Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

[Seattle]

ehhh.... I'm not a fan of Kucinich and we have plenty of local politicians who could probably fit the new 10th better than he could.

[Seattle]

Kind of a random question, but has all-mail voting grown on anyone?

I don't know why everyone hates it.... it saves money and creates suspence in those to close to call elections

[Seattle]

Hmmmm..... Kucinich will be back here tomorrow to "support" a rally in Seattle to close tax loopholes against Chase, so that teachers don't have to get layed off, etc, etc.

[Seattle]

Lol, Im sure Aaron Dixon will try....

[Seattle]

Lol, Im sure Aaron Dixon will try....

What makes you say that? I haven't really seen much from him since 2006

He's one of the types that would do it. Im not saying he will, but I wouldn't be surprised. In fact, I know who his campaign manager was (or whatever its called), maybe he has some insight.

[Seattle]

Looks like Reichert already has a challenger in the form of state rep, Roger Goodman. He apparently live in Kirkland? I'm not sure how that works because that's in the first and if anything, he'll probably be in the first next election even if lives in Bellevue.....

Anyway he is running on a platform of legalizing medical pot dispenseries.

[Seattle]

It'd be nice to have a democrat female congressional democrat.... I wonder who will try to go up against Herrera?

[Seattle]

bahaha..... Gregoire, "hasn't made a decision about whether to run for re-election next year".

 http://www.komonews.com/news/local/123275458.html

She can't honestly think she'll win...... even if her approval ratings have now "moved up" in to the 30's.

[Seattle]

This election won't feel right without Dino Rossi running.

Maria still needs an opponent...

How 'close' would that make the election?

[Seattle]

^ Yeah, that's a pretty bad article. Sonntag got 70-something percent in 2008? Really? Try 63.5%.

Lol, he must have quoted Wikipedia.

[Seattle]

State Representative Bruce Dammeier (a rising Republican star) is running for Jim Kastama's State Senate seat. While this is extremely bad news in terms of holding the seat, the good news is that Dammeier definitely won't be running for Congress now. Yay!

Which seat would that be? and where would he run for congress?

[Seattle]

When do the proposals come out? The community input should be done or just about done by now.

[Seattle]

McKenna has raised 600K in June, pretty good start, Inslee has not released his figures yet.http://www.komonews.com/news/local/124890639.html

I'm sooooooo looking forward to being bombarded by both gubernatorial, congressional, and presidential ads come 2012.....

[Seattle]

Not that having Democratic control of the State Senate is really worth anything given what happened last session...

Well, what else could they have done other than cut spending....? The public rejected any form of tax increase....

[Seattle]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2015870631_kennewick_candidate_threatens.html

wtf

Incredibly disturbing.... Does he value life that lowly....

[Seattle]

We have illegal immigrants, yes, especially in the Yakima and Tri-Cities area. I wouldn't say that's a "problem" though. They keep the economy running out there.

I meant on par with say California or other places in the Southwest, where there is a lot of pressure on public services because of it. I know the farming industry basically relies on them nowadays, so it doesn't surprise me too much that there are many in Yakima, but I never really hear anything in the news about a Washington state Jan Brewer like figure, so I haven't really associated illegal immigration as a major issue with Washingtonians.

That's because we like to keep our crazy republicans as far away from the governorship as possible.

More like, the Washington state Republican party knows they won't have the slightest chance of ever catching the governorship if they ran a far right candidate.

[Seattle]

So by what margin is the tunnel authorization thing going to fail by today?

And more importantly: does it matter?

Lol. I wish they'd just build something. I'm not fan of the tunnel, but honestly, were playing a very dangerous game.....

[Seattle]

lol. goodspaceguy. I'd vote for him

[Seattle]

Even including Alaska?

[Seattle]

I have a theory.
Howard Schultz recently has been asserting himself as a businessman 'above the fray' and has urged for a bipartisan deal on the debt debate. Any chance he is positioning himself and getting name recognition to run as Bloomberg's veep with that unity '08 clone party?

Doubtful. He's a latte liberal in the disguise of a corporate boss.

[Seattle]

Lol, I actually vividly remember the time around 12:40, and I felt absolutely nothing. Most people who felt it where in buildings of 4-5+ stories.

[Seattle]

Okay, redistricting was a bust, now can we have another poll, please!

[Seattle]

Okay, redistricting was a bust, now can we have another poll, please!

You can vote for Washington on PPP's website for their next poll.

Done, thanks!

[Seattle]

Wow, weird results. 54% for gay marriage! That's surprising.

[Seattle]

Who are the rumored Republicans likely to run for the new WA-10?

Im not sure, but once we find out where the new district will be (which is going to be shortly), I'm sure someone will announce.