Politics McGavick: Even Less True Than Before
Last weekend, I interviewed GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mike McGavick in Moses Lake, WA.
When I asked McGavick what he thought of our state’s gay civil rights bill, passed by the legislature this year, he told me he was running for federal office, and so didn’t talk about state issues.
“I do not and will not talk about state issues, because I’m working at the federal level. I’ve been asked about the gas tax last year. I’m now being asked about this. I’ll be asked about other things. I do not comment on state initiatives because I’m focused on the federal issues.”
He told me he was simply following a precedent set by Sens. Warren G. Magnuson and Henry Jackson (way to take yourself way too seriously, dude!).
To which I responded, “The precedent for not answering questions?”
To which he got pretty mad.
Anyway, I’ve already refuted that claim once, pointing out that on a campaign stop in Colville, WA. (dam country), just a few days earlier, he criticized I-937, the state initiative that promotes solar and wind power.
Well, looks like it’s time to call double bullshit on Mike “I don’t talk about state issues!” McGavick.
Just four days after telling me he doesn’t talk about state issues!, McGavick told the Seattle Times that he thought I-200 (the anti-affirmative action initiative passed in the state in 1998) was the right thing to do.
The Seattle Times wrote on July 26:
[McGavick] also led an effort to fund minority scholarships at the University of Washington after Initiative 200 banned racial preferences in public-school enrollment. McGavick was not living in the state when I-200 was approved in 1998 but said he would have voted for it.
And, it turns out, on a campaign stop in Oak Harbor on July 6 (thanks Democrats, for taping all this stuff), McGavick told voters how to vote in this year’s heated state Supreme Court races.
Here’s McGavick not talking about issues! at the state level:
This judicial activism must be brought under control, and the simplest thing we can do at the state level is elect judges who are focused on providing the right kinds of adjudicating. And I’ll tell you there’s a couple of, I think, great candidates for the state Supreme Court, for example. John Groen and Steve Johnson I think are terrific candidates who have pledged themselves to restraint and I think that’s the kind of judges we want.BTW: I met both of these candidates yesterday, and they’re both partisan conservatives, particularly GOP line state Sen. Stephen Johnson (R-Auburn/Covington). The other, John Groen, a property rights attorney, is being bankrolled by the conservative Building Industry Association of Washington.)
So, now we know that not only is he a liar, but he's a repeated liar.
Anyone doing any stories on those stock options he "got as a reward" from Safeco, or is the press gutless still?