We didn't have room in this week's issue to name another one of the biggest losers in the 2009 election. So here she is:

• Victoria Renard

Cindi Laws

In the world of campaign managers, there are winners, and there are cougars. Oh, and also cougars who lose elections. For example, Cindi Laws, the veteran campaigner in Seattle wore a leopard-print blouse on election night to the party for her losing candidate, Tom Carr. She’d also managed the campaign for mayoral candidate James Donaldson, who came in fourth place in the primary. Donaldson, a business-minded conservative by Seattle standards, never had a chance with Laws by his side—because she wasn’t even by his side. At a summer meeting of the 34th District Democrats, Donaldson was seeking the group’s endorsement. But when it was time for someone to second Donaldson’s nomination, Laws was gone. Apparently in the hallway having a little chat.

Laws has become increasingly erratic in recent years. In her bid for monorail board in 2005, she blamed Jewish people for opposing the monorail in an endorsement meeting with the King County Labor Council—an endorsement she lost, obviously. This year, Laws left her post as the manager of Pete Holmes's campaign for city attorney (which won big) to work for Carr (who lost with a bang). She campaigned for Carr by attacking Holmes for—allegedly—failing to be a practicing attorney. The accusation prompted the state bar association to issue a document showing that Holmes was indeed a practicing attorney in Washington—and had been for 24 years—thereby erasing doubts about his qualifications, but raising serious concerns about Laws’s grip on reality.

The rest of the losers—and the triumphant winners—are over HERE.