More on the McKenna tribal sell out.

We've already figured out that RINO Rob McKenna has sold us out to the Cowlitz.  He's getting his 30 pieces of silver as a result, and we here in Clark County run the risk of suffering for it.

One wonders: is the pittance he's getting from the tribes worth the damage he's going to cause as governor... were he even remotely able to win?

This is just one of the many reasons why I will never again vote for this slime bag. 

Ever.

After all, why vote for the fake democrat when the real thing is available?.

McKenna gains tribal support

Though Democrat is favored, campaign outreach has paid off

By Jordan Schrader, The News Tribune

Monday, September 3, 2012

Rob McKenna is siding with Indian tribes and against some fellow Republicans in the Legislature who see nontribal gambling as a potential jackpot for the state budget.

On several fronts, in fact, McKenna has become an unlikely ally of the tribal governments that have helped maintain Democratic Party control in Olympia. As attorney general, he has visited every reservation in the state -- an outreach effort that even a tribal leader who supports rival Jay Inslee calls "unprecedented."

Tribes have rewarded him with campaign contributions -- far less than Democrat Inslee has received, but vastly more than other Republicans who have run for governor in the recent past.

"Tribes historically have always leaned Democrat, but over the last 10 years or so we've become more politically astute and we're more attentive to what is the political position of the candidates," said the Inslee backer, W. Ron Allen, chairman of the Jamestown S'Klallum Tribe and president of the Washington Indian Gaming Association. "Tribes are being like a lot of special interests out there, and they're hedging their bets."

Indian tribes haven't abandoned the Democrats by any measure. Inslee, with more than $50,000, has outraised McKenna more than five-to-one among tribes. While the Puyallup Tribe, for example, has given equal amounts to both, more tribes have contributed only to Inslee.

"Predominantly," Allen said, "I think the tribes are still going to lean toward Jay and the Democratic Party."

McKenna said he thinks contributions "have actually been pretty balanced in this election and I think they'll continue to be balanced."

That's about the best a Republican can hope for: that tribes will hold back from making major infusions into Democratic Party coffers, as they did in 2008 when the Tulalip, Puyallup and Muckleshoot tribes were three of the biggest donors to political action committees for the state party -- which in turn helped fund Gov. Chris Gregoire's re-election run.

That still could happen, with six weeks before ballots go out for the Nov. 6 election. But so far, instead of the state party, the biggest beneficiaries of tribal money this time around are House and Senate Democrats.

Their PACs have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Puyallups, Muckleshoots and the Gaming Association's Campaign for Tribal Self-Reliance -- more than they took in four years ago. All three also are McKenna donors.

Tribal leaders appreciate that neither gubernatorial candidate is inclined to grant nontribal card rooms their big wish: the slot-style machines that Indian casinos already have.

Scum.