books I’ve read: For those concerned about democracy and freedom in our world, there is no more important place than China. …A decisive step by China onto…
Month: August 2008
Oh, that Pam Pugel!
Joe Nilsson, via email: Folks, I’m sure many have seen the BIAW front group’s anti-Christine ads focused on transportation. They feature a woman, identified as Pam Pugel, talking about living on a tight budget and slamming the Governor on taxes and transportation. All is not as it seems. Googling Mrs. Pugel and a little net…
On citizen journalism and this blog
Chill out indeed: Do you make any effort whatsoever to gather facts before you make statements, or do you just type whatever pops into your head? Because the leaders of the opponents to the rezone, people like Bonnie Jacobs, Bob Jacobs, Thad Curtz, Barbara Gooding, etc., were certainly not participants in the Port protests. There’s…
So called “frivolous” lawsuit upheld by State Supreme Court
Hey, R. Scott, frivolous (and here, here) lawsuits don’t get upheld by the State Supreme Court (even partially): We affirm the Court of Appeals in part and reverse in part. We hold a party may challenge a county’s failures to revise aspects of a comprehensive plan that are directly affected by new or recently amended…
Interesting Reading at Washington Independents blog
Not really sure what to make of this blog, other than its written by three pseudonyms and sometimes comes out with something interesting. Recently two posts on Gregoire, one on the race in general and another focusing on GMAP. I was hoping to write two separate posts responding, but I couldn’t quite get my hands…
RE: Political Parties Reap What They Sow
You can’t pull at the edges of our electoral system and not expect the voters to react: The Republicans and the Democrats are also complaining about Initiative 872. Well, that is just two bad for these political parties. They are now reaping what they sowed. They took away the right of the people to vote…
“they should be working to make all citizens more political”
Nafzblog writes about the flip side of the Monica Goodling effect: In 1992, after the Clinton election, I flew to Washington D.C. with Governor Booth Gardner who met with four western governors to discuss cabinet posts with Clinton’s transition team. Cecil Andrus, Carter Interior Secretary and Governor of Idaho described his frustration in trying to…
Except they don’t explain WHY the builders are going after Robin Hunt
So, the Olympian points out builders money going into the Appeals Court races between Robin Hunt and Tim Ford (whose signs look a lot like John McCain’s, btw). The three cases that the builders are trying to highlight have nothing to do with their typical common refrain of environmental protections being overboard. They’re a public…