Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I am growing quickly disinclined to get dragged into primary political battles for the 2010 election. This is partially because I’m getting to a position where I know some of the folks involved in the campaigns (which is why I’m counting the days until the California primaries are over), and partially because it’s going to be a free-for-all for some of these seats (part of the problem with having so many Democratic seats up for grabs). So, it’ll take a bit to get me to note something in particular about a GOP primary candidate.
A 2008 SEIU endorsement will do. I’m not as ready as that poster is to tie WA-03 Republican candidate Jaime Herrera to ACORN, but taking money from the Purple People Beaters is quite bad enough (see here and here for corroboration that State Rep. Herrera did in fact get endorsed by SEIU). Mind you, I’m perfectly ready to believe that she regrets that endorsement now, too – but now would also be a good time for her to indicate said regrets. Put another way: at the moment Herrera is talking about Big Labor, which is great… but as a state legislator she courted Big Labor, which makes at least an explanation germane. And when you have an unexplained disconnect between current rhetoric and past rhetoric, it looks bad if it gets out.
And it will get out. Somebody will always be happy to pass someone else a quiet word.
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NeoKong (Diary) Wednesday, February 24th at 10:32PM EST (link)Tea party or smell farty. That’s how it goes now.
Sucking to SEIU or to ACORN just tells us that we have a cylon in our midst.
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Did she actively seek the endorsement?
jfindl2 (Diary) Wednesday, February 24th at 10:40PM EST (link)or did they just give it to her b/c she voted their way on an issue?
I’m a little retread, short and stout. I have no life, I reregister and pout.
5 yard penalty, not a fumble
hickorystick (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:53AM EST (link)The SEIU your talking about is the Teachers Union. Gary Locke crossed horns with them, to balance the budget, and was shown the door before the next election. Her district includes Vancouver, WA as well, which is a suburb to Portland. Irritating, but not a fatal flaw. She got Slade Gorton’s endorsment, Danny heck got Gregoire’s, nough said.
Is RedState Sexist?
lightnermarie Thursday, February 25th at 12:29PM EST (link)I’ve been reading this blog for a while and think it’s time somebody asked? You all seem to go after women with a vengeance. Why is that?
shut up and bring me my dinner! -nt
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:30PM EST (link)Molon Labe!
figures
lightnermarie Thursday, February 25th at 12:34PM EST (link)no wonder there is a 20- 30 point gender gap.
sure
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:36PM EST (link)in fact is has been proven that Republicans would have won every presidential election in the modern age if women could not vote. But my response was to your trollish comment.
Molon Labe!
btw
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:38PM EST (link)I can’t think of a single time I have “gone after women” in a post., until you lol.
Molon Labe!
So it isn't that she has connections with a notorious left wing union org, it's that she is a women.
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:38PM EST (link)Yeah that’s it. Get out of here.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:45PM EST (link)Connection to the SEIU isn’t a good thing when trying to be a republican, but it’s great if you want to be a Democrat. We don’t need anymore those type of people in Government right now, we need honest people not those with connections to Anti-American union.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Richard, I think you misunderstood me.
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:49PM EST (link)I was pointing out how stupid lightnermarie was being in her accusation of sexism.
It isn’t her sex that’s the issue, it’s her involvement with SEIU.
So I think you and I are in agreement, no?
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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Were on the same thought but it seems we have a moby around here
Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 1:10PM EST (link)and the sexism charge is one of deflection.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
really richard?
lightnermarie Thursday, February 25th at 1:15PM EST (link)Do you think women agree with Doc’s comments? Republicans can win but for women voters? Hardly the way to the majority.
A) what I said is a fact, there is no debate
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 1:35PM EST (link)B) i illustrated your absurdity by being absurd. You think you will get friends here by this course? I don’t even need to respond to you, everyone knows your game.
Molon Labe!
Pssst. Ignorance isn't REALLY bliss. it's just a saying.
randy streu (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:35PM EST (link)we go after ANYONE who fails to represent the interests of the American people – especially, if they choose instead to represent “special” interests. That they are occasionally women isn’t our problem. Given what we do here, it’d be sexist NOT to go after them for it.
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Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:40PM EST (link)I abhor sexism in all its forms, especially when the girl is HOT.
G'bye
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 1:36PM EST (link)If you think that of us then you won’t mind me turning off your account.
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really?
lightnermarie Thursday, February 25th at 12:37PM EST (link)A quick search of the posts on Pat Tiberi or Pete King suggests otherwise.
Really? You did a quick search on two people and *gasp* we didn't go after them as much as some random person thinks we should!?!
randy streu (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:45PM EST (link)Okay, NOW I’m gonna get my feminist on! erick? Neil? WTF!? WHY haven’t we gone after Peter #@&*ing King as much as lightnermarie feels we should have?!
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add 'em up
lightnermarie Thursday, February 25th at 1:13PM EST (link)go after whomever you want, just seems that you go after the women as closet squishes, but ignore the other guys who have similar views. That’s what searches of your posts suggest. I think we should be trying to bring us women in instead of saying that if they couldn’t vote none of this would have happened.
doc wants to take women's vote away
lightnermarie Thursday, February 25th at 12:38PM EST (link)who else wants to put us back in the kitchen?
lol
Doc Holliday (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:40PM EST (link)I want to take your vote away. I would do it with a basic knowledge test.
Molon Labe!
hahahahahahahahahhaaha!
randy streu (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 12:42PM EST (link)Okay, this HAS to be somebody playing a game. there’s no way you can be this stupid and still turn on the computer.
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Guys... email me about these people
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 1:37PM EST (link)Have to nip it in the bud.
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Who let her put her 'puter in the kitchen?
nessa (Diary) Thursday, February 25th at 1:42PM EST (link)I mean really! Obviously she wasn’t getting any dishes washed or meals cooked.
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With the end of Paterson’s stint as governor, what is to come of SEIU's plans for New York?
javsnyc (Diary) Tuesday, March 2nd at 10:15AM EST (link)In his budget, Paterson proposed a number of new taxes, the closure of facilities and other measures to suit a political agenda. With the end of his tenure well within sight, what is to come of these initiatives and the outside agencies that support them?
It is hard to believe that the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) 1199 will simply allow the two million dollars investment in the soda tax simply fall to the wayside. We know whom the SEIU had in their pocket. And how that black-handed, double-dealing agent worked out for them.
So who will be the new face of the SEIU’s regressive policy for New York? What politician would be willing to back a union in their money grab from hardworking middle and lower classes of New York?
SEIU should take care of involving itself in politics. Back in 2003, the SEIU chastised AFL-CIO for being overly involved elections. Now in 2010, it is hypocritical that they should be involved in a campaign to burden New Yorkers with a new tax. The SEIU is backing a tax on the middle and lower class, the very same janitors, elevator operators and window washers who formed the union back in 1921.