Does anybody remember Cynthia Sullivan, the former chairwoman of the King County Council, who was unseated by Bob Ferguson in 2003? Rejected by the voters, Sullivan was rewarded for her years of service to the Sims machine with a sinecure in Sims' office as "Director of the Metropolitan Initiative", whatever the hell that means.
Cynthia Sullivan and her husband Jim Hebert are also illegal voters. They sold their north Seattle residence in July 2004 to Scott White, who happens to be chief-of-staff of the County Council. Nevertheless, they're still registered to vote at Scott White's house more than a year after they moved out. Okay, I'm going out on a limb reporting that Sullivan and her husband actually moved out. However, election records show that Scott White changed his address to his new house on or before August 20, 2004, the day before he got married (look up here). Sullivan and her husband are said to reside in Bellevue and are also building a dream home in the mountains, but definitely don't live in Seattle -- unless they're also in some sort of weird group marriage with Scott White and his new bride. Nevertheless, Sullivan is not only using her old address as a voting residence, she's also been using it to file incorrect campaign contribution disclosures.
The lesson is that when you're a relative or employee of Ron Sims, apparently, you can vote wherever you feel like. Maybe Cynthia Sullivan is still voting in north Seattle because she still holds a grudge against Bob Ferguson and wanted to vote for Carolyn Edmonds. At least Ferguson had the last laugh.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 01, 2005 02:41 PM | Email ThisIt has become very clear to me, with hundreds of illegal voters still on the roles, that EVERY election we have is flawed.
The major media's refusal to do any kind of research into the cesspool called the registered voter database is stunning.
We will never have a legitimate election in this county until we start over with a clean slate and re-register EVERY voter.
Posted by: Steven Pyeatt on October 1, 2005 03:11 PM2004 election is my first time I involves in U.S. politics and I ran for State Rept. for the first time in my life. I remember, there was double voters, dead person voted in my back yard, as well as felons voted in 34th legislative District. Those votes was illegal and no one knows who won the election.
I agree with you that we need to re-register all voters, but it isn’t good enough to fix the Election in King County. In my opinion we must stop people from vote by mail, except the military and people that unable to vote in Election Day. The most important we must elect the director of the King County Election Division. And prosecute the election violators.
Savun Neang
Percentage of Mercer Islanders Registered to Vote – 140%
http://islandrepublican.blogspot.com/2005/09/percentage-of-mercer-islanders.html
Posted by: Island Republican on October 1, 2005 04:26 PM$1,028,634.75 to be exact as of September 21.
So why should Sullivan or Sims worry about a little illegal voting? Sims has all of "our" money he needs to defend any of his corrupt employees, including Sullivan, who he hired after her defeat at 70% of her former county council salary. Her "do nothing" job was no doubt in exchange for all her loyal contributions to the Sims machine before one county council district got their collective heads out of their asses and booted her.
yawn.....
get a life Shark. seriously....
Posted by: Unkl Witz on October 1, 2005 05:49 PMShouldn't you be holed up somewhere in Louisiana or Mississippi pretending to be a claims adjuster or something like that?
Posted by: Danny on October 1, 2005 05:58 PMShark is out to expose the truth about corrupt elections. Some these accusations are seemingly petty, but when the big puzzle is put together - it is apparent that Ron Sims and his corrupt cronies of KCE like Unkl Witz and his iik show their disdain for the light of truth for different yet similar reasons.
(PS - We're not talking about Bush here - Witzl. No dog in that hunt)
Posted by: KS on October 1, 2005 06:48 PM...isn't' he the guy who owns the "unbiased" political research firm in Bellevue?
Posted by: Just Wondering on October 1, 2005 09:20 PMPete Remington
Posted by: Pete Remington on October 1, 2005 10:28 PM(Unless, of course, you're Unkl Witz, for whom there is no excuse.)
Posted by: psuedotsuga on October 1, 2005 10:31 PMcrime is crime; granted some is more urgent than other, but where does it end? ...and tolerating a 'only a FEW roaches' leads to what...?!
this election mess is like a fly dumper near your house; first, a tire or a few appliances; next, it spreads to a junk yard; any outrage or nipping it in the bud or do we wait for the junkyard and the full-blown ghetto?
Posted by: Jimmie-howya-doin on October 2, 2005 01:25 PMNo one knows who won your election?
How about this, from the Secretary of state's Web site:
Eileen L. Cody Democratic 42,369 75.12%
Savun Neang Republican 11,712 20.76%
Why don't you try again? Maybe we can get Eileen's percentage over 80 percent this time.
Thank you for your response to my post in SoundPolitcs.com. I would like to be clear that was the Governor race, NO ONE KNOW WHO WON.
You are right! I will run again, because I am the second best of all the Republican candidates in Seattle city limit that received more than
20 % of the votes.
An immigrant from Asia, a Republican and run for office than drive the Democrats to get 80%, I on't think so. You should wait and see the out
come of this election in 34th District for David Irons.
David Irons has no chance of carrying the 34th District and neither do you.
Posted by: Ivan on October 2, 2005 07:57 PMYou're a part of the Culture of Corruption, and you're in it over your head. You will chock on it and gag your last insult at those who are trying to end the corruption for all voters of all parties. Shame on you....Vote you out!
Posted by: Son of Liberty on October 3, 2005 08:09 AMWhy not blame Cynthia Sullivan for her own actions and leave responsibility where it should be? Because that wouldn't have any partisan propaganda advantage.
The cynicism of your posts amazes me. You must believe that no one reads them with a critical eye.
Posted by: Martin Brody on October 3, 2005 09:13 AMYou said “David Irons has no chance of carrying the 34th District and neither do you.”
You are so confident that all residents living in 34th are or voted Democrats, but just a reminder, Dino Rossi did very well in this district, and I did well, too.
I promise and all I ask fair politics, even though in April this year, someone was asking people around about me at the White Center spring clean up.
A straight answer, if someone doesn’t like my last year campaign, that’s means, what I did was right for citizens of 34th District.
Posted by: Savun Neang on October 3, 2005 05:03 PMNo one I know has a problem with you personally or with your campaign. We disagree with your politics, that is all.
Posted by: Ivan on October 3, 2005 08:45 PMThank you very much for the response, and please help me out what is it about my politics that you or your group does not like? Can you be more specific?
Best Regards,
Savun Neang
The voters will tell you in November. See you around White Center.
Posted by: Ivan on October 4, 2005 07:34 AMThanks anyway, your answer is not specific about my politics that you/your group disagree with, and it will be no answer for me by the voters in November election, because I don’t run for any position. See you around.
Not if I see you first.
Whatta putz!
Savun asked a sincere and legitimate question and you respond with asshat responses that are even beneath your usual "style".
For all you know, Savun might have been someone amenable to moderate POV's that would have (gak!) coincided with yours - but you'll never know because you acted the typical arrogant, reflexive democrap.
Good luck to you Savun, and just remember; the best way to tell if a democrap is lying is if his mouth is moving....
Posted by: alphabet soup on October 4, 2005 10:15 AM