Would someone please put a ball-gag in Mike O'Brien and Will's mouth? Puhleeze?

There's no way we should be building a new 520 bridge without putting rail on it.

Electoral politics is about people - what they want, how much support they can get, and what is possible - if somebody in the entire King County wants to run but to date has not been willing to go up against an incumbent, this gives them a way around it, because they can run to get the other Top Two spot.

And when the elected incumbent is out of sync with the desires of his electoral area, it's far more likely they'll run.

Whatever you may think of his other policy stands, McDermott was right about that particular issue. At a time when many others in the Congress probably realized the case being made for war was bullshit but were too gutless to say so (paging Senator Clinton!) for fear of being called unpatriotic, McDermott provided one of the only audible dissenting voices. By continuing to slam McDermott for this you're proving the weasels and triangulators right -- better to play along with a trumped-up war and cry crocodile tears about the disaster when it's too late to do anything about it than to stand up for principle when it mattered and be forever labeled a collaborator.

Now THAT would be a great one!

Hasn't Bob Ferguson talked in the past about challenging him? I wouldn't be surprised if he did this time - the top two system makes it more interesting. Of course, if an R could get 34% of the vote, they make it in. Conversely, you could have R's who cross over to vote for someone like Ferguson, if they figure the R wouldn't stand a chance. That would kind of change in strategy makes it all the more intriguing.

The Port can't go back, and all the wheeling and dealing insider crap, on the public payroll, is over.

Pat, exit left stage and don't fall off the stairs.

Ron Simms in the best, Ferguson would be a fool to challenge him. Fool for sure and would destroy his future and waste his money.