Slog - Comments on The Latest from the 46th

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:15:46 -0800

Interesting.

It's hard to time attack ads when people started voting two weeks ago, though.

Comment by StC

StC — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:50:27 -0800

I fail to see how having campaign related entries on an electronic calendar are a violation of any ethics.

Any large organization has some sort of synchronized calendaring application even if most people don't use it.

There is only one me. I keep one calendar. I plug my phone into my work computer and my home computer, and they sync my calendars. If people want to know why I'm not in a meeting, they see my calendar, and "oh, he is at the dentist" or, "oh, his kid is out of school early." Similarly, my work calendar being synced to my personal calendar allows me to decline personal events if, as is all too common, I have to work late.

So Scott White has campaign events in his calendar. I expect that, and it is useful information to his coworkers.

And does anybody give a flying fig about sending a single fax, or opening documents? Kee-rist. Like no government employee has never read personal email at work.

I have two family members who work for state government and the stories they tell about trouble people get in for simple things like web browsing at work are way paranoid compared to private workplaces.

(this message posted from my workplace, omg.)

Comment by RonK, Seattle

RonK, Seattle — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:08:03 -0800

In the big leagues of elected officialdom - Congress, for instance - schedule coordination is explicitly exempted from ethics prohibitions on commingling ones political and official affairs.

Comment by recall

recall — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:10:16 -0800

I voted for Pollet, but I increasingly wish I hadn't. He's acted so immature and been so whiny and shrill that I'm really thinking he's acting terrible unprofessional, and isn't someone I want representing me. He's starting to remind me of Palin; I can see him trying to fire a state trooper or similarly vindictive thing.

Comment by contributions

contributions — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:07:19 -0800

Pollet claims that he is "clean" of any corporate contributions, but then it comes out at the last minute that his nominal campaign is actually financed by big nuke waste companies? What a fake! Pollet crusades as if he only takes grass roots donations, but he is in bed with the big nuke companies.
And now we learn that the PDC forced him to pay back his own non-profit organization Heart of America that he runs because he illegally funneled money to support his campaign. Isn't that money laundering? Can't Pollet go to jail for that?

Comment by AlkiT

AlkiT — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:45:28 -0800

Pollet = petty

Comment by J.R.

J.R. — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:52:14 -0800

@3: Ron is correct that if White were already an elected official, ethics laws would allow him to mark campaign events on his office schedule (but not to post significant amounts of information on said events, as Jean Godden found out in her last campaign). It's a minor ethics hit, even if that bloated Republican gasbag Toby Nixon thinks otherwise. White's still the only qualified candidate in this race and Pollet's still a nutcase.

Comment by You are in the tank

You are in the tank — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:17:45 -0800

Erica
Nice to see the Stranger taking a break from writing press releases for Darcy to writing press releases for Scott White.

Only your pretzel logic could turn a finding of misconduct against White into a hit against Pollet. Whew!

Comment by Louis

Louis — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:31:53 -0800

and Scott White lied

Not in that District but clean campaign money is one of my highest items

Sunshine, sunshine, let there be sunshine in campaign finance