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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Reichert a Moderate? The Burner Campaign Says No Way

Posted by on March 18 at 10:20 AM

Yesterday, eastside Republican Congressman Dave Reichert put out a press release positioning himself as a “moderate” in his race against Democratic challenger Darcy Burner.

After reading about Reichert’s press release on the Slog, Burner’s campaign manager, Zach Silk, sent this response:

They can spin all they want. It doesn’t change the facts: he has voted over 90% of the time with the Republican leadership, he is more conservative than 55% of the House, and he is more conservative than all of his Western Washington colleagues.

Any way you look at it Dave Reichert is too conservative for this district.

This debate over whether Reichert is a moderate traces, in part, to this article, which ran in the National Journal last month. (Scroll down and click on “The Centrists” for some of the data that’s at the heart of the controversy.) Get ready to see the National Journal article cited repeatedly by both campaigns as this race, which could help determine whether the Democrats take back Congress, starts to heat up.

Meanwhile, the great Burner debate has begun in the forums.