January 2009 - Page 3 of 3

Chokehold

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Emmett O'Connell

From Jackie Barrett Sharar (via email) supporting Susan Bogni for the ye ol’open county commission seat: Susan has never ever come across the table at colleagues or attempt to put them in choke holds nor does she have a short fuse and doesn’t engage in demagoguery. We’ve disagreed but I have never ever found Susan…

Not bad online forum by Thurston Democrat

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Emmett O'Connell

Ken Camp arranged an online forum this afternoon intended to include several of the applicants for the open county commission seat and some PCOs. Not a bad discussion. I’ve sort of been waiting for this.

Where the Seahawks score found me

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Emmett O'Connell

I put this as a note on my shared items, but I think it is worth repeating: I didn’t watch the end of the game, and from clicking around this morning I hadn’t found a score yet. A personal blog I read, though, tells me the score with some observations. You may think that bloggingvabout…

The shrinking Washington State liberal blogosphere

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Emmett O'Connell

Evergreen Politics is going the way of Pike Place Politics, Blog Reload Olyscoop and Better Donkey, and I’ve been meaning to write a post about where things have been going in the liberal political blogosphere around here. Things aren’t like they were in 2004. Yeah, there are a handful of new blogs out there (Spokane…

Sexually harassed former employees already cost Thurston County $3 million

Posted on January 2, 2009 by Emmett O'Connell

Maybe if those women hadn’t sued, the new chair of the Thurston County Republicans might be wondering this morning, we wouldn’t have needed to fire all those security guards. Thing is ( I never get tired of mentioning this) you don’t blame the victim for costing the county when the county loses a big lawsuit….