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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

BREAKING: Local Republican Can’t Take it Anymore

Posted by on March 14 at 12:50 PM

In another blow to the Washington State Republican Party’s efforts to moderate its image, Republican State Representative Rodney Tom of Bellevue is quitting the party and becoming a Democrat:

“I realized the far right has complete control of the party and for me to be effective for my constituents I need to be a Democrat,” Tom said.

He said being a Democrat is not only a better fit for the changing political demographic of the 48th Legislative District, but a more comfortable fit for his ideology, which includes support for legal abortion, gay rights and higher taxes for transportation.

As a newly-minted Democrat, Tom will be challenging Republican Luke Esser for his state senate seat in the 48th.


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Rodney Tom is gonna get shit from the GOP.

Be sure to download the print quality pic of Luke Esser..he looks airbrushed or something.

Please let this pebble be the start of a landslide.

Republican or Democrat, Rodney Tom is a great centrist and will be an asset to his new party. I hope he wipes the floor with Esser and his plastic face.

More, more, more - Please someone post the campaign address and let's all send a few bucks. Stranger, make a big fuss of giving him free ads ..... you all hate Esser, I am sure. And I am sure you have readers over there - still amazed that you use the word fuck a lot. They take the Stranger home in a paper bag.

Esser is a real phony. There continue to be rumors that he is deep closet - "a fabulous year in Olympia, followed by - "a fabulous this.... and a fabulous that" ----- in a recent cable interview. In any case his politics are fucking horrid.

Organizing Dems on the Eastside will help defeat Eyman too.

Good, good, good.

Saying "fabulous" means you're gay? Uh-oh.

I do hate Luke Esser though.

Is Esser's day job still a King County council staffer? Has he done anything in that capacity or does he know about government waste and ineffectiveness firsthand?

Yay! Good for Rodney! Turned away from the Dark Side, did he.

Don't forget that Rodney is still going to get his butt handed to him by the real Democrat in the primary, Debi Golden. So there will be no Luke v. Rodney.

I agree. The only reason Rodney turned away from "the dark side" is because he's afraid he can't beat the former mayor of Kirkland. He's still going to try and go to Olympia, and get his pockets lined with his pro real-estate development bills (he's a real-estate agent of course!!). Debi Golden however remians the only true Democrat in this race and any progresive voter will see right through Rodney's pathetic scheme.

FNARF - ref above

Sure, it is so simple.....with practice. Ask Dr. Dan.

A thouand clues flaking off every five seconds.

Reading them is easy after you have screwed 550 men.

No, just joshing, some words are just not used by straight guys in that manner, density / intensity and with all the fluid body language, facial tics, and ......etc.

Not that it really matters, his politics are stinking offal..... maybe puss laced fecal.

Go Rodney. 50 bucks pledged here.

Luke Esser works for Atty Gen. McKenna, and used to work for McKenna when he was a KC councilman.

U Smith: bullshit. "Fluid body language"? Luke Esser's sexual orientation has been covered in the Stranger before, and I'm not convinced. Or interested, really. But I find your conflation of effeminancy with homosexuality stupid.

Is this the Stranger or what? You all are gonna vote for a man just because he suddenly "declares" himself a D after being an R for so long. If he's really fed up with the right wing of the Rs, he'd do more good staying an R--reforming the Republicans from within. They'd still throw him money if he stayed in the Representative race. And, is this really going to help the fight against Esser? He just gave Esser a nice helpful boost by forcing Debi into a race with him, too. What are Rodney's real motives? 50 bucks pledged here to Debi.

FNARF -

I did not use the word effeminate. You did.

I think all that old macho stuff is ----well, silly.

I think he is gay - and I read the post where someone at the Stranger called him up and he said --- what me, no. Someone pushing 40, living a lie for a long times as an adult, does not give it up on a phone call.

Most likely he monitored his swish very carefully for weeks after the questioning call.

I fees sorrow for the man if he is in the closet.

AND his politics stink. AND as I think you know, gay male crusier types read every male above puberty to 55 they enocunter -- on the bus, in school, at work, next door. Built in curiosity, and enjoyable.


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