All the more reason to get signatures for that Sensible Washington initiative to Legalize MJ ... isn't their website www.sensiblewashington.org as I recall?
Than he can huff and puff and shout at those young whippersnappers on their lawns - but be powerless to do a darned thing about it.
I call bullshit on this. Gregoire is being included any lists as a nice attaboy. She has no business being SG. All previous SGs are legal scholars of one stripe or another and most have a lot of experience in federal law, have clerked for prominent judges, been US Attorneys, etc. Gregoire has spent nearly 40 years working in Olympia.
Since the Senate will most likely confirm Kagan well before the August recess, there should be plenty of time to put Gregoire in the SG slot and then in turn slate the open seat on the November ballot.
The only question in my mind at this point is: to whom do we want to give the privilege of whupping Rossi's ass again?
I know you guys never ever credit publicola, and god knows I'm not a fan either, but c'mon, you know you picked this up from them. Be the bigger man here, Dom.
I'd have to agree with those who don't think this is happening. Chris "Don't call me Christine" Gregoire is a classic hack, a big fish in small pond. Did she ever take a case to the SCOTUS when she was AG? I think that at least some experience with the high court is necessary for the SG gig. Or at least more stellar credentials than an Auburn High diploma, UW Law and a middling career in a state many consider inconsequential.
She's an okay governor. She was a pretty good state attorney general. But she's way under-qualified to be Solicitor General. Really, she peaked as WA attorney general.
Dream on. Given the paucity of depth of the GOP gubernatorial candidates we've been subjected to in the last two decades, no one short of an old-school socially liberal, fiscally conservative Dan Evans style Republican would have a snow balls chance of winning in this state.
Thump, thump, thump goes the head on the desk. I really am sorry that I voted for her. She was the best AG I ever had to work with, nothing like Oregon's.
Now look at us, we can't shovel them to the other Washington fast enough.
Hey, on a side note, how many of you have been getting mail from our illustrious state legislators', telling you what a great job they think they did by raising taxes? There a stamp, I just loved paying for.
@17 Appreciate the correction. I am obviously too lazy to dig up such a hard to find fact. Gonzaga Law may be even more lightly regarded in fancy legal circles than UW Law. Sad, but that's the way clubbish societies are sometimes.
There's another deadline in there to consider. From HorsesAss:
"Callaghan goes on to explain that a resignation before May 31 would result in a special election, both primary and general, whereas a resignation after May 31, but before October 3 would result in a November free for all."
A free for all scenario could result in something scarier than Gov. Owen: Gov. Rossi!
goddammit.
i told you not to vote for him!
Than he can huff and puff and shout at those young whippersnappers on their lawns - but be powerless to do a darned thing about it.
The only question in my mind at this point is: to whom do we want to give the privilege of whupping Rossi's ass again?
It's going to happen sooner than you'd think.
AHS '91 and proud of it!
She's an okay governor. She was a pretty good state attorney general. But she's way under-qualified to be Solicitor General. Really, she peaked as WA attorney general.
Such a guy. Why wouldn't we want him as Governor?
Dream on. Given the paucity of depth of the GOP gubernatorial candidates we've been subjected to in the last two decades, no one short of an old-school socially liberal, fiscally conservative Dan Evans style Republican would have a snow balls chance of winning in this state.
Now look at us, we can't shovel them to the other Washington fast enough.
Hey, on a side note, how many of you have been getting mail from our illustrious state legislators', telling you what a great job they think they did by raising taxes? There a stamp, I just loved paying for.
"Callaghan goes on to explain that a resignation before May 31 would result in a special election, both primary and general, whereas a resignation after May 31, but before October 3 would result in a November free for all."
A free for all scenario could result in something scarier than Gov. Owen: Gov. Rossi!