Endorsement for King County Executive: Dow Constantine
Dow first came into my realm of consciousness when I started looking for a campaign to volunteer with early in the primary. I wanted to get involved, was horribly unemployed, and I was going back and forth as to help out with Larry Phillips or Dow Constantine. (I ended up helping out with the Sigler for Seattle Campaign - great experience, even if we lost.)
Dow won my favor over Larry Phillips because he seemed to be everyone’s champion. He had favorable marks from the gays and people of color. Not only that, he was a progressive champion of everything else under the sun, including a stalwart defender of puppies and kittens. How could you not love him?
During the primary, he was also the only candidate to call out Susan Hutchinson’s ludicrous assertion that she was non-Partisan. Hutchinson has only donated cash to Republican candidates (Bush, Rossi, Huckabee) and once sat on the board of the Discovery Institute, a hyper-conservative group looking to teach Intelligent Design in schools.
Hutchinson has name recognition from being a news-anchor on KIRO TV. This recognition has helped her in the polls - ironic, as she left KIRO with a bitter lawsuit and lots of burned bridges.
Other than that, she’s run on empty pleonasms for her entire campaign (”bringing people together”, “non-partisan solutions”, “outsider”). She seems to have NO idea as to what she’d really do for the County (or has an idea and won’t tell us) and comes across rather vapid in most of her public appearances.
And trick-or-treat, the King County Executive used to be a partisan position, and candidates had to declare their political affiliations. Susan Hutchinson was part of the campaign to make the position non-partisan.
Keep her out, Vote Dow in.
Some great other resources:
http://www.prochoicewashington.org/news/press/200906181.shtml
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/closet-case/Content?oid=1393918
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