June 10, 2004
Christine Gregoire Meltdown

It's no longer just Christine Gregoire's gubernatorial campaign that is melting down. The poor woman herself is falling apart. Washington's Democrat Attorney General, facing an unending fusillade of allegations of mismanagement, incompetence and obstruction of justice, is now suffering from hallucinations:

In her bid for governor, Attorney General Christine Gregoire has been warning fellow Democrats that the Bush White House is promising to pump $9 million into the campaign of Republican Dino Rossi, more than double what any candidate has raised in the past... Rossi calls the figure a fabrication. Gregoire acknowledges she has no proof
Gregoire could be either off her prescribed medications, or on some unprescribed medications. Either way, she's out of control and unfit to be governor.

UPDATE: Matt Rosenberg has more and discovers that the track record of Gregoire spokesman Morton Brilliant is less than brilliant.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 10, 2004 09:39 AM
Comments

Why $9 million? I mean, if you're just going to pull numbers out of your backend, why nine? Heck, I would've said $25 million just to get 'em really fired up.

The whole story's a bunch of speculative bunk. Must be a slooooow news day at the Times.

Posted by: jimg on June 10, 2004 12:32 PM

God how many times do you ping Seattle blogs with your mastubatory fascist rantings.

Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com on June 10, 2004 09:29 PM

As often as it takes to entice you to come over here and honor me with your intelligent postings, Jake.

Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on June 10, 2004 09:43 PM

Jake: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/

Posted by: cornflux on June 11, 2004 12:41 AM

Anyone else still marvel that they are still throwing the word "fascist" around like Paris Hilton at a biker bar? I mean, it's been... what... forty years or something and all they've got is "fascist?" Is this evidence of a.) a complete lack of creativity b.) being hopelessly stuck in the past or c.) evidence of a pathetically stunted vocabulary.

Sheesh. I guess maybe I expect too much from people for whom smashing Starbucks windows and waving giant papier-mache puppets is considered sophisticated political discourse.

Posted by: Matt J Kurlander on June 11, 2004 06:04 AM
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