Drescher's Endorsers: Part 3
Who knew that this election for Position No. 6 in Newcastle was significant enough for renowned politicians like Rob McKenna, Adam Smith, Dave Reichert and Rodney Tom to stick their noses into, but sure enough here they all are. I have been in campaigns on behalf of myself and fellow citizens since 1976 trying to bring common sense solutions to problems based on our national constitutional premises and our greatest values that have been around even long before 1776.
As Attorney General, Rob McKenna didn't dare step into my legal battle with the King County Elections Director a few years ago even though I was legally obligated to notify him in his position as A.G. Maybe, he agreed with my legal argument, as I'm one of the few, besides Dino Rossi, who has challenged the decisions of the Logan/Huff administrations, but considering that he's no political friend of anybody outside of his own upper echelon class, it's doubtful.
Rodney Tom is a slick charlatan who was once a Republican, turned Democrat, and then turned the tables on his new Democratic Party colleagues by getting in some kind of convoluted coalition with his old Republican chums. Now, that gives the word "turncoat" a new spin. What's he doing meddling in Newcastle politics? He would be lucky to get elected Dogcatcher in his home district, let alone possibly entertaining thoughts about any statewide offices.
To complete this mediocre foursome of washed-up politicians endorsing John Drescher are congressmen, Adam Smith and Dave Reichert. Adam Smith, from the corporate "Blue Dog" wing of the Democratic Party, helped to overturn the "Glass-Steagall" regulations on the banks in 1999, and thus gave "Wall Street" free rein to crash the economy, which they got around to doing in a big way in the Autumn of '08, and the economy hasn't recovered much since. Smith is no Jimmy Stewart's "Mr. Smith" (regarding the old movie, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington").
Dave Reichert, the Republican congressman (CD 8) who apparently thinks that consciousness about the environment is mostly, if not only, important for political ends than any real problem that needs to be addressed for its own sake. He got caught a few years ago making a statement about "the environment" and politics that belied him as no more than a typical politician, to put it nicely, as opposed to the earnest friend-of-the-environment that he wanted everybody to think he was.
In a League of His Own: And Steve Litzow ... the District 41 State Senator is a weasel. When I communicated with him a few years ago and supported him when he was in the process of unseating Randy Gordon, I had heard rumors that he was an unethical charlatan, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt, unfortunately. I actually was able to give Litzow essential information that helped him win his close election over Gordon, but his endorsement of Drescher -- not even staying neutral -- is the "thanks" that I get. I even wrote statements through a Seattle Times format lauding Litzow as an exceptional Republican (what a fool I was). [Note: John Drescher donated hundreds of dollars to John McCain's Republican presidential campaign; NPR believes it was for McCain's most recent presidential run.] Litzow will never reach any statewide office with his record of duplicity, I think.
With "friends," of my opponent, like these, who needs endorsers?
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Newcastle City Council, Position No. 6
[revised on 9/12/13]
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