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bloo bloo bloo our side doesn't have a monopoly on state politics for once bloooooooo
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This demonstrates the idiocy of voting people in solely because of a letter they put after their names. "Vote for Democrats or the Republicans will win!" That sure worked out well.
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might i suggest that the democratic party give both these gentlemen the boot?
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You don't call a rattlesnake a "turncoat" when it bites you. What do rattlesnakes do?

Blame our sad sack Democrats for handing over $25,000 to this weasel. When will they learn?
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This is why I come to the Stranger for my news: the level headed, just-the-facts-ma'am objective reporting, free of the hyperbole that we've grown accustomed to in our current sensationalist media.
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Shouldn't the headline read "turncoat pigfuckers Tom and Shelton"? Rodney and Tom are the same pigfucker.
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@5) Not to mention the pigf#@king!
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The fart-huffing shitshow the KC Dems had this weekend pretty much tells you all you need to know about the prospects of ousting Tom.
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If Pelz didn't see this coming, it's because he has his head up his ass. Maybe he was too busy denouncing Darcy Burner for her criticism of some of Obama's right-wing policies. This seems to be the nature of the Democratic Party: they do everything they can to shut down progressives while supporting right-wing douchebags like Rodney Tom... and then they cry about the outcome.
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I have a feeling Pam Roach is the misplaced Jenga block in this whole charade.
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@6, right you are! Thanks so much for the correction.
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Obama has no right wing policies its Burner with her head up her ass.
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@ 10 That because Obama is what right with the party, people like Tom are too right and people like Burner are too left.
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@11 FTW
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Yeah, I might have some sympathy for Pelz if Sheldon was a newbie. But he's been who he is for the past twenty fucking years!!! It's the old, "Fool me once..." routine.

Pelz & the rest of the WA state Dems are monumental asshats for allowing the Farce That Is Sheldon to continue for this long. The only thing I can think of that comes close to reasoned thinking from them on this is that they somehow couldn't just tell him to get lost, so they used the "Give him enough rope" strategy, and now they can indignantly accuse him. But my money is them just being stupid, the victims of wishful thinking/stockholm syndrome. That's been the Dem MO for a long time now...
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"Progressives," I'll say the same thing to you as I've been saying to the butthurt wingnuts who can't believe that the Kenyan Muslim communists just got re-elected.

Tough shit. Stop crying, you pissants. You're not nearly as popular as you think you are, nor do you deserve to be. Now, to be Washington-specific, look at I-1185. It won in every county in the state. We don't want "progressive" tax increases, or one-party rule.

If you don't like it, move you whining asses to California. Otherwise, shut the fuck up and listen to the people who are laughing in your faces right now.
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Mr. G RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDEEEEEE in the heezy. True dat.
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For those of you who don't agree with Rodney Tom or Tim Sheldon, send them an e-mail telling them so! http://www.leg.wa.gov/senate/senators/pa…
http://www.leg.wa.gov/senate/senators/pa…
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When was the last time Sen. Sheldon actually received money or support from the Washington State Democratic Party? I don't believe, with our top-two system, that there's any way to prevent him from listing "prefers Democrat" at election-time, and nothing to prevent him from caucusing with whomever he wants. There's very little the state party can do in situations like this. He can't be excommunicated.
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@19, why would they care?
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#21, they might care when I write each of them to let them know that, if either of them decides to run for higher office, I'm one Democrat who will be glad to send them a check.

#20, if the "progressives" who dominate the Democratic Party can't live with differences of opinion, then they can give up control of the state Senate. It's their choice. Last session, those "turncoast pigfuckers" couldn't even pass a state budget. They got exactly what they deserved.

And now, Jay Inslee won't get a Legislature that "demands" he raise taxes. Therefore, if he intends to keep his pledge not to support tax increases, he'll have to swallow a bitter pill. This should be interesting, not to mention great fun to watch The Stranger whine for the next several years.
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p.s.: Jeanne Kohl-Welles, it so happens that I live in your district. The session hasn't even started, and you've just declared war within the Democratic Party. And you wonder why a state full of Democrats re-elects you but turns right around and does everything it can to keep you in a fiscal straitjacket?

Look in the mirror, you irresponsible, childish ideologue. You are the problem, not anyone else.
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@20 Maybe you sit on some Dem party council, and have the same scared, what-can-be done reaction when Sheldon comes up. Please. The party can do a lot, beyond just cutting off funding.
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And hey mister g, maybe with a more conservative legislature that you're hoping for, you won't have to see so many dirty immigrants using their EBT cards in line in front of you at the grocery store. What a progressive win!

You are more progressive than the "progressives", right? That's the implication that you're aiming for with your quotes? I know it's like a tic with you, when you seize upon a word or phrase and can't help repeating it ad nauseam, but I assume that's why you chose it to begin with. Because Seattle is not as good as California or something. So the crappy and not so progressive "progressives" should go to California now. Or Something.

Your mind must be a kaleidoscope of glittering idiocy.
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Finally showing your face again since your piss-gargling frenzy of election posts Mister G? I thought you had it on stone-cold historical and statistical authority that Obama had all of a snowball's chance in snowball hell?
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Fantastic...Olympia realigns itself to actual voting preferences of the People and Liberals strap themselves to Catherine Wheels and self-flagellate in agony!! How dare they...those..those...COMMONERS...defy the Royal Imperial Chair of Washington.
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A less petty man might enterprise to rise above it all - but the enormous stupidity of your opinions is like a goddamn siren. A just world would grind your face into each of the carpets you've soiled, and leave you out back for the night.
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@22: Neither Sheldon nor Tom is going to run for higher office as a Democrat, and it's hard to get elected as a Republican in this state.
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Senators Sheldon and Tom have indicated they are more comfortable working with Republican and caucusing with Republicans, and they have every right to do so.

They declared they "prefer Democratic Party" when they filed for office, but now they have changed their minds and now prefer the Republican Party.

In the case of Sen. Tom, he's just coming home. He was a Republican office-holder until he saw the political winds change in his district, so he flipped and called himself a Democrat for a while. But his heart wasn't in it.

Sen. Sheldon is another case, a rootless pol with no functional party allegiance at all. I hope the Republicans have as much fun working with him as the Democrats did.

People have a right to change their minds, just as the voters have the right weigh those changes come the next election. Couple of districts should have interesting senatorial elections come 2014.
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@30 But it's just that they "change their minds" every freaking time!! And didn't the Dems just offer one of them some sort of coveted chairmanship? This is their lame attempt to keep them from doing what everyone and their mother know they're going to do? What the hell, man. What the hell.

And the Democrats here are such pansies. I swear to god. This is a state that approved marijuana and gay marriage, has had two Democratic senators for twenty years, or something, and hasn't voted Republican since Reagan. And the state Dems act like we're Ohio, or something. I swear, I hope the Dems get the snot beat out of them so they'll stop acting like fragile flowers and start governing like the voters who put them in power. I have such a low opinion of the state Democratic Party. They're incredibly lucky that state Republicans are Oklahoma-level freaks or they wouldn't be in power.
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#26, howdy, stalker bitch! I was wondering how long it would take you to get here.Maybe you and #27 should get to know each other, and I'll do you both at once.

Meantime, "progressives," have fun. I know I will as I watch you whine for the next couple years!
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Sheldon already gets cross-over votes from Republican and independant voters. The Republican and Democrat establishments would both like to unseat him. This has been the case for years. The 35th is a moderate district and Sheldon isn't that out of line with it.
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@22 - you're such a "Democrat" that you were part of the minority of state voters to go for McKenna while simultaneously attempting to depress turnout by saying the Dems didn't have a chance.

Go back to Publicola.
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Also one of the majority in every county that voted for I-1185. Guess what? You're not going to get your "progressive" tax increases. Ain't it a bitch?
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@35 - Keep herping that derp, but do it somewhere else kk?
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Are they guilty of being liars, cheats and thieves? Yes, of course, they're career politicians.

Can you recall them for being liars, cheats and thieves? Sadly, no.

RCW 29A.56.110
Whenever any legal voter of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, either individually or on behalf of an organization, desires to demand the recall and discharge of any elective public officer of the state or of such political subdivision, as the case may be, under the provisions of sections 33 and 34 of Article 1 of the Constitution, the voter shall prepare a typewritten charge, reciting that such officer, naming him or her and giving the title of the office, has committed an act or acts of malfeasance, or an act or acts of misfeasance while in office, or has violated the oath of office, or has been guilty of any two or more of the acts specified in the Constitution as grounds for recall. The charge shall state the act or acts complained of in concise language, give a detailed description including the approximate date, location, and nature of each act complained of, be signed by the person or persons making the charge, give their respective post office addresses, and be verified under oath that the person or persons believe the charge or charges to be true and have knowledge of the alleged facts upon which the stated grounds for recall are based.
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@32: "howdy, stalker bitch!" Alright mang - but I ain't the one posting to slog at 2 AM... All I can say is: this must simply be a testament to you handsome looks and social competency. Actually, ALL I can say is when these sorts of things were being handed out at the beginning of time you must have been jerking off in a public restroom. And "I'll do you both at once"? Sorry babe, you're not my type.
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#38, I got the post number wrong. My stalker bitch is #25.
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@19: Thanks for the link.

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