AP/MSNBC: Republican challenges Washington vote

[mountebank]

Democrat won governor’s election by 129 after two recounts
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:54 p.m. ET Jan. 7, 2005

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Republican Dino Rossi and the state Republican Party announced Friday that they would contest the governor’s election that gave his Democratic opponent, Christine Gregoire, a 129-vote victory.

Republicans have been building a case over the past few weeks, gathering evidence of voting irregularities, including illegal provisional ballots and a handful of votes cast by dead people. They are pushing for a revote, an unprecedented step in a statewide election.

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Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., a supporter of Rossi, said he believed the Republican had enough evidence to support an election challenge. He pointed to questions about mishandled provisional ballots in King County.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6793577/

They will never, ever stop. How much do you want to bet that the dead people are people who died in between voting (absentee) and election day?

[mountainvue]

1. If they want to push for a re-vote then let them.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Cha]

2. It's okay for rossi to contest after two recounts..BUT

when Conyers and Boxer stand up for voting rights then they are unpatriotic. Why do Dems fall into the fascists' traps?

[The empressof all]

3. Rossi is an attention whore

He's riding this train as long as his names in the paper.

[tanyev]

4. WWTDS?

What Would Tom Delay Say?

Many observers will discard today’s petition as a partisan waste of time, but it is much worse.

It is an assault against the institutions of our representative democracy; it is a threat to the very ideals it ostensibly defends.

No one is served by this petition, not in the long run.

And in the short term, its only beneficiaries are its proponents themselves.

Tom Delay, 1/6/05

[Habibi]

14. That is a lovely thing to have on record, innit?

Thanks for that.

[librechik]

5. see? it was right to challenge Ohio

the pukes certainly would have. Wish we had done New Mexico and Florida too! The tort reform crowd are actually enthusiastic litigators.

[Ediacara]

6. This is hilarious

1) The Dems control both houses of the legislature.

2) Gregoire will be inaugurated Wednesday.

What will Rossi hope to acheive if he continues on this tack? Is he hoping for a new election in March or April? Shall he move to Idaho and become Washington's Governor-in-exile?

[Downtown Hound]

10. He's hoping to cast doubt on her victory

To give his supporters something to whine about for the next four years. That way whenever Gregoire does something that they don't like, they can always fall back on the, "She cheated" excuse.

[SoCalDem]

18. They would whine, regardless.. Repubes are sore losers and sore winners

They are pathetic bullies..

[Just Me]

7. They disrespect the election process,...they are sore losers,...

,...they are demeaning the honest poll workers,...they are simply holding up "democracy",...they are stalking Michael Moore,...they are defying a decision by "the people",...

Have I covered all the right-wing talking points?

Prolly not,...but, I tried :bounce:

[bleedingheart]

8. Wonder if the Democrats in the DNC are watching this and learning

cuz we laid down and lt the Bushites fuck over voters in OHIO...and yet....they laid down and did NOTHING....

Meanwhile...the GOP is raising a fuss over an election in this state...and they won't stop until the Dems roll over or punch them in the face.

[LynnTheDem]

9. WHY do the rethugs want this one soooooo badly???

They LOST. And they tell us to GET OVER IT when bush runs to daddy's Supreme Court and has recounts cancelled.

They tell us today WE need to just GET OVER OHIO.

Yet they want a FOURTH recount for Wa.

What a buncha hypocritical little brats.

[annabanana]

12. It's time for Washington to HEAL...

and get on with the business of bringing people together in the spirit of bipartisanship............
hmmphf

Any hoo.... I'm sure the pugs were up to tricks in Washington too like they were everywhere else........

[Catherine Vincent]

11. What a SORE ROSSIMAN!

Get over it, Repuke!

[MergeLeft]

13. Those SORE freaking LOSERS!

We should shout it from the tree tops... SORE LOSERS! CRY BABIES!

[msongs]

15. democrat cowards cave and repubs never quit because

democrats like to lose and republicans kerry on to the last drop of blood. Oh sorry to mention kerry in a post about fighting to get the last vote counted, for him that was only empty rhetoric.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[proudbluestater]

16. Didn't take the MSM long to jump on this, did it? Sadly, Repukes rule.

[pa28]

17. Cracks me up.

They have a problem with King County and they filed their challenge in ultra-red Chelan. The usual judge shopping.

Any legal minds out there know what our recourse is if they find a redneck judge to toss out the whole election? Is it back to the state supreme court?

[MissB]

19. What their lawyer said during the televised conference today is

that they filed in a county court because the state supreme court had already told them (via the Democrat's lawsuit in November) that the supreme court is not set up to accept evidence. They expect it to end up in the state supreme court regardless.

They claim that many of the problems were in Chelan County so therefore they filed there. Right. Yeah. Whatever.

[pa28]

21. OK thanks.

I was impressed by the state supremes during the King County hearings. Not much patience for rhetoric. Just the facts.

[stevedeshazer]

20. Dino Do-over

Screw that.

[Moderator]

22. locking

discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1131292