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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Early Returns

Posted by on September 19 at 21:21 PM

The early results are in (and we mean very early results—only 4,037 votes have been counted) and Jamie Pedersen is in the lead, with 1,044 votes. Pedersen, who’s holding his election-night party at his beautiful home in east Capitol Hill, said “the early numbers don’t mean anything”—although, asked how many votes he’d received, Pedersen recited the numbers by heart. Pedersen’s spread included chips and salsa, turkey wraps, and homemade cookies that Pedersen baked himself.

Over at Stephanie Pure’s campaign party, about two dozen people (including city council members Jean Godden and Pure’s boss Peter Steinbrueck) gathered over pizza and beer to await the results. When the early returns put Pure in fifth place over labor candidate Lynne Dodson, Pure campaign consultant Jason Bennett quipped that campaign consultants “Linda Mitchell and Karen Cooper should have asked Lynne to drop out, not Stephanie.” Early in the campaign, Mitchell and Cooper urged Pure to drop out of the race so that their candidate, Dodson, could enjoy the benefit of being the only female candidate.

Meanwhile, as we left Pure’s party, Steinbrueck called out over his shoulder: “If Jamie wins, Preston Gates [the lobbying and law firm for which Pedersen works] wins. It’s the cheapest way they can get what they want in Olympia—just elect somebody.


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Very cheap shot by Peter S. --- I never thought he was esp. bright --- but that is just plain silly ---- considering he has been riding daddy's coattails since birth and sucking on the silver spoons ---

Stupid Peter, just plain stupid.

Keep an eye on Godden and that beer... she's a mean drunk.

The was the Grande Old Olympic, n'est pas?

I had totally forgot that election day was TODAY.

However, never fear: that absentee ballot was sent off two weeks ago.

Wasn't the Marine Room an old Whiz Kidz club in the Smith Tower basement?


There are no silver spoons in Steinbrueck's family. Do your homework.

If "just electing somebody" is as cheap and easy as all that, how come you didn't do it for Stephanie, Peter? It was a cheap shot. Frustration? Maybe he should be working for Pure instead of the other way around.

Peter's actually right - PGE has an enormous amount of influence on the political life and official policies of Seattle/King County, and they already had a good toehold in Oly, too...

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