News Dino Rossi Likes Taxes
posted by on October 26 at 12:46 PM
Hey, I’m pretty psyched. My report on Dino Rossi’s announcement that he’s running for governor got linked on Daily Kos.
However, it also got linked on Sound Politics by Don Ward. Ward didn’t like that I was asking questions or that I do meth.
Here’s his account:
Now one would expect this sort of incompetence from an ass clown like Stranger staff writer Josh Feit who was also in attendance.Whoever Feit’s dealer is needs to get him a purer blend of whatever it is he’s been inhaling. The guy was rambling, incoherent and fidgeting like Tweek on South Park. First he starts with a question about Congress’ S-CHIP vote on childhood insurance - he must have been confused and thought he was at a Reichert or Doc Hastings kickoff. Then he goes all Woodward and Bernstein about transportation taxes and how Rossi voted for the Nickel funding package in 2003. A… fact… that… Rossi… has… made… widely… public… by… campaigning… on… it… ever… since… 2004… Right?
Maybe if Don wasn’t so busy checking me out and had paid more attention to Rossi’s speech, he’d understand that my questions were in direct response to Rossi’s remarks.
Rossi made a big deal in his speech about the fact the Gov. Gregoire hadn’t done anything on health care.
In fact, Gov. Gregoire passed an expansion of the state’s children’s Medicaid program last session, adding 38,500 kids to the state plan. Bush’s recent veto jeopardizes our state’s effort to insure more kids by killing about $90 million in federal funds. Governor Gregoire pressured our delegation in DC to trump Bush’s veto, so I asked Rossi what he thought about the veto. Pretty appropriate question …. unless you’re a conservative hack.
p.s. If anyone was acting weird, it was Rossi, who told me he hadn’t talked about health care in his speech.
Second, I didn’t say Rossi had voted for the nickel tax for roads. Rossi did.
In his speech, Rossi had two dominant themes: 1) Gregoire tries to solve all problems by raising taxes. And 2) Solving traffic congestion would be his number one priority as governor.
So, I asked Rossi how he would address our traffic problems without raising taxes. Rossi said he was happy to raise taxes to solve our transportation problems, and pointed out that he supported the nickel tax. Fair enough, Rossi is happy to raise taxes.
Loved the piece on Rossi, but you are a total spazmatic Josh.
He called you an ass clown, Mr. Feit? You gonna take that shit? Kick his ass.
Ah, Josh, we have been meaning to tell you to cut down on the meth you have been using. You know, just a heads up.
I think the biggest disadvantage of a Rossi governorship is that he would take a world champion motorcycle racer's approach to every problem. Traffic congestion? Well, go faster, pass the competition and win. If you can't pass, well, then you lost and so who cares what happens then?
Heath care? Well stick a titanim pin in the bone, give me something for the pain and get me back out on th track. That's fine for "The Doctor" but is it practical for the whole state?
It's interesting how drug-addicted Red Bushies seem to call hard working reporters druggies.
Kind of like how they project their own Big Government Big Bureaucracy Big Borrowing attitudes on others.
But what can you expect from such America-hating unpatriotic Red Bushies?
Not the truth, that's for sure.
thank god for weird fucking journalists, man
Josh-
In case you were not aware at the time...
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/its_official_rossi_is_running_for_govern
The guy in the yellow shirt IS Don Ward. Whether he's working for Rossi in some way or covering the event in his reporter duties, I don't know. But there he is.
I am actually glad that the next Stranger Public Enemy #1 is somebody who is a total douche and worth the time
Only ass clowns use the phrase ass clown.
Um, Number 9, you just did.
Oh.
Snap!
Wow. I just read that whole posting by Don and really want to burn my eyes out now. Not because I severely disagree with his politics (which I do), and not because he's such a big bawling baby (which he is) using this blog to whine about how much of a "high road" "journalist" he is (which he is NOT), but because of one phrase (paraphrasing here): "a fetching blonde flack Jill" and the content of that entire sentence referring to one of Rossi's staffers. Right there, and you don't have to even read the rest of the post to even see it, is what is so terribly disgusting, despicable and goddamn wrong with Republicans. I invite every woman reading this to join me and post a comment on his posting over there at soundpolitics and tell this Don Ward he's a pig.
Hey JBue, maybe Reporterward is going to take over the role played in 2004 by HA troll/commenter "Josef". He was waaaaay too hung up on Rossi's press aide Mary Lane, who he called (for reasons only he could understand) "Marummy".
But Josh is a crusty, crack-addled, ass-crown. Crusty still takes sonic senior Thurston Moore seriously, for fuck's sakes. Remember that: Crusty, the crack-addled ass-crown.
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