Attorney General / Democrat gubernatorial hopeful Christine Gregoire was president of a college sorority that excluded blacks and Jews, we learn in today's Seattle Times. Gregoire's response: she disagreed with the exclusionary policy, but enforced it anyway, hoping to "change the system from within". But in fact, she simply went along with the status quo and did more to maintain the system than to change it.

I'm not necessarily going to judge a mature politician by decisions she made decades ago as a 20-year-old college student. But I will judge her by the way she explains those decisions today:

Gregoire says she has no regrets. If she had quit or been kicked out of Kappa Delta, "they win." If she and her sisters had defied the national sorority, the UW chapter would have been closed, and the sorority would have continued discriminating elsewhere.

"At the end of the day," she said, "I feel passionately that I did the right thing."

Gregoire's track record as Attorney General only confirms this:

* She still refuses to enforce I-776 and require Sound Transit to cease collecting vehicle licensing fees.

* She protects state agencies from having to release public documents under the Public Disclosure Act.

* She effectively allowed the Washington Education Association to continue to violate campaign finance laws.

* She sat on her hands during the illegal Marysville teacher's strike.

All of the above actions reflect the same mindset that would still defend, 35 years after the fact, a policy of keeping blacks and Jews out of a sorority. If that's what you want in your governor, then vote for Christine Gregoire.