Slog - Comments on Esser Outtakes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes I've interviewed new Washington GOP state chairman Luke Esser a couple of times in the last few days since he was elected Saturday by the GOP rank and file to replace Diane Tebelius. Excerpts from the interviews will appear in this afternoon's print edition of The Stranger, but I had to leave some stuff out. Thanks to Slog, I can post the cutting room floor right here. So, here are a couple of interesting quotes from Esser. Esser on Dave Reichert: "If not for his larger-than-life persona as the sheriff who caught the Green River Killer, he would not have... Copyright 2008 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:03:18 -0800 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:34:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com You should have asked him if he is going to promote more “Democrats love Gay people and Gay people = Sex predators that want to kill your kids.” Fear mongering mailers and robo-calls that we saw in the 26th LD and across the state.

]]> Jake of 8bitjoystick.com http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605381 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605381 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:44:17 -0800 Comment by Foleygate That is some glass house Esser lives in, calling out Mark Foley by name as the ruination of the Rep. party.

SOMEONE PLEASE OUT THE MO-FO!

]]> Foleygate http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605421 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605421 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:21:19 -0800 Comment by Particle Man Luke should quit is $84,000 job with the AG's office effective this past monday. He has been running the state GOP party while drawing a state salary and this vialates RCW 42.52. Also Rob McKenna who Luke works for has broken his oath of office by facilitating Luke's continued employment while he spends his time running the GOP.
Its just more corruption from your friends at the GOP.

]]> Particle Man http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605442 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605442 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:38:35 -0800 Comment by Jake of 8bitjoystick.com The the real question Particle Man is how many pigs did he fuck when he was running?

]]> Jake of 8bitjoystick.com http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605497 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:42:19 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Hope Luke has fun with the GOP cock-us.

As Wonkette plaintively begged last fall, is there even one heterosexual Republican left or are they all self-hating homos?

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605548 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605548 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:41:58 -0800 Comment by Jensen Interceptor I think it is fascinating that the state GOP came so very close to having
Rossi become the state's governor. That certainly would suggest they are not dead in the water, however Esser appears to represent the state GOP's financial base which is particularly conservative both in in its social and political foundations.

I am curious if the Rossi showing was a fluke, and regardless of who the GOP puts up as a future candidate, they will fail. Esser's belief that federal GOP failures have led to failures within the state to support its GOP are interesting in that would substantiate the notion that Washington state's GOP has no particularly strong popular support. That surely doesn't spell well for the future of the state's GOP, and it certainly would question what Esser is going to do. Logic would demand fielding candidates who appeal to the liberal bias of the state's population...especially on west side, however will the GOP's financial and political base allow that to happen?

Lastly, might we see a new faction of the Republican party develop in this state whose interests and platforms
are outside those of the current GOP base? The time certainly would be
ripe to see this happen.


---Jensen


]]> Jensen Interceptor http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605696 News Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:09:34 -0800 Comment by sidney now the real, real, real truth - Josh

did he put his hand on your leg during the interview?

with that little squeeze thing?

the big time outing of a slime machine, Luke Esser, is the next explosion in the fucking face of the right wing, I can't wait for that event

fun, fun, fun - please Stranger, get the video - we all know it is out there

]]> sidney http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605891 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/esser_outtakes#c605891 News Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:34:20 -0800