Though you won't read much about it in the news, and with nary a peep from the campaigns themselves, our Governor's race is relatively hot and heavy on TV and radio given how far we are from November.
Evergreen Progress has an updated round of TV ads bashing Dino Rossi (he hates you, didn't you know?). It's Time for a Change is returning the favor - see the top two videos here - with familiar hits on Christine Gregoire.
Gregoire's campaign has its now familiar range of TV ads, supplemented with a radio ad read by Barack Obama (see Aug. 12 entry here). Meanwhile, Rossi's campaign has a new one in the rotation:
Note that in the midst of playing a little defense, Rossi's campaign appears to have taken a James Carville-like approach to the campaign: find a winning issue, latch on to it, and pound away without ceasing. The issue for this race: voter discontent with the economy, gas prices, and out-of-touch state government.
It will probably make an appearance in some form in just about every Rossi ad from here on out, especially as a means to elevate the message above the cacophony from copious other ads in the race.
Posted by Eric Earling at August 13, 2008 09:58 PM | Email ThisMy late teenage girls look at me cross-wise when I mention the empty suit, aka DalaiBama. Same goes for the middle schooler. They get really upset when I give my DalaiBama famous speech about the seas beginning to subside and the earth began to heal. This is with the right hand raised in a straight arm salute to the One.
But, back to topic, don't you think the Queen is quite desperate to be having Obama in her commercials at this early stage? She is fearful since she should have a 10 point lead this early in cycle. She needs that because when the grownups focus in November, they go for the adult, and in this case, Rossi.
Posted by: swatter on August 14, 2008 07:47 AM"Radio ads jump Gregoire over Areva recruitment"
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/olympiadispatch/story/273123.html
But, But, But I thought the Chitown @$$clown was all about hope, change and a new kind of politics?
I guess not.
Posted by: Rick D. on August 14, 2008 11:32 AMCome on Dino, shout it loudly: "We're just as good as Cleveland!"
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on August 14, 2008 12:50 PMThis entire process stinks. Conflicts of interest and the potential for corruption are massive. A huge amount of money and in-kind support is flowing into the Governor's and Democratic Party's coffers to slime Republican candidates, especially Rossi. The unions are Gregoire's proxies.
There is no accountability. The parties involved lie and cheat t will. Taxpayers will pay dearly for years to come unless Rossi is elected and wields the line item veto pen to keep the legislature, bureaucracies and Democrat officials honest.
Apparently, the media will continue to run interference for Gregoire and the insidious special interests that support Democrats. Government employees unions, trial lawyers and radical environmentalists has the Democrats in government bought and paid for.
Check out the Western Climate Initiative. A few western states and Canadian provinces have set up their own little Kyoto Accord. Carbon emission credits will bought and sold as a tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% below 1990 levels by 2050.
Gregoire and her minders are using the non-science of the IPCC (UN) in a futile attempt to control the climate. The only certainty is that the Washington economy will be devastated.
Rossi must be elected or you can kiss your money goodbye while you observe the climate cool.
Posted by: Paddy on August 16, 2008 06:45 PM