Her background is leftist, with her campaign work and 5 figure incomes from democrats Betty Sue Morris, Steve Stuart and Pam Brokaw while she was on the local GOP Executive Board, all while Republicans were working their collective asses off, most for free, to get Tom Mielke elected.
Her position as the Mainstream Republican coordinator or director for Clark County has always bugged me: More adequately named "Republicans In Support of Leftist Causes," Pike's involvement in that organization and her subsequent efforts at election remind me of the disaster of a self-promoting incompetent GOP Chair from Pacific County named Nan Malin.
In 2008, Tom Mielke faced off with Pam Brokaw for the County Commissioner seat.
Brokaw had it all: slavish media support (This newspaper hates Mielke with an almost admirable passion; he and Benton are vilified on a regular basis for sins both real... and imagined) all the money (Brokaw out-raised Mielke on the order of 3 to 4 to 1) and the lockstep support of the downtown mafia. In fact, today's campaign for the commissioner seat resembles much the same thing.
But what Brokaw didn't have was the courage of her convictions.
Brokaw "declined" to take a position on the CRC Bridge/loot rail/tolls scam.
Brokaw "declined" to take a position on the massive rip-off of the Cowlitz Mega-casino, although the Cowlitz dumping something like $78,000 on this race on Brokaw's behalf in the last 3 days of balloting served to confirm what everyone in politics knew but that Brokaw lacked the guts to say: she rabidly supported the casino rip off... she just lacked the guts to say it, because she knew it was poison county-wide.
And in the end, something like 6700 people voted for Obama... and then turned around and voted for Mielke.
And now, we get to the question of gay marriage.
On the subject of gay marriage, Shehorn agrees with recent legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry. Pike declined to disclose her personal view on the subject."Pike declined to disclose her personal views on the subject."
That is absolutely unacceptable.
The issue of gay marriage may well have several legislative components over the next few years.
Pike wants to be our legislator; this is legislative issue, she has precisely zero right to avoid providing a position on this issue; she gets no free pass.
I have many requirements on the part of those who represent me: courage is foremost among them. There can only be 2 positions on the issue; you support gay marriage or you oppose it.
There can only be so many reasons why a politician won't tell us their position on the issue: They support gay marriage and they know it will kill them politically, or they oppose gay marriage and they know it will kill them politically.
OK, whiteboarding this, the history of the 18th District is one of staunch opposition to gay marriage.
So why would an allegedly conservative Republican be ashamed of her position on this issue?
Those running for office do not have the right to withhold their position on ANY issue we want to know about.
Declining to LET us know means that Pike's loyalty is much more to her Mainstream, gay-marriage supporting buddies then it is to the constituents of this district.
As a result, I cannot support Pike for election to anything.
I would not be happy if she had drank the kool-aid and supported gay marriage openly. But this seems to go to why she attracted democrat money to her campaign... because she's much more leftist then she would want us to believe.
I wouldn't be nearly this angry, though, if she had the courage of her convictions and let us know what those are... what ALL of them are if we ask, because now I'm asking myself: what else has she "declined " to share with us?
When I last saw Liz, who I have had numerous problems with politically, I told her "you are not the enemy."
With her lack of courage and conviction on this, or any issue as she seeks to represent us, that's all changed.
If you lack the guts to take a position on ANYTHING; then you shouldn't be in elective office. And I cannot stand idly by and let this go.
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The only way the incompetent Jaime Herrera could have won her U.S. House seat is if Democratic League-of-Women-Voters crossed over. LOWV are sexist pigs who choose sex over ideology, and Ms. Pike has to make sure she doesn't look like a flaming Conservative to get those votes.
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