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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Politics Number of the Day: 753

Posted by Bryan T. Bissell on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM

(A) The combined number of days King County executive candidate Susan Hutchison's campaign manager, Jordan McCarren, spent working on Sen. Sam Brownback's and Gov. Mike Huckabee's campaigns for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

(B) The number of pages that the Seattle Times alleges are improperly sealed in an age and race discrimination lawsuit filed by Susan Hutchison against KIRO in 2003.

(C) The amount of money Hutchison contributed to to George W. Bush in 2004.

(D) The age of the earth, in years, according to the Discovery Institute, where Hutchison has sat on the board of directors.

Answer's after the jump.

(B) It's the number of pages that the Seattle Times claims are improperly sealed in an age and race discrimination lawsuit filed by Susan Hutchison against KIRO in 2003 seeking damages for lost wages and "emotional distress, anxiety, mental anguish, pain and suffering, and humiliation and embarrassment." Hutchison was partially replaced by a younger, Asian-American woman the previous year.

Nearly 90 percent of the lawsuit's 859 pages, which could provide insight into Hutchison's professional demeanor, have been sealed. The Times has sued to unseal them, and a judge said this week that he would give his ruling on Friday morning. Hutchison is fighting to keep the records off limits.

For those of you who wonder why you guessed wrong, Hutchison only gave $500 to Bush in 2004. And yeah, McCarren did work for Brownback and Huckabee, but not for two years.

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As much as I dislike Hutchison and hope her campaign is a gigantic fail, I hope this isn't used against her.

It's pretty clear that after working for KIRO for 22 years and getting replaced by a younger woman, that she AT LEAST had good reason to suspect she was discriminated against.

Rosen has argued that keeping such records secret would promote settlements in court, which save the public time and money. He's also argued that unsealing records would discourage other people from filing discrimination suits against their employers.

I agree -- not only are you discriminated against, but if you file a lawsuit, your former employer digs up all the dirt they can against you and makes it public record, to try and prove they didn't discriminate? That's bad.

Posted by lizzie on August 5, 2009 at 4:40 PM

Note to self: don't sue to keep things private if you're running for private office and/or you're an extremist radical right wing evolution-denying Republican like Susan H.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 5, 2009 at 7:36 PM

(public office)

Posted by Will in Seattle

on August 5, 2009 at 7:38 PM

BTB - I like these posts. I've enjoyed all of them so far.

Posted by BombasticMO

on August 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM

Keep hammering away at her. Someone's got to do it. I can't believe she's still leading.

Posted by Oldskool on August 5, 2009 at 9:13 PM

I hope it's unsealed so we can cruelly laugh at her damaged vanity.

As an angry depraved faggot, it's the kind of thing I live for.

Posted by meowmeowkitty on August 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM

Is that an apostrophal lure.

Posted by Amelia on August 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM

This is Karl Rove level fear-mongering. Talk about real issues that affect people's lives instead of this guilt-by-association Willie Horton invoking journalism.

Posted by Avanti! on August 6, 2009 at 10:01 AM

i'm kind of confused by this. if the matter was legally sealed, why would we want it opened? i can see how this may not apply to her positions, and how - in a lawsuit - her adversary may have misrepresented her.

if it should not have been sealed in the first place, that's another matter.

can someone clarify?

Posted by in-frequent on August 6, 2009 at 10:56 AM

Susan is crazy craze

Posted by J to the Izzo on August 6, 2009 at 11:31 AM