Gregoire sworn in as Washington governor (pic of protestors)

[RamboLiberal]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002148856_webgovernor12.html

Christine Gregoire, winner of the closest governor's race in Washington history, was inaugurated today, but faces an immediate court challenge that could make it a short-lived honor.

"Change is here and more is coming," she said in her first official speech.

Democrat Gregoire, 57, a scrappy three-term attorney general who took on the tobacco industry and polluters, took the oath of office before a joint session of the state Legislature. Minority Republicans had battled unsuccessfully to delay her inauguration for two weeks.

Republicans in the House Chamber rose along with cheering Democrats to greet her swearing-in, but did not join in the applause.


Steve Linderman of Bonney Lake yesterday gives a thumbs-down to supporters of Christine Gregoire and urges a revote. Gregoire supporters and opponents gathered outside the Capitol in Olympia as the Legislature certified her as governor.




As an airplane flies overhead displaying a banner that reads notmygovernor.com, Delores Tulfo, left center, and Peggy Hubler, right center, and other supporters of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi demonstrate outside the state Capitol in Olympia.

[nickshepDEM]

1. In the words of Sean Insannity.

"GET OVER IT. YOU LOST!"

[ewagner]

2. Hmmmm....

notice the comercially made signs for "Re-Vote"?

Those Repubs don't miss a thing do they?

[progressiveBadger]

3. It's over, deal with it

:)

[GRLMGC]

4. God, they're such hypocrites

If Rossi had been sworn in and there were Democratic protesters out there, you can imagine how that would've gone down.

[OldVlad]

48. hypocrites

Course they're saying the same thing about us because of the ongoing implication of Ohio being stolen. I don't think so, FL was stolen, Ohio we just got flat out beat.

But yes, they're complete and total hypocrites to be whining about Rossi, that's partisanship for ya.

[okieinpain]

5. funny that guy in hooded coat looks like bush.

[Benhurst]

27. No, I think its CNN commentator Judy Woodruff. NT

[PA Democrat]

6. Would it be inappropriate to say to these protesters,

GET OVER IT!

[Career Prole]

7. I noticed the sign "The dead vote...soldiers don't?"

Why is the tune "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" running through my mind right now?

[Rainscents]

13. Dead votes...

There were 8 dead votes and they were all for Rossi Vote... Give me a break! Talk about stealing votes. Rossi also stolded "Snohomish County votes" by pre-programing the machines. I wish there was a way, I could had posted the pdf file to DU breaking news. I tried thou.

[corbett]

31. Military Votes For Kerry In Ohio And Elsewhere

My mind keeps thinking about the heroic men and women who wear our nation's uniform who voted for Kerry by absentee only to have their ballot nullified.

[Career Prole]

40. The worst thievery of all, that. n/t

[pa28]

8. The irony is so thick.

When Rossi was leading by 42 votes the integrity of the election system was beyond reproach.

Now they complain about dead voters (who all went for Rossi BTW).

[fortyfeetunder]

76. Can you lead me to that story about the 8 dead for Rossi?

I need the evidence....

[RevolutionaryActs]

9. They are such sore losers, if it was the other way around they would

be thumbing their noses at the Dem's. The bastards! :grr:

[politicaholic]

10. If all of the people at the rally pitched in $2000 each...

then we could pay for a re-vote. Instead, the rest of Washington doesn't feel like paying $4 million.

It's just one of those "fiscal responsibility" things that "conservative republicans" can't seem to grasp.

They just can't take that Gregoir was actually voted in through a legislative process rather than enstated by the judicial system they hate so much.

SCREW YOU!!

love,
Seattle

[montanacowboy]

11. Tell Fredo Rossi

to go golf- hahahaha

[ET Awful]

12. Those Repugs really need to get over it. n/t

[imax2268]

14. Get over it sore losers...

sit down...shut up...and get over it...

hmmm...where have I heard that before...

[pk_du]

15. I'm sure this asshole is in the crowd somewhere!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002148527_biaw12m.html

[bushisanidiot]

61. Is that a freeper handing out programs for the KKK rally after the protest

all the pics i've seen of these losers are of white people.. mostly men and old ladies.

[musette_sf]

16. meanwhile our soldiers in Iraq are dying

so a plane can fly their silly-ass banner around. Morans.

[Liberty Belle]

17. funny that they've got orange balloons.

I think we should use this to our advantage. It shows that the voting reform movement is truly bipartisan. Tell all your Republican friends!

Seriously, there's a movement afoot to enlist moderate Republicans and urge them to egg their local GOP committees and clubs into endorsing resolutions calling for true electoral reforms (verifiable paper trails or paper ballots, no partisan-owned machines, etc).
These pics just add fuel to that fire. Let's fan the flames!

[DearAbby]

49. I agree, We can use this movement for our purpose.

We need to be including moderate Republicans with this cause, it affects them as well. These people feel they have been cheated, so do we. We can join together on common ground. HAVE OUR VOTE COUNT.

We get so angry when a Freep says, "get over it" Yet do the same thing when the shoe is on the other foot. We could instead reach across and show them a better way. We need them as well, Show those in Congress this is the will of the People. Both parties. Americans.

:::steps off of soap box:::

[NewYorkerfromMass]

69. Interesting idea. We fight for Washington, and you help fight for Ohio/FL

Imagine making that offer to a repube!

[sandnsea]

79. Agree 100%

I posted the exact same thing earlier. This is a perfect opportunity to turn election integrity around in an instant. Challenge them to pony up and support the election reform they're complaining about.

[KansDem]

52. Whew! You got me excited there for a moment...

...when I read "urge them to egg their local GOP committees" I was ready to run out to the local market and buy a couple dozen!

It sounded like fun and I wanted to be a part of it!

[Liberty Belle]

85. A tempting thought ;-)

But we'd be better off channeling their moral outrage to our advantage.

The vision of those Tigger-costumed clowns dripping in egg yolk does, however, make me smile.

[havocmom]

18. To the woman holding the "Thou shall not STEAL" sign:

Take it to Ohio and tell it to Blackwell.

[boneygrey]

19. Losers n/t

[bluestateguy]

20. Christine Gregoire: The Governor

Any opposition to the governor, or to her agenda, or her vision for the state of Washington should be declared to be treason. I hope state troopers were there taking names to be entered into databases.

Christine Gregoire is the goveror. She was chosen by God. To oppose her is to sin against God.

[SOS]

21. "Re-Vote", orange balloons...

Do these people think they are in Ukraine?

[bluestateguy]

22. On a serious note. I should point out that Gore never called for a revote

Nor did I. I opposed, and Gore did not endorse the lawsuits brought by Palm Beach County citizens calling for a revote because of Teresa LePore's butterfly ballot. Gore simply wanted all the votes counted.

[Florida_Geek]

23. Now this is a good picture

Plus Yahoo news photos have NO protest pictures... MSM missed one.
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=ISO-8859-1&c=news_photos&p=Gregoire

[RamboLiberal]

25. Great pic - thanks for posting - I was looking for one

to counter the Repuke idiots.

[fasttense]

24. Too Bad we can't get an airplane to fly

over the B*sh coronation with a sign Not MY President. It would probably get shot down by the SS. Don't the Repukes like to steal our ideas, the orange, the Not My President. They don't seem to have any ideas of their own. They are really not very original.

[Rainscents]

28. She'll make great Governor!

I do NOT want Rossi as a my Governor. I think he'll undo everything Democrats had worked for past 20 years and I also think, he'll put state in more debt and let the corporate to pollute the state and I can't even think about what will happen to our education system will be like.

[bahrbearian]

26. If Steve Linderman of Bonney Lake Voted In King County

Of couse they couldn't count his Vote .I quess he doesn't know that Bonney Lake is in Pierce county, MORANs

[Ediacara]

72. Seriously....

Unless King County has had some MAJOR annexations recently :-)

[KamaAina]

29. Why isn't Moran Man joining in on all this good fun?

'Course, he might have to trade in the Cards shirt for an M's one, but even so...

[stevedeshazer]

33. Too cold for him

Shrinkage, you know. :evilgrin:

[President Kerry]

42. ain't much to shrink n/t

[Tweed]

73. Well it looks like the kids in the background is wearing one already

That's a M's shirt for sure.

[TahitiNut]

30. To Whining Washington Repukes: Love It or Leave It!

Take your own f*cking advice, you ethically bankrupt hypocrites!

[Niche]

32. Coverage! My! It looks like more people showed up for this

than DC 6th... such manipulation by media -- when 100,000 + people hit the street in NYC for RNC protest it looks like 200... I'm happy that people are in the streets for whatever they believe in... scares me that we may be headed for a civil war here. uhhh.

[tinanator]

56. 100,000+?

try upwards of 800,000. When the official estimates are 500,000...

[Dems4HowardDean]

34. *NOTICE* the www.freerepublic.com sign LOL

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[Rainscents]

35. LOL...

What a bunch of MORONS!!!!!!!!!! They need to get a LIFE!!!

[stevedeshazer]

36. Great catch - ROFL!

That guy on the left used to have his picture in their gallery, I think!

ps - that pic deserved a thread of its own

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2942691

[sherilocks]

37. Geez, they look like the same group

that stuck a sore loserman sign in my face following the 2000 election in Florida. My sign said "we want a revote".

[TankLV]

38. How do dead people vote - REPUKE!

That's what all the so-called dead that have been identified did!

Of course, this salient bit of info is simply LOST on these ignorant fucks!

[Rainscents]

41. I bet those people are from...

Carl Rove's first reponds team! LOL

[fob]

47. I fully support their chance to vote again, and it is scheduled for

November 2008. So until then, SUCK IT FASCISTS!!!!

[MsMagnificent]

63. They really have no brains

if the dead actually voted for Rossi! LMAO

Anyhow: BOO FUCKING HOO :nopity:

Funny how they think a double-edged sword is an abomination... guess it's their KKKristian upbringing

[Renew Deal]

68. (Brain) Dead people vote Republican

Someone should hold up a sign saying that.

[fortyfeetunder]

77. How do dead people vote?

Once a fellow DUer shows me the article, apparently for Rossi!!!!

[stepnw1f]

39. Wide Eyed Fanatics

How much were they paid?

[AmandaRuth]

43. not sure

but some were bussed in from Montana

[Laurab]

59. That was my first thought, too NT

[sleipnir]

44. I see Skelator is now voting Republican,

Big surprise.

[bleever]

45. A Tigger constume? WTF?

I say, TTFN: Tata for now!

:)

[LibDemAlways]

54. Good one, but you have to wonder

What kind of an asshole would show up wearing a Tigger Costume in the first place? What the hell is it supposed to mean? Did he get it only because it's orange? Since he's such an obvious shithead, he should have asked for "poo."

[bleever]

62. Too funny! n/t

[JI7]

46. good, i hope they keep up these type of protests

which most of all just turn people off to their side.

[gademocrat7]

50. Cograts to the new Gov!!!!!!!!!!!!

She fought hard to turn back the red tide!!! I hope she will remain in office. This proof that voter fraud can be overcome.

[LibDemAlways]

51. If Rossi had been sworn in and

Dems showed up to protest, the Seattle Times would have ignored them.

[Critical Thinker]

53. Just a bunch of looney conspiracy theorists. BAHAWAHA !!!

[praisethelowered]

55. This thread is really wrong-headed

I know it's funny to see the shoe on the other foot. . .

but isn't this the same problem we ALL have with voting that can't be verified? I don't know all there is to know about Washington but the gloating is kind of ugly. Shouldn't aeveryone be able to have confidence in the vote so that we won't have argument from EITHER side?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

70. Not at all. The recount in WA was conducted thoroughly.

Unlike Florida 2000. Anyway, funny screen name you got there.

[RandomKoolzip]

78. The difference is this:

In Ohio, there's pages and pages of evidence of vote fraud or at least all sorts of shenanignas involving touch screen voting machines.

In Washington, the republicans are just making shit up.

[Taverner]

57. Get over it!

You lost!

[Rainscents]

58. Washington State...

I wrote email to Rep. Mike Selle (D) regarding touch screen machine without paper trail and possibility fraud invole. He wrote me back today and this is what he said...

"I have the same concerns with touch screen voting, and discussed them
this morning with Snohomish County Auditor, Bob Terwilliger. What may be
part of the solution is to move to all mail voting as they have done in
the State of Oregon with scan read ballots on paper that go out to
everyone."

Mike Sells

[opiate69]

65. This Bob Terwilliger?

Hehe.. somebody had to do it.. we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

[BattyDem]

60. That's not a protest

THIS is a protest! :evilgrin:

(NYC - 2004 Republican National Convention)

[wabeewoman]

64. Rossi is also running commercials

I heard it on the radio when I was driving home about how the dead voted, soldiers voted weren't counted and how King County stole the election for Rossi and calling for a re-vote.Dan Evans and the former sec of state Monroe(I think) both supported a revote! I sure hope it back fires here. What is funny is they assume Rossi would win on a second vote and I don't think that is true-especially now that he is such a sore loser and claimed the title gov-elect before the votes were finished being counted.

[kurtyboy]

66. The soldiers not voting story is a pantload....

So far, one soldier has come forward to say he got his ballot in Iraq, one day after the general election, so he threw it away. HAd he cast his vote, even a day late, it would have counted, by Washington law.

There are special provisions in sate and federal law for overseas service-members: They don't have to register (!); their votes are given maximum latitude with respect to deadlines; and even if they don't get an official ballot, they can still vote a special Federal Ballot, and write in their selection for state and local offices in their home precincts. This is regardless of whether the County sent their ballots on time or not.

The GOP here right now is raising a huge stink over the fact that King County did not use their bulk mailing permit until six days after they said they sent overseas ballots--a smoking gun in the GOP eyes.

But the dumbasses haven't even checked out the process. Overseas ballots are sent in specially franked envelopes paid for by the federal government--no bulk-mailing permit is required!!!

But they'll go on shouting like lunatics--on the airwaves--and then claim that since so many people favor a revote, it ought to be done. Give DEMS as many hours to advertise, and as much fawning press coverage, and I guarantee the "will of the people" for a revote will evaporate.

Finally, while they make a lot of noise about felons voting, I'm not to worried. I bet most felons vote against an Attorney General and for the GOP--its a professional courtesy.

[Magmadona]

67. Good God they released the trailer park army!

Look its the 31st trailer trash army and their angry so angry they came out in costume like Tony the Tiger. Damn we're in trouble now.

[Psephos]

74. People who live in mobile homes may not find your put-down humorous n/t

[eridani]

82. Felons CAN VOTE LEGALLY in WA!

They have to ask for reinstatement. Only 11 states permanently bar felons from voting. My letter on the subject (unpublished so far).

The Revote people in Olympia had signs bemoaning the fact that ex-felons voted in the last election, but apparently did not bother to educate themselves about Washington voter laws, which stipulate that felons can have their right to vote reinstated. Only 11 states permanently bar ex-felons from voting, most of which (by sheerest coincidence, I’m sure) are former slave-holding states.

Being an ex-felon, besides being a permanent bar to voting in some states, is also a bar to working for companies that make gaming equipment. But not only does it not disqualify you from working for companies that make voting machines, it can actually rate a gold star on your resume. A Diebold subsidiary employed 5 convicted felons as senior managers and developers. These people helped write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states. Jeff Dean, senior programmer on Diebold's central compiler code, was convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, and he served jail time for planting back doors in his client's accounting software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years. You remember Diebold—that’s the company whose CEO promised to deliver Ohio’s votes to Bush.

If you want to worry about felons, worry about the ones who write the software that counts your vote and who won’t even let you look at it. Manufacturers of slot machines are required to have their software on file with gaming commissions—what have the writers of software for voting machines got to hide?

[fortyfeetunder]

88. New project for Tim Eye-Man (with Rossi's blessing)

That SOB is probably going to waste taxpayer money for an initiative to permanently bar felons and ex felons from voting.

And if he even tries to do that, we need to get his ass in jail so he can't be involved in politics...

[NoStinkinBadges]

71. Get over it, you lost....

[Flammable Materials]

75. Bee Oh Oh, Aych Oh Oh.

[SKKY]

80. So, after 3 recounts, the GOP still won't accept it?

Un-fucking-believable.

[cascadiance]

81. Taking a stand for "HypocRossi" I see!

nm

[Rhiannon12866]

83. The Republicans opposed a re-vote in fraud-plagued Ohio,

but the are calling for another one in Washington, where the votes have already been counted three times. It all depends on allegiances, and, IMHO, is pure hypocrisy.:grr:

[Cori Cycle]

84. I think

We got the better one elected, but I don't know anything about all those people in fancy dress having a ball. Who are those *-ers anyway. They certainly won't represente me.

[zann725]

86. I heard her speech (at the Swearing In) on CSPAN yesterday...

I was impressed. She's compassionate, yet tough...when she needs to be. She has very detailed plans as Gov. And hearing her speak, I thought...NO WAY is this tough lady EVER going to step aside for Rossi...no matter what!

[Cori Cycle]

87. I want to know

If she has plan for the single mothers who were removed from governmental support by the previous governor, all the while he spent tons of money building a useless conference center in desolated downtown Olympia.

This is how our previous governor Gary Locke dealt with the problem; when the protestor showed up wearing case number & and said, "People are not numbers," he decided to take a day off, and went into hiding. Each protestor had to write a note and asked the clerk to give the notes to the governor

So, our new governor, would she tough enough to show up to her work in a situation like that, and say, "Yes I took those mothers off welfare, and sent some of the mom and their kids to live on street. That was my decision," or would she just take a day off like Locke and hide and coward?

I am sure CSPAN won't tell you about such a thing. Now that she's in power, I wonder what she is going to do about those mothers. The last time I checked, moms living under poverty line don't have lobbyist in fancy dress having a ball, celebrating the victory of Christine Gregoire with Champaign. I am not about to forget those moms after getting to know some of them in person.

[Rhiannon12866]

89. Welcome to DU, Cori Cycle!!!

We're glad to have you with us!:toast:

Your concerns are very real and we share them. I took part in "actions" supporting the re-count in Washington, though I live in New York. What affects you affects us all. What you need to do is to support your causes and make every effort to bring them to the attention of your new governor and to have your friends, including those of us on DU, to support them, as well. There are a lot of us in your corner. We can get the job done if we can just get the attention of the right people.