Will David Madore do what has to be done to win?

(FULL DISCLOSURE: NO candidate or campaign or anyone involved or in any way concerned with any candidate or campaign was aware of or approved or had input into this post.

Further, Marc Boldt is my brother in law, and I worked for him as his legislative assistant for 6 years while he was in the state house.)  

I'm out of this race.  I endorse neither candidate and will not be voting for either.

As a consultant, I look at this situation tactically and strategically.  I also take an historical view.

Politically, few know Marc Boldt as well as I do.  Fewer still have noticed his ever-leftward drift since he became a county commissioner.

Now as much a democrat as Steve Stuart, the question remains: will David Madore strap it on and do what has to be done?

If history is a guide, that's not likely.  Madore seems to believe this is some sort of polite debating society where some verbal version of the Marquis of Queensbury rules prevail.

The primary should have disabused Madore of that notion.

The democratian will do all they can to pick up Marc's slack, pounding Madore for sins both real, and likely imagined.  They will give Boldt a complete and utter pass while they will hammer Madore like a drum.

Madore makes a mistake on a mailer.... bad, bad.  They have to do all they can to inform as many people as possible, doing Boldt's campaign's job for them, for free.  Boldt lies through his teeth on multiple mailers?

Not a peep out of the rag.

It's bad enough that Boldt, the local version of Barack Obama, is reduced to lying and exaggerating instead of addressing the issues.  Instead, he sent mailers that lied, repeatedly, over the same issues:

1.  That he, Boldt, "fought for your chance to vote on light rail."

That is a complete and utter lie.  It's not even an exaggeration... it's a total fabrication.

NO ONE OUT HERE WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE ON THE LOOT RAIL SCAM THAT BOLDT SUPPORTS... NOT EVEN BOLDT.

I simply cannot comprehend as to why Boldt insists on repeating this lie.

2.  "His recorded vote is for no tolls."

Yet, he supports the unneeded, unwanted and unaffordable replacement of the bridge with the addition of light rail and life long tolls ANYWAY.

In fact, the phrase I quote off his mailer is parsed: instead of saying "I oppose tolls" he tells us that "his recorded vote is no on tolls."

So, why does he have to lie?

3.  "Held property taxes below 1%"

MOST years, he did no such thing; further, he can't raise them OVER 1%, BY LAW.

Why is he lying about this?

Why did he lie to me about holding a county wide vote for the CRC?

Why did he vote, in the face of my personal warnings to the contrary, to confiscate our weapons in the face of a commissioner-declared emergency?

Why did he vote to jack up our sales tax for drug rehab without putting it to a vote?

Why did he violate state ethics laws by voting to fund his wife's employer?

The CRC is well known to be a scam, HE knows it's a scam... why isn't he doing everything he can to put a stop to ripping us off?

Why does Marc Boldt want to impose life-long tolls that will cost some commuters tens of thousands of dollars over their life times because of him?

Why did Marc vote for a gerrymandered CTran taxing district that will exclude tens of thousands of us from having any say in the CTran loot rail tax rip off... that HE says HE fought for so WE could have a "voice?"

And the local rag does nothing to hold Boldt accountable.

I used to work for Marc.  I spent 6 years as his front office.  He used to be a principled conservative Republican who would fight for what he believed in.

Now, he has no integrity or principles, he's sold us out and he's lying to us... just like any other slick, left wing lying politician.

Why?

These are but a few of the issues available for an aggressive candidate to exploit.  There ARE others that show a STUNNING level of corruption. 

The question:  What is David Madore going to do about it?

Because if he doesn't crack that, "Aw shucks, ma'am, twern't nuthin'" blueberry farmer from Brush Prairie facade with this harsh reality, then he will lose.

If he does not hit hard, and often, and define Marc Boldt for who he REALLY is... then David Madore will lose.

If he does not, literally, tie the CRC around Marc Boldt's neck, then he will lose.

The question?

Does he have the stones?

We'll know in about 88 days.  But it has proven to be out of character for David Madore to do what must be done, no matter how unpleasant, no matter how viciously he's attacked by local media who will rabidly support Boldt since, like every other leftist, they view their agenda as far superior to the will of the people... just like Boldt.

And you can tell they're the same because neither one has ever demanded, fought for or even tried to set up a county wide vote on any of this crap... because they already know the outcome.

I admit it: I'm ashamed of what my brother-in-law has become.  I'm ashamed of what he represents.

How I wish we had the Marc Boldt of 1995, instead of this version.  And I am so sorry we do not.