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January 24, 2005

WA Governor race:The mystery of Rossi's list grows deeper

In a post last week, I mentioned I spoke with Chris Hanzeli. Hanzeli is assistant to Mary Lane, who is the spokesperson for failed Washington Gubernatorial Candidate Dino Rossi.

Most of my conversation with Hanzeli had to do with a list of 260 complaints from military/overseas voters who said they didn't receive their absentee ballots. Hanzeli didn't know where the whole list was, but he was in charge of "60-65" complaints from that list. Hanzelli told me specifically about "3-4" people from the 81st Striker Brigade serving in Iraq who were the only ones in their group not to get their state's absentee ballot.

This morning I spoke again with Lt. Col. Steve Boylan of the Coalition Press Information Center in Baghdad. Lt. Col Boyland had never heard of the 81st Striker Brigade and to his knowledge, no such animal exists.

It's possible that Hanzelli meant the 81st Infantry Brigade. But what's odd is that he was alledgedly reading to me over the phone from his list. How exactly is Hanzelli supposed to assist these people when he doesn't know the correct name of their unit? Or was he really reading to me from a list at all?

I'm becoming more and more skeptical of the existence of this mystery list all the time.

Posted by Carla at January 24, 2005 08:01 AM