Gregoire's Theft A Fait Accompli
I've said it all year, I said it on election night, I said it after the machine recount, and I'll say it now: My fellow Washingtonians, get ready for Governor Gregiore.
Before the election I said it because no Republican had come within single-digits of the governor's mansion in a generation (1980, when then-King County Exec John Spellman was swept in on Ronald Reagan's coattails). On election night I was surprised to see Dino Rossi make such a good showing, but didn't expect that it would hold through the full count. I was dumbfounded to see his 261-vote victory at the end of it, but didn't expect that lead to survive the mandatory machine recount, especially given the fraud in which King County Dems were openly and already engaged. I was even more flabbergasted to see that Rossi was still ahead at the end of that, though not that his lead had shrunk to an incredible 42 votes.
He was even certified the winner and declared governor-elect yesterday.
But that will be his high-water mark. Dino will, regrettably, never make it to the governor's mansion.
State election law entitles Miss Gregoire to request a hand recount - partial or full - provided her campaign pays for it. Pleading poverty, naturally, the Dems have already declared their intention to request a partial recount, which will, of course, be conducted in their King County (Seattle) stronghold. If they can't fabricate another 43 votes there, I'll volunteer to be one of her palm-frond wavers (assuming I can get the time off from jury duty). Once Gregoire takes the lead, the state has to conduct a full hand recount, a method that everybody who isn't a Dem agrees is a far less reliable means and far more vulnerable to fraud. There's no way on Earth that Rossi can win such a recount (unless the GOP engages in the same tactics, which is unlikely in the extreme). And if he challenges that result in court (far from a certainty, given the supine docility of pachyderms in this state), well, there's not a judge in this state that isn't a Dem hack.
End result: get ready for Governor Gregoire. And with both houses of the state legislature having gone donk on November 2nd, don't expect her to govern modestly, either.
What's the moral of this story? Goreian insurrections will work - in one-party states.
And, perhaps, that Evergreen state Republicans will have to become their enemies in order to defeat them.
Before the election I said it because no Republican had come within single-digits of the governor's mansion in a generation (1980, when then-King County Exec John Spellman was swept in on Ronald Reagan's coattails). On election night I was surprised to see Dino Rossi make such a good showing, but didn't expect that it would hold through the full count. I was dumbfounded to see his 261-vote victory at the end of it, but didn't expect that lead to survive the mandatory machine recount, especially given the fraud in which King County Dems were openly and already engaged. I was even more flabbergasted to see that Rossi was still ahead at the end of that, though not that his lead had shrunk to an incredible 42 votes.
He was even certified the winner and declared governor-elect yesterday.
But that will be his high-water mark. Dino will, regrettably, never make it to the governor's mansion.
State election law entitles Miss Gregoire to request a hand recount - partial or full - provided her campaign pays for it. Pleading poverty, naturally, the Dems have already declared their intention to request a partial recount, which will, of course, be conducted in their King County (Seattle) stronghold. If they can't fabricate another 43 votes there, I'll volunteer to be one of her palm-frond wavers (assuming I can get the time off from jury duty). Once Gregoire takes the lead, the state has to conduct a full hand recount, a method that everybody who isn't a Dem agrees is a far less reliable means and far more vulnerable to fraud. There's no way on Earth that Rossi can win such a recount (unless the GOP engages in the same tactics, which is unlikely in the extreme). And if he challenges that result in court (far from a certainty, given the supine docility of pachyderms in this state), well, there's not a judge in this state that isn't a Dem hack.
End result: get ready for Governor Gregoire. And with both houses of the state legislature having gone donk on November 2nd, don't expect her to govern modestly, either.
What's the moral of this story? Goreian insurrections will work - in one-party states.
And, perhaps, that Evergreen state Republicans will have to become their enemies in order to defeat them.
posted by JASmius at 9:17 AM
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