Justin Riley
Everyone should have their ballots now, so my endorsements for the 2012 Washington State Primary are as follows. We have an incredible opportunity this year to make our State a little less blue, and a lot more sane - from McKenna in the Governor's Mansion to a fiscally responsible State Legislature: let's not waste this opportunity!My particular position is that the election of McKenna, Dunn and Finkbeiner won't make this state any different in color at all, since they're essentially as leftist as any democrat in state government today.
Governor: Rob McKenna
Lt. Governor: Bill Finkbeiner
US Senate: Michael Baumgartner
US House: Jaime Herrera Beutler
Attorney General: Reagan Dunn
Auditor: James Watkins
Secretary of State: Kim Wyman
Washington Supreme Court, Pos. 9: Richard Sanders
State Senate, 17th: Donald Benton
State House, 17th Pos. 1: Julie Olson
State House, 17th Pos. 2: Paul Harris
State Senate, 18th: Ann Rivers
State House, 18th Pos. 1: Brandon Vick
State House, 18th Pos. 2: Liz Pike
State Senate, 49th: Eileen Qutub
State House, 49th Pos. 1: Debbie Peterson
State House, 49th Pos. 2: Carolyn Crain
County Commissioner, Pos. 1: Tom Mielke
County Commissioner, Pos. 2: Marc Boldt
Clark County Superior Judge, Dept. 2: John P. Wulle
Clark County Superior Judge, Dept. 2: Diane M. Woolard
*The race for State Representative, Pos. 1 in the 18th Legislative District is one of the most important to me. Brandon Vick is a good man, and a conservative who will represent the 18th LD and Clark County well - so join me in supporting him however you can!
View Post · July 23 at 10:05am ·
But that's not the point of this post. I highlighted the point of this post: Riley's endorsement of Marc Boldt.
Odd, isn't it? Riley endorses the election of every single GOP-endorsed candidate there is... except for Boldt.
Now, one might be cynical (as the resident cynic, I attest to that) and ask the following: Exactly why did Boldt make the cut?
Does that mean that Justin and his current political project, Brandon Vick, are in favor of that massive waste of billions of dollars, the CRC, like Marc Boldt?
Could be; that issue is conspicuous by its absence on Vick's "issues page."
That's unacceptable, of course. And I'll be emailing the campaign momentarily to nail that down. I know Brandon reads these pages, so it's best for all concerned if Brandon has a position on this issue and that it's a position that reflects the will of the people of this district.
In fact, here's the email I sent while putting this together.
Do you support he CRC? If so, why?
Do you support replacing the bridge? If so, why?
Do you support light rail? If so, why?
Do you support tolling? If so, why?Not sure the email went through... (Tried posting it at his campaign website... there was no indication it made it) might be a software glitch. So I just asked the question of Vick on his Facebook page.
I look forward to your response and will be blogging it on Clark County Politics.
That, however, doesn't address the issue: why this support of Boldt, the only elected official in the last 24 years I've lived here to be kicked out of the GOP?
It's not because Justin marches to the beat of his own drum.
It's because Boldt is going to decide who gets the upcoming appointment.
It's going to be Boldt who makes the decision by virtue of the fact that the 18th is "Charley's country," and Stuart and the two democrat commissioners in Cowlitz are likely to do what Marc wants.
Rest assured: there will be ongoing efforts by Vick and his acolytes to make nice with Boldt in a cynical ploy to get him to appoint Vick. And I've already written about that.
Pucker factor at play here. This could be very bad.
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