Sick Fish
03-10-2008, 07:40 PM
I was just told about this guy running for Governor in the State of Washington. If you live in that state you should really check this guy out and consider voting for him. We need guys like this in office.
Click HERE for his MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/leeroussoforgovernor)
A little intro from Lee Rousso's myspace page.
Why I am running for Washington State Governor, and why I will win:
On Monday, January 14, 2008, I borrowed Dori Monson’s powerful megaphone on Newsradio KIRO710 to announce that I am running for governor and will attempt to unseat Christine Gregoire in the Democratic primary on August 19, 2008. Thanks, Dori!
The initial reaction to my announcement is likely to be a mix of ridicule and disbelief, followed by waves of scorn, contempt and generalized derision. I don’t care. There are times in life when it is better to be a public fool than a private coward. This is one of those times.
This is a candidacy born out of what must surely be a world record case of buyer’s remorse. I voted for Christine Gregoire in 2004 and did so without hesitation. Now, I feel so disappointed and betrayed by her leadership that I wouldn’t support her re-election with a loaded gun to my head.
My affection for the governor began to sour on March 28, 2006, when she gleefully signed Senate Bill 6613, the so-called Internet Gambling Ban. Under SB 6613, the state can kick down your door in the middle of the night and haul you off to prison for five years for committing the “crime” of playing poker on the internet. And while you are rotting away in prison, the state can steal your house and throw your family out on the street. Really, who knew the Taliban had so much influence, and so far from home?
SB 6613 represents at best a hysterical overreaction to a nonexistent problem. At worst, it is the cold, hard boot of the government pressed against the neck of its citizens. Either way, SB 6613 is both indefensible and intolerable, and I will not rest while this monster still breathes. Oh, and by the way, SB 6613 also represents a gross violation of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Already crippled by SB 6613, my residual allegiance to the governor was extinguished in full by the Betcha.com extraditions, wherein the governor signed extradition warrants sending three of my clients, Nick Jenkins, Josie Imlay and Peter Abrahamsen, to face bogus gambling charges in Louisiana arising from a state-initiated transaction that netted Betcha.com seventy cents. While this space doesn’t allow for a recitation of the Betcha.com chronology, the upshot is that the extraditions combine the police misconduct of the Rodney King beatings with the political misconduct of Watergate. Christine Gregoire, of course, stars in the darkly calculating role of Richard Nixon.
We have plenty of other differences as well. For example, Gregoire’s support of the Proposition 1 ballot debacle showed a complete lack of leadership with respect to the perennially vexing issue of transportation. By one estimate, Prop 1 would have cost $16,000 for every man, woman and child in the taxing district. By a harsher ****ysis, it would have authorized new taxes of a staggering $50,000 per person. The citizens, naturally, recoiled in horror, proving conclusively that the governor is profoundly out of touch with the governed.
Lack of judgment (SB 6613), lack of character (unjust extraditions), lack of leadership (Prop 1). Had enough? Me, too.
From where I stand, I can look out over the political landscape and see all the votes I need to win in August. Or maybe it’s just these cheap dime store binoculars. Anyhow, my vote-gathering strategy has three components.
First, Democrats aren’t nearly as intolerant as Christine Gregoire thinks they are. I’ll be able to peel off the ten or twenty percent who reject the extreme overreaching of the nanny state.
Libertarians, of course, despise legislation like SB 6613. They should be an easy target. I should also be able to woo a significant number of independent voters, as they are likely to be offended by tyranny, oppression, revenge and taxes.
My ace in the hole, however, is Republican voters. I am not asking them to like me or agree with me, although it would be nice if they did. Instead, I am asking them to make a cold, raw calculation of their political self interest. If you had two chances to vote against Christine Gregoire, wouldn’t you use them both? If you could pick Dino Rossi’s opponent in the general election, wouldn’t you do it? Of course you would. You would be insane if you didn’t.
Adding these votes together gets me to at least fifty percent plus one in the primary. Yes, I’ve done the math.
Click HERE for his MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/leeroussoforgovernor)
A little intro from Lee Rousso's myspace page.
Why I am running for Washington State Governor, and why I will win:
On Monday, January 14, 2008, I borrowed Dori Monson’s powerful megaphone on Newsradio KIRO710 to announce that I am running for governor and will attempt to unseat Christine Gregoire in the Democratic primary on August 19, 2008. Thanks, Dori!
The initial reaction to my announcement is likely to be a mix of ridicule and disbelief, followed by waves of scorn, contempt and generalized derision. I don’t care. There are times in life when it is better to be a public fool than a private coward. This is one of those times.
This is a candidacy born out of what must surely be a world record case of buyer’s remorse. I voted for Christine Gregoire in 2004 and did so without hesitation. Now, I feel so disappointed and betrayed by her leadership that I wouldn’t support her re-election with a loaded gun to my head.
My affection for the governor began to sour on March 28, 2006, when she gleefully signed Senate Bill 6613, the so-called Internet Gambling Ban. Under SB 6613, the state can kick down your door in the middle of the night and haul you off to prison for five years for committing the “crime” of playing poker on the internet. And while you are rotting away in prison, the state can steal your house and throw your family out on the street. Really, who knew the Taliban had so much influence, and so far from home?
SB 6613 represents at best a hysterical overreaction to a nonexistent problem. At worst, it is the cold, hard boot of the government pressed against the neck of its citizens. Either way, SB 6613 is both indefensible and intolerable, and I will not rest while this monster still breathes. Oh, and by the way, SB 6613 also represents a gross violation of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Already crippled by SB 6613, my residual allegiance to the governor was extinguished in full by the Betcha.com extraditions, wherein the governor signed extradition warrants sending three of my clients, Nick Jenkins, Josie Imlay and Peter Abrahamsen, to face bogus gambling charges in Louisiana arising from a state-initiated transaction that netted Betcha.com seventy cents. While this space doesn’t allow for a recitation of the Betcha.com chronology, the upshot is that the extraditions combine the police misconduct of the Rodney King beatings with the political misconduct of Watergate. Christine Gregoire, of course, stars in the darkly calculating role of Richard Nixon.
We have plenty of other differences as well. For example, Gregoire’s support of the Proposition 1 ballot debacle showed a complete lack of leadership with respect to the perennially vexing issue of transportation. By one estimate, Prop 1 would have cost $16,000 for every man, woman and child in the taxing district. By a harsher ****ysis, it would have authorized new taxes of a staggering $50,000 per person. The citizens, naturally, recoiled in horror, proving conclusively that the governor is profoundly out of touch with the governed.
Lack of judgment (SB 6613), lack of character (unjust extraditions), lack of leadership (Prop 1). Had enough? Me, too.
From where I stand, I can look out over the political landscape and see all the votes I need to win in August. Or maybe it’s just these cheap dime store binoculars. Anyhow, my vote-gathering strategy has three components.
First, Democrats aren’t nearly as intolerant as Christine Gregoire thinks they are. I’ll be able to peel off the ten or twenty percent who reject the extreme overreaching of the nanny state.
Libertarians, of course, despise legislation like SB 6613. They should be an easy target. I should also be able to woo a significant number of independent voters, as they are likely to be offended by tyranny, oppression, revenge and taxes.
My ace in the hole, however, is Republican voters. I am not asking them to like me or agree with me, although it would be nice if they did. Instead, I am asking them to make a cold, raw calculation of their political self interest. If you had two chances to vote against Christine Gregoire, wouldn’t you use them both? If you could pick Dino Rossi’s opponent in the general election, wouldn’t you do it? Of course you would. You would be insane if you didn’t.
Adding these votes together gets me to at least fifty percent plus one in the primary. Yes, I’ve done the math.