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Monday, February 11, 2008

Luke Esser is Famous!

posted by on February 11 at 10:55 AM

Up now at Talking Points Memo

I already noted in the post below the comically unfolding story of Washington state GOP chair Luke Esser, who decided to stop counting the votes in the state GOP caucus with 13% of the votes still uncounted and has spent the last 24 hours coming up with increasingly ridiculous explanations of his actions.

TPM Reader NM just flagged this article in the Seattle Times which quotes Esser now saying that the state GOP is going to try to get as “close as we can to 100 percent” of the vote counted.

I mean, don’t knock yourself out, right?

I guess I’m not surprised that the GOP bigwigs are yawning over this. Huckabee’s just a speed bump they want to roll over and be done with. But I’m more than a little curious why the national political press hasn’t tuned in to this yet. This Esser fellow makes Boss Hogg look like a good government man.

Esser is the new Logan. Pass it on.

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Did you see the comment posted on Slog about how at some of the precinct gatherings they were giving more delegates to McCain even though more Huckabee supporters were present? Even the numbers that they ARE releasing are cooked.

Esser's not Logan. He's much worse than that.

Posted by Fnarf | February 11, 2008 11:01 AM
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Here's the link: http://www.moreperfect.org/wiki/index.php?title=Blog_Perfect#Did_the_Washington_State_Republican_Party_Misrepresent_McCain.27s_Victory.3F

Pierce County had more Huck than McCain people, but is sending more McCain delegates. The whole damn thing looks dishonest to me.

Posted by Fnarf | February 11, 2008 11:03 AM
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Ha ha ha!

Luke Esser is gonna be toast!

Posted by Tlazolteotl | February 11, 2008 11:14 AM
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FOX News had the chair of Hucakbee's campiagn on TV talking about the irregularities in the WAshington STate GOP last night, too.

Luke Esser = Katherine Harris!

Posted by unPC | February 11, 2008 11:16 AM
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and dean logan is still dean logan!:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/counteveryvote

Posted by cochise. | February 11, 2008 11:16 AM
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Fnarf...thanks for posting my link here. I was just about to do so. :-)

This is a huge story, actually, with National legs.

On Saturday night, the narrative (sorry Josh) that emerged was that Huckabee was sweeping. But, when Luke Esser called it for McCain, that narrative was stunted.

The story is not just that Esser called it too early, but that what he "called" has no basis in anything that can be called the results of the caucus. Luke Esser, himself, devised a way to crown John McCain the winner in Washington. This was a dishonest act.

I'm guessing Luke Esser hasn't done his last interview on this topic. :-)

Posted by Timothy | February 11, 2008 11:22 AM
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Lets connect the dots shall we...

Luke Esser worked for many years for Attorney General Rob McKenna.

Attorney General Rob McKenna is the state chair of the John McCain campaign.

Read this clip from a Seattle Times article--

"McCain's victory is giving new life to what was a well-connected, but largely invisible, campaign team in the state. Attorney General Rob McKenna is the chairman of the campaign. Former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton is the honorary chairman. Former U.S. Attorney Mike McKay and Fidler are co-chairs of the state steering committee. And in New Hampshire last night was former Secretary of State Ralph Munro"

Sounds like the fix was in and the Republican party leaders were deeply involved.

Then think about the Seattle Weekly article which listed Dino Rossi, Luke Esser, and Rob McKenna, and Bill Finkbeiner as the rising young stars of Eastside Republican politics.

Before you buy into any Dino Rossi hype about stolen elections by Democrats, you may want to take a look at the Republicans as well...

Posted by somethng smells | February 11, 2008 11:22 AM
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We should all cross out Obama on our useless primary ballots, and vote for Huckabee. Just to kick this story a little bit further.

I hope Huckabee sues today.

Posted by superyeadon | February 11, 2008 11:38 AM
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It's illegal to vote for a Republican in the primary if you signed in at the Democratic caucuses.

Posted by Fnarf | February 11, 2008 12:00 PM
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Who would've thought the republicans would ever miss Diane Tebelius?

Posted by Brian | February 11, 2008 12:03 PM
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Shocked! Shocked I am!

The concept that the GOP would LIE, CHEAT, and STEAL!

Oh, wait, we're talking about Republicans.

Never mind.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 11, 2008 12:09 PM
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The Huckabee delegates' battle cry at the Republican National Convention will be: "REMEMBER PIERCE COUNTY!"

Posted by Bub | February 11, 2008 12:30 PM
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Send an email requesting that all of the votes be counted and everyones voice be heard! comments@wsrp.org

Posted by Justin Keith | February 11, 2008 12:41 PM
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It's all a diabolical plot to make Chris Vance look good in comparison.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | February 11, 2008 2:44 PM
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Pfft the caucus was held and the votes are being counted. It was SAT night and the volunteers went home so they could get up and go to Church on Sunday. And here it is Monday.

I bet none of you know that this is the precinct vote, the primary vote is Tuesday the 19th, then there is a county get together, then the State convention and finally the national convention...it can change during this entire process.

Did someone fail to tell the Media?

Huckabee knows this and is getting free press ride.

So throttle back and idle down...or go crazy as I know you must. lol

Posted by Detter | February 11, 2008 6:53 PM
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Detter @ 15--

The Democrats managed to count 200,000 caucus voters and report them within hours. And you are saying it takes days to count your piddly ass 15,000 Republicans? Your party lied about Rossi getting robbed. Your party lied about the vote in Florida and Ohio--twice! And Luke Esser who worked for state McCain chair Attorney General Rob McKenna for years is lying now.

Posted by mckenna's bitch | February 11, 2008 8:43 PM

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