11th District Republican favorite Kristin Thompson is running for state senate against the execrable Bob Hasegawa. We learn from published information that the Bobster's "specialties" include union negitiations, labor relations, organizing, and "organizational and social change processes". Bob's BA degree is in "Labor Relations, Organizational and Social Change". His AA degree is in "Labor Studies". …
Month: June 2012
Socialized Health Care And Euthanasia
With today's Supreme Court ruling in favor of Obamacare, this seems as good a time as any to offer a look at the seamy side of government-run health care. A recent claim published in Britain states that Britain's National Health Service is prematurely killing off about 130,000 elderly patients every year. For context, that would be the …
Does Obama Know What Outsourcing Is?
With Obama apparently tieing his re-election hopes to negative ads about Bain Capital's "outsourcing" of jobs, here's a timely economics lesson for the president and his supporters from Kevin D. Williamson of NRO.
We Don’t Like Obama Because…
There's a short piece by Jay Nordlinger in National Review about conservatives, and whether its because Obama is part black that we don't like him: "Every day, we hear that conservatives oppose President Obama, and are eager for his defeat, because he’s black. Because, of course, we conservatives just love Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, HarryReid, John …
Sarah Sanoy-Wright For State Representative
The excellent Sarah Sanoy-Wright is running for state representative from the 11th district. Sarah's priority is "Save our economy. We need fiscal responsibility in Olympia, we need a balanced budget, and we want our businesses to stay in Washington". Sarah's website is here.
Kristin Thompson For State Senate
Kristin Thompson is endorsed by the 11th District Republicans in her run for state senate. More information about Kristin's campaign can be found here.
Yes, But Is He Qualified?
Recently, there seems to be some hand-wringing in the mainstream media about whether Mitt Romney's time as head of Bain Capital qualifies him to be a community organizer. I would argue that Bain Capital was most assuredly a community; probably one that required a good bit of organizing. The state of Massachusets is indubitably a community; …
Strachan For Sheriff
In the non-partisan race for King County Sheriff, the 11th District Republicans endorse Steve Strachan.
John Lott And Regulatory Thuggery
Here is an excellent interview with JohnLott, in which he talks about the stimulus, the recovery and Obama's "Regulatory Thuggery".
McKenna And Inslee Debate
Rob McKenna (R) and Jay Inslee (D) had their first debate of the 2012 gubernatorial campaign Tuesday in Spokane. Unprepared, ill-informed and woolly thinking, Insley was no match for the incisive McKenna. The one criticism of McKenna seems to be that he is "lawyerly". Inslee is a lawyer. Current governor Christine Gregoire is a lawyer. Her …
11th District Republicans 