Haugen lost 3 votes here today.

Look, I admit it: Jaime Herrera is a disaster as a representative in Congress, much like she was in the legislature.

Her pro-bridge/light rail tolls shtick will hurt this area for decades, sucking $100's of millions of dollars out of our local economy in tolls for a bridge replacement, light rail and tolls that we do not want, do not need and cannot afford.  There is no way I would ever vote for her for anything except, perhaps a "guilty" verdict.

So, along comes Jon Haugen, democrat (this time) the only one with the guts to take Babs on.  His positions on the CRC scam are music to a conservatives ears.  I was going to vote for him, as was my wife and kids.

The operative word being "was." 

And then, today, I find out he's got a screw loose.

In an email unsolicited exchange between Haugen and Retired Navy Commander Larry Patella (Haugen, too, is a retired Navy Commander) he lifted the mask and showed a true, genuine, whack job:

From: Jon Haugen [mailto:jthaugen@yahoo.com]


Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 8:33 PM

To: Local Mailing List

Cc: WA-03 N David Madore; WA-03 V MOAA BETH BROWN; Clark CC Tom Mielke; WA-03 N Columbian Stevie Mathieu; MOAA Shoemaker; JT Haugen; judgejohnwulle@comcast.net

Subject: WA-03 Larry Patella, bigot

Sunday, 22 July 2012

Hi Larry,

I know you are bigoted toward our President probably because his skin color is not white. You had a letter published in The Reflector claiming Barack Obama was a Muslim when you knew he was not, you lied.

I do not know you well but I have not attended local Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) because of your association with that group.

I hate to say that a fellow retired Navy Commander is a bigot but you have proven your self to be a bigot.

Please remove my name from your mailing list. I do not wish to be associated with you.

Jon Haugen

Commander, Naval Reserve, Retired.

As a former commissioner Army officer, I am embarrassed that this kind of political bigotry can be expressed by some one who makes such a big deal, not only about his service but the service of others not even running.

That said, one may have the opinion that Obama is a muslim without being a bigot in any way.  One can have the opinion that Obama and his policies have been a disaster that will take generations to recover from without care or concern over Obama's half-white heritage... and one can feel free to oppose him entirely for political and philosophical reasons, much like I've opposed democrat morons of the past like the previous worst president in the history of this country,. the lily-white Jimmy Carter.

But one can't do and keep MY vote is attempt to brand someone and label someone for an opinion that wasn't apparently, expressed directly to Haugen but instead, through a newspaper (I can't find the article in question) as if the First Amendment was the First Suggestion.

If opposition to the sheer, unadulterated idiocy of that empty-suited, anti-American racist bigot occupying the White House just nowmakes me a "bigot", then I guess I'll have to live with it.  But in this instance, that opposition is not because of the color of the source of that idiocy but because of the idiocy and incompetence itself.

That Haugen is so twisted that he either doesn't know or cannot differentiate the difference disqualifies him for consideration for election to anything... including dog catcher.