Those guys at the lets-hate-judges blogosphere keep on keeping it on. Now, truther says that maybe if judges get beat up, things will be better: Taking away their security force is an excellent way to reform the unlawful and out of control family court. Think about it. Would little Paula Casey arrogantly and abusively disparage,…
Month: December 2008
Jeff Dickison writes back
Answering this via email (by the way, I work with Jeff): 1. Thurston County is badly in need of county government reorganization. The question quickly becomes “what is the best way to accomplish this outcome”? While I would love to see a new charter put before the county voters, the current constitutionally provided option has…
My questions for the applicants (and Russ Lehman’s response)
I emailed a couple of questions to four applicants for the open county commission seat I’m considering right now (Russ Lehman, Karen Valenzula, Jeff Dickison and Walt Jorgenson). They were about the possibility of home rule and how they feel about the county’s frightfully bad website and about blogging as an elected (or appointed in…
Jim Lazar’s list of who gave to who (open county commish seat)
Ken has the scoop on local good guy Jim Lazar’s list of which county commission applicants gave to which candidates since 2000. Some gave to some non-Democrats, which might not look good to the party faithful who will do the whittling down: Erik Landaas Kevin J. O’Sullivan $300 6/5/2006 Kevin J. O’Sullivan $50 7/30/2006 Corinne…
Rich Nafiziger, state Democratic senate caucus chief of staff and blog father
To me, there’s a striking resemblance between former Olympia school board member Richard Nafziger’s on-again-off-again blog and the new blog of the state Senate Democrats (mostly penned by majority leader Lisa Brown). Makes a lot of sense for Nafziger to be Brown’s blog father, but the similar blogging styles almost makes you think that its…
To Berd Whitlock: Triage sucks but its real
Berd wrote over at the Olympian: There are some substantial differences between the battle between a Citizen’s Group and the Port of Tacoma over Rocky Prairie; and the battle between Citizens’ Groups and the City of Olympia and Developer Triway Enterprises over the downtown Olympia “isthmus.” But there are a lot of similarities. Similar sets…