Damn you, Pollet! Daaammmnn youuuu!!!

I've heard nickels has $2,1,30,232.00,23!!

No one but you has questioned the integrity of Dean Fournier, who says he found the extra ballot. Dean is so clean he squeaks.

If Dean says he found the extra ballot, then he found the extra fucking ballot. But you know what? Dean also says that no matter what he found, he knows it's not official, and he told that to me right up front.

So nobody in the 46th is trying to put anything over on anyone else as far as I can see. I was up there Thursday for the whole meeting, and I have talked to all the players about what happened, and you most assuredly have not.

So shut the fuck up, get the fuck on out of here, and quit trying to throw shit at good people. They work their asses off for the Democratic Party and for our communities, and you're just some asshole who posts shit on some blog.

I thought you Vashon Islanders were supposed to be all zen and shit, what happened?

Hey, buddy, Maybe *you* let people walk all over *your* friends. I don't.

Referring to him as just the "business" candidate really belittles his progressive agenda. He's raised the money by getting a lot of people excited about his campaign early on. This guys is for real and it's be great to have someone as capable as him in the State House. Might actually help the Dems get something done there.

Didn't mean to sound too excited, just wanted to point out he's more than a bizness man. As am I, I hope.

Nice story on the race btw. And sort of funny. I think the Democratic party establishment is going to see some big changes this year - lots of new blood. Obama leading that wave. Reuven following that trend on a local level.

To me it sounds like you've got a good ol boys club there where everybody is supposed to go along because of what good friends they are. Good friends should go hang out at the bar together and maybe hug a lot. Being friends does not add legitimacy to a vote. When your feelings prevent you from seeing that you are presenting the people with an apparently corrupt process, you have a problem. Don't expect this to boost the fund raising. I know I wouldn't give money to anybody who says "Stop asking questions; just trust us."

this is a club that has no public funding and should not be controlled by the government. ECB is doing exactly what should be done about this by reporting it.

Usually the districts require 60% or more to get an endorsement so really with a vote so close a dual endorsement would be the solution.

Ivan - as for the name calling by TT - not to worry that's what he does. You have committed the sin of not supporting his rail meal ticket.

Maybe if you got off your smug, know-it-all -- but really ignorant -- high horse and became a participant instead of just being a pontificator, you'd come to find out that it's not at all what you have concluded.

Shit happened Thursday night in the 46th District just like shit happens everyehere else and to everyone else, almost certainly including *you.*

Their verification process for the original ballot count was slipshod and did not include extra procedures that would have made it airtight. All players have confirmed this to me in person and have accepted responsibility.

I stick my nose into this so as to forestall anything like that happening in the District where I preside for now, the 34th. It is my responsibility to understand these procedures and master them. Fortunately, we nominated our unopposed candidates by acclamation and didn't have to face these problems this time.

The process was not and is not "apparently corrupt," and the 46th District, in particular, is anything *but* a "good old boys club."

But you just stay in your little ignorant bubble, OK, and believe what you want to believe, OK? Just don't expect to run your shit past those of us who practice local politics every day and, uh, know the facts.

You could get involved and learn something, and not have to depend on Erica C. Barnett's second- and third-hand "reporting." But I guess that's too much to ask.

You remain full of shit, and just a bomb thrower. Fournier told the world that he knows there's nothing official about this, and everyone agrees that it is the case. The fact that he took the ballots home (which everyone agreees he should not have done) is meaningless except to conspiracy theorists.

By "accepting responsibility," I mean admitting "we fucked up," which is exactly what they copped to.

You don't know what happened and I do. you didn't talk to the people, and I did. You don't know jack shit except what "appeared" to be true.

That won't cut it. You're a fucking dilettante in local politics, and you are not credible any more.

Fnarf, you're like the folks who bitched on here about being "disenfranchised" by the caucuses.

The Democratic Party is a PRIVATE organization, not funded by any tax dollars, and bound by its own rules.

This is not a "fundamentally corrupt" act, and it is enough to admit the mistakes that were made.

The ballots weren't "unsecured." He took them home precisely to keep a record of them. They could have thrown them away in the trash afterwards, I suppose. What he did was a good thing, even if it led to catching this mistake.

If the 46th wants to take a revote, that's their business and their choice, but ultimately the rules were followed and the result was announced at the meeting. In the end, it's not all that different from discovering that someone was in the bathroom when the vote was taken and didn't get a chance to vote.

This wasn't an official election that gives anyone any right to anything having to do with the government or my tax dollars. So get over it already!