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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

2012 "I will be voting for Justice Gonzalez, as opposed to the guy who can't proofread."

Posted by Eli Sanders on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:34 PM

Justice Steve Gonzalez: good with grammar, too.

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Justice Steve Gonzalez: good with grammar, too.

In addition to this, there's another interesting endorsement out today in the race for Washington State Supreme Court Position 8—this one grammar based.

Okay, so there are many reasons why I’m voting for Justice Steven Gonzalez in the August Primary. First, he’s garnered the endorsements of, well, everyone. Second, he was a great superior court judge. Third, he’s a champion of social justice. Finally, strikingly handsome man. Not as handsome as your professor, but given the right conditions, he might be able to best me in a Zoolander style walk-off.

Really though, the quality I admire most about him is one we should seek in all candidates for judicial office: literacy.

The not-quite-literate statement from Gonzalez opponent Bruce Danielson that set this blogger off? Danielson's description of his resume: "Business owner, manager, and work as a laborer prior to law school enhances my insight as to how our State’s laws affect property and individual rights."

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Actually, the entire thing is pretty damn funny and I suppose if you are a lawyer, even more funny.

Posted by westello on July 18, 2012 at 3:29 PM

It would be a helluva a lot funnier if there weren't a strong risk that Gonzalez might lose his race to this unqualified dolt because of his...ahem...ethnic-sounding name.

Seriously, everybody tell your friends and family to get off their asses and vote in this election.

Posted by Mr. Happy Sunshine on July 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM

Gonzalez also speaks Japanese and Spanish, fer crissakes. He's literate in three languages.

Posted by TVDinner

on July 18, 2012 at 4:10 PM

dude is just mixing his tenses around

i screw that up all the time when in both english and spanish (so do a lot of other people if you pay attention)

plus if @3 is right...

petty post.

Posted by Swearengen on July 18, 2012 at 4:18 PM

@4 - But people who are running for office might send their materials through a revision or two before sending them off to the printer. To put that sentence out on campaign materials is lazy and careless at an eighth-grade level.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on July 18, 2012 at 4:51 PM

shouldn't that be grammar-based?

Posted by Dan Savage on July 18, 2012 at 5:19 PM

At least it's a better reason than Eli's contrived "gun club scandal". Fuck off back to your closet and stick your Pulitzer back up your ass.

Posted by Stranger'sWorstNightmare on July 18, 2012 at 7:54 PM

@Dan According to the Chicago Manual of Style: "When compound modifiers (also called phrasal-adjectives) such as open-mouthed or nicotine-free come later in a phrase than the noun they describe, ambiguity is unlikely and the hyphen dispensable (though not incorrect)."

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