Stealth Republicans in "nonpartisan" clothes

[suffragette]

Coming soon to a town near you?

With Republicans being rejected by voters, it looks like they are trying new tactics to get into office.

Here in King County (Seattle's county) with our strong Democratic history, a new game plan has become evident.

1) Change a partisan office (in this case King County Executive) to a non-partisan one
2) Run a candidate with a high general, though not political) recognition
3) Avoid questions about policy to do with human services, women's health or any of those pestering issues that will out the candidate as the partisan Republican that person is
4) Don't forget to pound the drum on lowering taxes (especially for businesses) and reducing benefits hard won by unions

Meet Susan Hutchison:

She campaigned for King County Executive to become a nonpartisan office and keeps insisting how nonpartisan she is and the office should be.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/closet-case/Content?oid=1393918

She used to list her past position on the board of the Discovery Institute (that wacky creationist organization), but dropped it. And now they've scrubbed her name off their list. (Hint to Republicans trying to hide their history - there's something on the internet called the Wayback machine at archive.org that makes the hidden visible again.)
http://horsesass.org/?p=14836

Despite all the nonpartisan posturing, her contribution history is - surprise, surprise - purely Republican.
http://www.majorityrules.org/blog/2009/07/susan-hutchison-nonpartisan-myth.html

Her campaign manager is associated with BIA, which funds every anti-Democratic campaign in Washington state.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009320612_hutchison10m.html
"McCarren is an associate in Dresner, Wickers & Associates, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that was paid more than $9 million over four years from independent campaigns funded by the Building Industry Association of Washington. Much of that money went to support Dino Rossi's unsuccessful 2008 bid to topple Gov. Chris Gregoire."

Hmm, stealth candidates - the new Republican strategy?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. What's Cantwell's excuse?

:grr:

[suffragette]

2. Cantwell is in her own category, isn't she?

She reminds me of something I once read in the Farmer's Almanac about being skeptical of averages:
A person has one foot in a bucket of ice water and one in a bucket of boiling water, so on the average the person should feel fine.

For Maria, that would equate to one foot on the west side and one in the east, with her finger waving in the air trying to calculate how to appease both, but satisfying neither.