Not that we didn't expect it, but the R-71 campaign was handicapped by the bias of our incredibly liberal and increasingly shameless statewide media complex. Like a mantra, the ACCEPT R-71 campaign's talking points were reflexively repeated by nearly every Washington State newspaper, radio, and TV station. How many times did we hear or read that "SB 5688 and R-71 is not about marriage, but domestic partnerships...period"?

While we live in difficult times, the truth still comes out in the wash. While browsing through R-71 articles posted on the web, I found an honest column written by the other side - printed a week AFTER Election Day, of course.

Please click here to read "Gays to the Anti-71 Camp:  You were Right, This IS about Marriage".

As we were warned during the R-71 campaign, our state's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is now vulnerable in the courts due to the passage of SB 5688 via R-71. Count on the homosexual lobby to work every possible legal angle to achieve same-sex marriage by judicial fiat in the coming months.

Washington conservatives should take heart; the battle for marriage and family values in Washington State is far from over. Despite University of Washington polls showing overwhelming support for either same-sex marriage or domestic partnerships prior to Election Day on Nov. 3, our opponents barely reached a 53% majority statewide, and would have been soundly beaten were it not for the greater Seattle vote!

While there are those on our side who seem to have tired of the fight and now openly advocate a full scale retreat on important issues like same-sex marriage, the Protect Marriage Washington PAC and the Washington Values Alliance and their allies are more determined than ever to dig in and fight for all that is good and right in our home state of Washington.

These organizations intend to continue their efforts to organize, empower, and embolden a genuine pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-family political movement all across Washington!

With a major referendum drive and an extremely important U.S. Supreme Court case under their belts in less than one year (click here to read syndicated columnist George Will's article on R-71 as appeared in the Washington Post and hundreds of major newspapers across the nation) these groups have proven their effectiveness on the political battlefield.

YOU WILL BE HEARING FROM THE WASHINGTON VALUES ALLIANCE IN THE COMING WEEKS AND DURING THE 2010 LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN OLYMPIA!

There's been a lot of talk these days about the Republican Party failing to connect with the voters...I beg to differ, especially in South Snohomish County.

While Washington State's congressional leaders bask in the glow of more legislation than you can shake a stick at and only really promises to create such a federal deficit that possibly two generations of Americans will be paying for, local races received most of the attention (or indifference, depending on where you live) this past election cycle which culminated in elections that occurred only two weeks ago.

Rep. Inslee is crowing over his glorious support of HC Reform...please excuse me while I hurl....

Our U.S. Senators are looking forward to voting for the HC Reform that the House of Representatives passed by a very slim margin and hope to have enough votes to prevent any kind of attempt by the Republicans in the Senate of offering any kind of viable alternative that even remotely has a chance to get heard on the Senate floor. I guess they really believe that more Americans than not want to spend as much from taxes for health care that only promises to make more Americans slaves to their own government. People had better start reading the “Declaration of Independence” again before its too late.

 Despite the desire to spend the holidays cursing at your newspaper, radio, or whatever electronic media you prefer, there are some things to cheer about.

 John Koster won re-election to the Snohomish County Council!

 Joe Marine won re-election as Mayor of Mukilteo!

 Kerri Lonergan, in her first race for public office, beat the current City Council President of Lynnwood by an overwhelming majority, 4,234 votes to 2,366 votes!

 Michael Plunkett won re-election to the Edmonds City Council!

 Jeffrey Thorp won re-election as Director of District #4 in the Mukilteo School District!

 We learned a lot this past election:

19 more votes per precinct and Jim Smith would be the Mayor of Lynnwood instead of Don Gough.  That translates to 594 votes!  Out of 16,273 ballots mailed to voters in the City of Lynnwood only 7,175 votes were cast.  That translates into 44%!!!  This weak turnout for a position that has a huge impact on how dollars are spent in this city!  The winner of this election received 3,857 votes.  What that means is that of all the ballots that could have been cast in this race only 23.7% of the eligible voters in the City of Lynnwood supported the incumbent.  Less than 25% for crying out loud!!!

 Guess what, you won't be reading about that in the Daily Herald or the Lynnwood Enterprise.  I wonder why that is...maybe the people who work there and write for these publications are in the tank for democrats!  You Think?  Give me a break! You want to read the real story just keep reading Red County!

 Andrew Funk, nearly beat his opponent in the race for Mountlake Terrace City Council Position #3 by a margin of only 134 votes!

 There were also some impressive showings by some new faces from people who had never run for public office.

 Craig Parsons garnered 46.21% of the vote in his race for Lynnwood City Council Position #2.

 Dan Swank garnered 43.18% of the vote in his race for Lynnwood City Council Position #1

 Patty Cooper garnered 36.2% of the vote in her race for Mukilteo City Council Position #1.

 I am very proud of all of these candidates and the class they demonstrated during their respective campaigns. I have encouraged each of them to continue their pursuit of serving as public officials.  Keep knocking on the door because at some point it will be opened!

As for those people who think the Republican Party is finished in Snohomish County, I’ve got a news flash:

WE AREN'T GOING ANYWHERE!!!

WE WILL CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE THE OPPOSITION BY OFFERING VOTERS A TRUE ALTERNATIVE TO TAX AND SPEND LIBERAL POLICIES THAT DO NOT DELIVER AN EQUITABLE RETURN ON OUR TAX DOLLARS!

WE WILL CONTINUE TO HERALD OUR MESSAGE OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, SMALLER LOCALIZED GOVERNMENT, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, FREE ENTERPRISE,  AND OUR LOVE OF GOD AND COUNTRY.

2010 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, IT”S GOING TO BE A GREAT YEAR FOR THE GOP!

And when it was election time, his disciple Gregoire came to The One, saying, This Washington economy is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and find themselves their own jobs.

But Obama said unto her, They need not depart; give ye them a stimulus.

And she said unto him, We have here in Washington but nine Congressional districts.

He said, Bring the website hither to me.

And Obama commanded the multitude to log on to recovery.gov, and took the nine Congressional districts, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and created nine more Congressional districts, and gave them $6,729,117, and created 76 jobs with ye stimulus.

In case you haven't see it yet, recovery.gov is reporting that 76 new jobs have been saved or created in nine non-existent Washington Congressional Districts (the 00th, 10th, 11th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 24th, 38th, and 39th) at a cost of $6,729,117.  Similar reports are to be found in every state in the union.

According to ABC, which broke the story:

Rep. David Obey, D-Wisc, who chairs the powerful House appropriations Committee, issued a paper statement demanding that the recovery.gov Web site be updated.

"The inaccuracies on recovery.gov that have come to light are outrageous and the Administration owes itself, the Congress, and every American a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes." 

G. Edward DeSeve, Special Advisor to the Office of Management and Budget for Implementation of the Recovery Act claimed "some mistakes were inevitable" and "do nothing to disprove the effectiveness of the stimulus."

I plan to use the same argument with the IRS next April...

Washington State Sets New Record!

In his first major interview with the 'hated' Fox News, President Obama is now saying that we WILL HAVE A DOUBLE DIP RECESSION! 

In a continuing deterioration of the economy in Washington State the latest numbers coming in for October show a major monthly increase in unemployment statewide. Seasonably adjusted the U3 number came in at 9.3% unemployed or 331,000. U3 is the number of folks who have filed and are collecting unemployment benefits. The U6 number of 604,871 people out of work is that U3 number combined with those whose benefits have expired or have given up trying to find a job in the first place.

Just to give you an idea of how bad things are. King County now has 97,830 people collecting unemployment with an out of work total of 179,917 people. In battered Snohomish County it has now set an ALL TIME record for the number of people out of work 70,000 with almost 40,000 still collecting unemployment benefits. The Metro Seattle, Bellevue, and Everett totals really tell the story: 138,000 collecting benefits while a grand total of 256,233 are out of work.

What really is amazing is the story coming out of Washington, DC today that the Obama Administration is attempting to pass out false information about how many jobs the so-called stimulus plan has saved or created. Obama is apparently inventing stats for Congressional Districts that don’t exist. I talked to a leading Democrat this AM about this story and his response is that he thinks that the Obama Administration is losing it over the unemployment numbers because they know that it spells political doom for Democrats in the 2010 Congressional elections.

I also received information late yesterday that the Washington State Budget situation is far worse than the $2 Billion dollar shortfall the “bought and paid for” media is reporting in the state. The story in the Everett Herald, I am told, is off by at least 1.5 Billion. That means the problem is really about 3.5 Billion dollars. That doesn’t surprise the observers that I have talked to given the Retail Sales Numbers the state is seeing.

IN addition to everything else, foreclosures continue to accelerate in many of the areas. I reported on Snohomish County some time ago. Clearly this is a major disaster for the state and Western Washington in particular. This many people being impacted is the story you will not see the bubble, air head newsies on the Seattle TV stations report or read in the Newspapers purchased by the Washington State Democratic Party with a 40% tax reduction in the last legislative session, and for good reason.

Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) said on the Capitol steps today, "I asked you to come. And you came!" Thousands of people representing every state in the union (barring perhaps Alaska and Hawaii) stormed the Capitol today to show their opposition to a "public option."  Many in the crowd had made their way to DC on September 12 as well. I spoke with a lady from Florida who had ridden the bus all night to get there; she was in her 80s and had participated in the 9/12 demonstration but said, "I just feel I need to do whatever I can possibly do."  She was concerned about the massive spending and the additional debt that a 'public option' would bring. I also met people who had come from Pennsylvania, Indiana, Texas, and Oregon. 

Over a hundred Representatives joined Rep. Bachmann, Jon Voight, Mark Levin, and John Ratzenberger ("Cliff" from "Cheers" and the pig in "Toy Story") in warning quite bluntly about socialism, stating that the current version of the health care bill would grab 18% of our economy and add over a trillion dollars of debt, an average of 550 million dollars per page of the bill.  

At the urging of the legislators, participants streamed across the street to visit their elected representatives. The sidewalks were filled and many stood for over an hour waiting to get through security. While they waited, they sometimes chanted "Kill the bill!"  so loudly that legislators and aides came to the balconies to witness this historic event. Jane Citizen and I could hear the chanting quite clearly while we were in Rep. Rick Larsen's office. Larsen stated plainly that he will vote for the bill. 

Senator Maria Cantwell held a coffee hour at 9:00 a.m. and showed surprise at the number of constituents who had shown up to see her, around 20. Two had come for a different issue, but the rest were there to urge her not to support the 'public option.'  She was non-committal. 

Don't hold your breath. 

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