I call the Red Bushie a Traitor.

We endorsed a Green in the non-partisan city council race.

it doesn't matter, you are still legitimizing a third party in a two-party system. even throw away endorsements of a green, like back in 2000, give greens in seattle a sense of legitimacy. if they want more progressive politics, great, the place to do that is democratic primaries. otherwise they are forced into being spoilers since that's the way the system is set-up.

until we change our voting system to irv or proportionality, green party candidates only hurt progressive causes (e.g. nader v gore). it's not fair, but it's the reality.

endorsing someone (joe szwaja) who has run in partisan races as a green, been an active member of the green party in seattle, recruited candidates (like aaron dixon) to run in other partisan races, simply legitimizes him and all his green supporters -- and will result in greens continuing to pop up in partisan races for years to come. szwaja supported nader in 2000 and 2004. he'll be voting for a green in 2008. so don't complain if a green pops up in the prosecutor's race, because you are part of the problem.

When we all know that just leads to more Reds being elected. Which makes it worse.

Now, when it turns out that Satterberg, who has tried to pose as a nonpartisan, has hired a dirty-tricks right winger? Satterberg says Shore is just doing mail, letters, and yard signs? In a campaign like this, that's the whole ballgame. He's clearly the main strategic consultant, at $2K/month, per the PDC.

Now Satterberg has been caught as a Karl Rove republican, and his statement basically says he's sorry he got caught. Let's hope that Satterberg does a little better due diligence in hiring his office staff than he's done in hiring his campaign staff. These excuses are getting pretty lame.