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February 12, 2008

WA Gov - Day 3 Where's Dino Rossi?

PK readers will remember the extensive work that Carla (currently Netroots Coordinator for the Jeff Merkley for Senate campaign) put into fleshing out the facts of Dino Rossi's allegations that Christine Gregoire (Dem and current Goobernator) hadn't won the 2004 election - she did, fair and square.

Flash forward to this past weekend's primary caucuses and once again there is controversy over votes in a Washington state election. This time it's Huckabee complaining because RPW chairman Luke Esser stopped the count when 87% of the returns were in and declared McCain the winner.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, a Washington State precinct committee officer in one of the rural areas of the state, complained bitterly on a National Review blog about Esser stopping the count before her precinct had been counted.

There are a number of things wrong with the WA caucus.

One is that me and a number of people from my community took valuable time out of our Saturday to go and caucus. Then, when I call the state party office I am told that the declaration was made even though they did not get the official results from "some people" in the rural areas who may be sending the results in via snail mail.

Aaarrgghhh... I said... That would be me!

So my question to the party was whether or not we should have even shown up to caucus? I mean I expect that the good folks in Seattle would dearly love to have us show up on the second Tuesday in November. Considering we are likely to have a knock down drag out rematch between Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Christine Gregiore.

When in 2004 there was the faintest suggestion of votes that hadn't been counted Dino Rossi was all over it like a bug on stink! Now with this latest controversy being a GOP-only affair the silence coming from the Rossi campaign (he's once again challenging Gregoire for Goobernator) is deafening.

At least some Dem bloggers in Washington are noting the irony of inept GOP vote counting in light of the Rossi/Gregoire dust-up in 2004.

Isn't it ironic, that in the political year of Dino Rossi's "comeback," Republicans are having a hard time counting votes. Maybe they didn't realize how hard it was.

So where the hell is Dino Rossi now? How does he justify his shrill allegations of Republican voters being disenfranchised in 2004 while seemingly struck dumb in 2008? Why should Huckabee have to threaten a law suit against the Republican Party of Washington to force votes to be counted if, as Rossi would have us believe, it's Democrats in Washington who don't play fair?

I think Rossi has some 'splainin' to do...

Posted by Kevin at February 12, 2008 09:10 AM