When republicans are idiots: WA State GOP hasn't paid legal fees for Top 2 case.

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Besides idiotically supporting democrat Tim "The Liar" Leavitt, Washington State GOP'ers have additional idiocy to contend with: They've failed to pay an owed $55,000 legal bill to the state for their multiple moronic challenges to this state's Top Two election system.

The stupidity of the state GOP continuing to whine and snivel about the will of the people as expressed in the vote changing this state to the top two vote getter system for primary elections, SHOULD be self-evident.

I advocated all along that the leftists who ignore anything approaching diversity of thought should take all the heat for bitch-slapping the people of this state in their effort to avoid losing a little power.

That said, the state GOP owes $55,000 in what seems like hard dollars for their failed effort to again ignore the will of the people. And how idiotic is that? What did it get them?

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Originally published Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:35 PM

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Wash.: GOP hasn't paid legal fees for Top 2 case

The state says Washington's Republican Party is deadbeat in repaying legal fees associated with a failed challenge to the Top 2 primary system.

The Associated Press

SEATTLE —

The state says Washington's Republican Party is deadbeat in repaying legal fees associated with a failed challenge to the Top 2 primary system.

In a federal court filing Monday, the Attorney General's Office wrote that while the Democratic Party has paid the $37,700 it owes, the Republicans haven't made a dent on their $55,000 bill. Furthermore, Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey T. Even says a GOP lawyer told him not to expect payment any time soon.

The Libertarian Party has also failed to pay. It owes $16,300.

The political parties sued to challenge Washington's Top 2 primary system, by which the top two finishers in a primary advance to the general election. Washington lost in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and paid the parties' legal fees. But after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the decision of the appeals court, a federal judge in Seattle ordered the parties to repay the state.

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