The number one qualification for any state party chair is their ability to raise funds. In the real world, it trumps ideological purity every time.

So how about an article on each candidate's fundraising history and strategy? Anyone who leads with "send out more email pleas" get booted out right now.

Joby clearly wasn't at the first candidate forum. Not that I expect competence to be a concern from Joby at this point.

How "former" is she? Is this a payoff for PP's endorsement of Ed Murray for mayor?

@3, seems unlikely. Laurent had left PP and joined her current job at Win/Win by June 2012. http://winwinnetwork.org/about/staff/

@1 actually, their number one task may actually be organizing. Outside Seattle the Republicans are busy organizing every community in this state with a determination to take the governor's office from us in 2016. Organizing a base of engaged activists is also key to good fundraising, as the California Democratic Party has found. Plus it helps win elections, which is the entire point and something that Democrats have had trouble with in non-presidential years here.

you know what liberal ism is a mental disorder and clearly it shows in Washington state politics as well as what's going on in the White Houseall they care about just fundraising and electionsand winning they are the reason our state is in shambles right now the Liberal Democrats they are the reason our country is in shambles that it is now but they want to keep blaming it on Bush he's been in office for 6 years hey Sam to move on these guys are nothing but a bunch of f****** pukes and we need to take our country back and running to the way it's supposed to be ran not keep taking all of our money from us and thrown into a toilet that never seems to fill up we are losing our country do these liberal Democrats they're destroying everything and it's all by Design yo its funny say say say rich people she get the s*** text at about and a lot of them a rich but that doesn'tmean that they should have to pay more taxes this all the other rich people Washington were trouble so if you want to keep these people in place it's pretty sad I don't like calling watching to my home anymore when you got 98 percent of the state that both red and you have four counties on the west side of the state that out population trumps with rest of the state really wantits really sad