Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Oh yeah, the governor trial

So we're just two weeks away from the start of the trial to see if the governor was actually legitimately elected governor. At the center of all this are several hundred felons who should not have been voting but did. Oops.

The Republicans say no she wasn't. The main argument: felons who should not have voted did, and it's the fault of the boobs at the elections offices and all sorts of sloppy government workers. They got permission from the judge to use a system to show that if votes are to be deducted from final tallies (because we don't know who the felons voted for), then the votes should be deducted proportionately based on how the rest of the precinct voted. The judge said, heck, let's see what you can show.

The Democrats counter that she was. They say, sure, a bunch of felons probably voted improperly, but the votes should have been challenged at canvassing and now it's too late. They have their own secret list of felon-voters, several hundred, in fact. They aren't sharing the list, but they say most of the votes are from Red Rossi country. Take that, Repubs.

Today, former Gov. Gary Locke emerged from his "retirement" (retirement? he's like 50!) to say Rossi and the Republicans should drop all this nonsense and move on. Someone should have told him he was a late arrival to the party. But at least he's here.

And so, May 23, the eyes will focus on Wenatchee again, and we'll finally get started on the first stage of the last stage before we finally learn who was elected governor six months ago.

-- Wenatchee, Wash.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I retired several months ago so I could pursue my greatest passion at all times: reading the prophetic thoughts you post on this blog. Please forgive the lateness of this response.

Anonymous said...

Just recount until we win then stop. I find it odd that after each recount, Gregoire recieved more and more votes in her favor.

What's wrong with a revote? I'll tell you why you wouldn't approve. Because a lot of people who voted for gregoire think she's way too extreme, and if we had a revote, Rossi would win. A revote isn't nonsense either, it's a simple way out of this legal mess.

Dr Pezz said...

Sing along everyone to En Vogue's 90s hit :"Never gonna get it, never gonna get it, never get it!"

The crying continues. Rossi and the Republicans didn't care about incorrect votes while they were ahead, but now it matters. Boo-hoo! The time limit has expired on contesting votes.

I wonder if the Reps will want to allow the votes Dems found incorrectly used as well. Evens out in the end.