Fred Jarrett (D-41), a state senator from Mercer Island, is positioning himself as the anti-Seattle candidate in the race for King County executive, which he entered earlier this week.
On Monday, Jarrett the Issaquah Press reported that Jarrett said he’d “offer voters an alternative to [a] Seattle-based politician” for county executive. “We need someone who’s not from Seattle and has not been part of the problem for the past 24 years,” the paper quoted Jarrett as saying—a clear swipe at his opponents, King County Council members Larry Phillips and Dow Constantine, who both live in Seattle.
Jarrett, a former Republican who switched parties in 2007, has voted repeatedly against Democratic Party priorities. For example, as Publicola reported yesterday, he voted against Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles’ (D-36) legislation to reform a state workers’ compensation fund that was used by the Building Industry Association of Washington to promote Republican candidates; voted against the BIAW-opposed homebuyers’ bill of rights (which would require home builders to offer a warranty on their work), and voted to gut the voter-approved Initiative 937, which mandated that 15 percent of the state’s electricity come from renewable power by 2020. The BIAW maxed out to Jarrett in 2008. Jarrett also sponsored “governance reform” legislation that would have effectively killed Sound Transit, and has consistently opposed light rail across I-90.
Jarrett’s entry into the county exec race doesn’t preclude state Rep. Ross Hunter (D-48), another Eastside Dem who lives in Medina, from getting into the race; however, Jarrett clearly wanted to get his name in circulation first. Hunter—who recently sponsored legislation that would have given King County new revenue sources to close its massive ongoing budget gap, and is now supporting similar legislation sponsored by Sen. Debbie Regala—has not yet said whether he’ll get into the race.
Get the fuck out of his business, Erica. Jesus Christ. Who cares if he’s voted against Democrats? Get over it. It’s none of your business.
Aren’t you guys supposed to be making a joke out of politics right now?
@1,
Yeah, the political stance of a politician is no one’s business. Idiot.
Clearly someone from Mercer Island will better represent the interests of everyone in the County better than someone from Seattle.
Aw, sweetie. So good to see you back. Don’t hold back on those personal asides, k? Wouldn’t be the same.
xoxo
1, Why should she get out of the business?
A, her personal life really isn’t your business.
B, It’s her job to report on the political scene.
C, She’s got you reading her work, and you hate her. She must be doing something right.
I’m glad that this guy is running on the winning platform of “alienate 55% of the population.” It worked for Mccain right?
Anyone who thinks the attacks on Erica have anything to do with bottles of wine is fooling themselves.
@7 FTW.
@7 Anyone who thinks Erica has the right to attack anyone for ANYTHING for the next year is fooling themselves
Fnarf, If that’s true, we have a lot of passive aggressive people here. Maybe folks should consider actually giving counterpoints to her statements, instead of troll attacks? (Mind you, I really do love the drama of the surrounding the trolling, both the cowardly trolls, and the whiny responses from others.)
@5, the public record can be a bitch to one’s personal life.
Stop calling them trolls just because they make a comment you don’t like.
Rather, call them terrorists.
That way, you can discount any point they make, regardless of content or validity.
Additionally, you’ll never have to respond to their points.
Name-calling is much easier than rebuttal.
See, Charlie T., you’re just not contributing anything there. You’ve typed some words there, but they don’t mean anything. That’s what’s so annoying about you people. You’re all agitated about Right and Wrong and stuff, but you can’t write a simple sentence that makes sense or articulate an idea. ANY idea. It’s really very lame.
It’s one of the things that makes me think you’re all in ninth grade or something.
Well, obviously ECB should be publicly flogged for her transgression(s).
Then, after that, we can purge and disembowel all the Sock Puppets!!!
BooHaHa!
From @10:
“If that’s true, we have a lot of passive aggressive people here.”
oh, you’ve noticed that huh? you’re so brilliant! look at how smart you are.
/snarky example of passive aggressive posting
of which there plenty, but the problem, I think, isn’t the passive aggressive people; the problem here is the overtly aggressive & reactionary trolls.
@7/8: Yeah, right, she’s a blameless victim of these attacks. Everyone hates her because she’s awesome and they’re all jealous.
Lenny, the only point you have any familiarity with is the one on top of your head.
I don’t see what’s so puzzling about what I wrote, Fnarf.
When I was popped for a DUI 19 years ago, my name, age and address was published in the daily paper of the town I was living in at the time.
I could have avoided becoming part of the public record by not drinking two pitchers of beer and then driving.
So I’ll repeat for your diminished comprehension skills, Fnarf: If you like to keep your personal life private, don’t engage in actions that will get you arrested.
It’s time to secede and form Sealth county, and let these whiners pay for their own services from their non-existent revenues.
@18, but “arrested” and “in the public record” isn’t it for you, is it, Chucky boy? No, you need to keep hammering away at it here; you and your little pals need to keep filling every thread with your inane Little Hitlerisms, even after you promised to go away. Why is that? What the fuck is wrong with you, exactly? When you got your DUI, did a whole gang of shitheads converge on your place of work and taunt you about it for days on end? Or was the court resolution enough? Why isn’t it enough now?
Uhhh… to get this back on track, I’m kind of bummed out about Fred Jarrett’s record in the 41st. I haven’t exactly been following his political career, but I was heartened by his support of the recent domestic partnership bill.
@18 Charlie
Don’t feed the troll that is known as Fnarf.
She gets off on the attention.
Trying to reply with an intelligent remark goes right over the Troll’s head.
They’re not trolls. They’re terrorists.
Fnarf, on the other hand, is a freedom fighter.
Just so we get our terms straight.
@19, Will… please don’t be a short-sighted weirdo. People pay taxes in Bellevue too, just like everyone in Seattle. I don’t want Seattle to secede and then get stuck paying for White Center, etc.
Rage issues may be causing your accelerated hair loss, Fnarf.
And you still have zero traction against the basic premise of my post.
But I understand. Moving the goalposts is your specialty.
I have just about exactly the same amount of hair I had twenty years ago, Chuck. It’s got some gray in it, sure.
@4, 9, 11, etc ad infinitum. Just for you, SLOG created a whole special thread for this discussion, a post at 11:40 a.m today. No one wants to censor you, but do you think you could just post future stuff along these lines on that thread?
@27 Sure sounds good.
Just because you were the first to really sweetly ask nicely, I for one will go lurk in that thread.
Have a nice day.
@6 Actually Seattle is about 1/3 of the King County vote….
Comment #1: concerned reader towing the Discovery Institute / Endangered species reflexive Republican line. Fred Jarrett will fly far with a reactionary right base!
Look for billionaire Repub financier John Stanton to be pulling strings behind the scenes.
Billionaire right wing kingmaker John Stanton spent a couple hundred grand on a King County charter amendment last year to grease the skids for Jarrett compete in this race – unhampered by Republikan or Democratic labels. It’s scary dudes like Stanton which make me extremely dubious about a Jarrett candidacy.
Anti-tramsit Stanton is looking for a beachead at King County. He already found one at the city of Seattle in Reuven Carlyle.
Jarrett’s Olympia isn’t part of the problem?
Are you kidding me?????
While Portland’s MAX has been expanding by leaps and bounds because of an influx of STATE MONEY, Fred Jarrett and his friends don’t cough up a dime for our regional rail system.
It’s actually worse than that.
Jarrett, Clibborn, Eddy, Haugen…all of these transportation “leaders” are constantly looking for new ways to divert green transit dollars into black asphalt. And they do it every legislative session. The latest gestation of this back-door approach is delivered under the guise of “regional transportation governance reform.” The goal? Transfer east rail extension dollars into their own pet projects, plain and simple.
@21 Jarrett is very good on the gay issues so he has my support.
moo, Jarrett’s no better than either Dow Constantine or Larry Phillips.