we'll here is a bandwagon if i've ever seen one.

shit, i spelled 'well' wrong. all i had to do was NOT type the apostrophe. damn.

Hey, at least you caught your own error before someone else decided to be a jackass about it. Congrats. :)

On the topic though... Is it just me, or does that quote have a "Minitrue" vibe about it? I've always been a supporter. We've always been at war with the Eurasians.

Has he been an Obama Supporter since day one?

Seattle's State Senator? WTF? Are Ken Jacobsen, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Adam Kline, Joe McDermott, and Margarita Prentice from Mars or something?

I endorsed Senator Obama after he announced he was running for President. That is what the figure of speech "day one" means.
Please see to blog sites documenting my involvement from this summer.

1:
Barack Obama Announces LGBT Leadership Council9 Aug 2007 by Mad Professah
Ed Murray, WA, State Senator Nancy Nangeroni, MA, Michael Noll, CA, Vice Mayor, Signal Hill Renae Ogletree, IL, Community Organizer Paul Provost, MN, Business Manager Rebecca Prozan, CA, Chair, Alice B. Toklas Club Nicole M. ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - http://buckmire.blogspot.com/
2:
Michelle Obama in Seattle---SHOUTOUT for Photos26 Jul 2007 by Howard Martin
My email address is in my profile over on the right side of this page. I will be offline later today until late Sunday, so please excuse any delay, but I will post them! BTW, I saw only one elected official at the event, Sen. Ed Murray.
howieinseattle - http://howieinseattle.blogspot.com/
Thanks,
Ed Murray

Well, that just about sews it up for Obama, then!

Well, of course. His choice of office decor was a dead giveaway. Ed has always had a framed photo of Dr. King in his office. I don't ever remember seeing an LBJ photo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/politics/11clyburn.html?ex=1357794000&en=2fe657eca309a1ff&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Mr. Murray, I am well aware of the meaning of the phrase "day one." That's why I was echoing your use of it in the quote posted on the Slog. What I was questioning was whether or not you actually were there from day one, as many people are prone to revisionist memories. I don't know you, so I wasn't sure if you were one of those people or not. Mitt Romney remembers his father marching with Dr. King (just not at the same time, in the same city, or while both were aware of it).

Your links show that you were involved from the start, though neither actually quotes you endorsing Senator Obama. That said, it's enough for me. You've been there since the beginning, that's established. The closest thing I can find online to an actual "endorsement" is this quote from King5 news:

Others endorsing him include are Seattle City Council President Nick Licata, state Sens. Ken Jacobsen, Derek Kilmer, Chris Marr and Ed Murray and a number of state House members.

Maybe I'm just not searching properly, but for an endorsement, it's oddly hard to find.

Good for him. I really loved that 1983 Orioles team.

PS~ I'm not some rabid Obama-maniac questioning your loyalty to the party. I honestly just wanted to know if you'd actually endorsed him when you said you did. A link to that endorsement was what I was looking for, or a press release, or a news article about it.

I live in the district you represent, and try to follow what you do, at least when it has an affect on me and my life. I apologize if some of my irritation over the Student Code of conduct expansion leaked through into this post.

Ed Murray was the endorser on the Grassy Knoll.

*chuckle* Thanks Napoleon. :D

Ivan @ 4

Yes--Margarita Prentice is from Mars--certainly not Seattle. She takes every opportunity to screw with Seattle she can.

The photo thing is odd. I also have a photo of two Irish Catholic American Politian JFK and RFK as well as a photo of this state's first openly gay elected official my predecessor Sen. Cal Anderson.......and my partner....who is Japanese American........and my dog....who is English....as far as when I endorsed him....Well I mean I guess you can check with the headquarters in Chicago....maybe I am just a silly fairy and got confused maybe it was the 5th day.....I am not sure what it proves if I endorsed him on the first day or the second....when people endorse me I just happy to get their endorsement and I am not particularly interested in when.......I read his book some years ago (Dreams of my Father) and we heard him speak at the convention in 04 and I knew after that speech I had not only read but heard a national figure who might move us forward on so many of the issues I care about. He is not where I am on all issues but I am not a single issue voter.......

Sweet. Gonna be fun on Saturday!

yawn...

Maybe you're a silly fairy, and maybe I'm a cranky queer, I don't know. I don't care first, second, or fifth day. My issue was did you do it in the beginning. The only things I can find saying you endorse him are all second hand things, like the quote from King 5.

That said, your word choice "I have been with Obama since day one. I did not wait to be asked and am serving on a committee." brought Orwell and 1984 to mind, for me.

I respect that you feel strongly about Mr. Obama and that you have for some time. My only issue was that while looking online I wasn't able to find any notice of an official endorsement from you. Was it a tacit endorsement, or did no one actually write down what you said?

You've shown that you have been working for the campaign, and various news outlets all agree you have endorsed Obama, but no one actually has that endorsement.

Phelix, I'm guessing the latter.

Sad. :(

I've got this irrational urge now to track it down somewhere. I even called Obama headquarters to ask them... both the Seattle and the Chicago branches. I'm not doubting that Sen. Murray did endorse Sen. Obama, but now I just want to know.

OK, I'll put my irrational hunting aside.

Phelix:
Maybe I am cranky queer who made up a fairy tale......
As I said call Chicago Headquarters. Call my partner ask and friends and ask them how I have gone on for the last three years about Obama (well it is not actually three years because his speech was in August 04 and this January 08....but I sure you get what mean by four years). I am not sure what you mean by an "official endorsement". I am a part time legislator; I don't even have a personal fax machine. I don't send out press releases on everything I do.... I called up and said I endorsed and sent money online...Chicago asked me to serve on a committee earlier in the year and to go around to events and speak. I guess I can get you copy of a receipt where I purchased Obama campaign buttons from a web site, before Obama had buttons or a web site! Anyway that is all the blogging I can do for the next several months. I have to go to somewhere even stranger then this conversation. I need to go someplace almost as stranger as this conversation for the next few months...Olympia.....but at least it on the planet earth........

Good enough? I think NOT!

Heh, heh.

Tiptoe Tommy @ 13:

You know, there are such things as Legislative District maps out there. Maybe if you looked at one you might discover that parts of SODO and Beacon Hill are in Margarita Prentice's 11th District.

Sen. Murray,

I don't think you're making it up, I just was looking for some kind of notice of it. Like when Gov. Locke endorsed Hilary Clinton, or when any other well known politician endorses another. I don't keep up with Seattle politics that much, but your name is one I know and one I regularly expect to see in the Times or the PI. I had expected if you had given an endorsement there would have been notice of it.

That said, the "cranky queer" was entirely aimed at myself... though, for a few moments after I hit post I was in shock that I'd actually called an elected official a "silly fairy."

Good luck in Olympia, and remember the students. Many of us watch what you do and hope.