King County GOP will they ever learn

Good Afternoon,


Its been awhile but I have said a lot about the king county GOP leadership
in the past.Guess what? There back!!.Just when I thought they couldn't sink any
lower.Well they have.As some of you may know Brian Thomas was nominated
at the king county GOP convention for the 2nd district county council position.
In typical king county GOP leadership fashion they have chosen to ignore Brian.



executive board member terry Thomas told Brian that the party would pay
his filing fee.So Brian then spoke with the chairman Michael young about
get the fee paid.Now Michael says I never said we would pay your filing fee.
Of course terry Thomas denied ever saying they would pay it.Not only would
they not pay it if you look at the list of candidates on king county gop's website
they have refused to even put brian's name down as someone running for
the 2nd district council position. In fact there is nothing at all.



These people are really something Michael young talks about having a
big tent but in reality its a very small one.they are also giving Steve Hammond
the brush off. Now that favorite son Reagan Dunn decided to stay in the
race.Steve Hammond is an honorable man he deserves this party leadership respect.
but sadly I don't think he will ever get it anymore than Brian Thomas will.
Why?Because there both conservatives.With this kind of reckless attitude
they will continue to drive people away and lose elections.I wonder will
they ever learn.


Next week( yes there will a column every week from now on)

They story of Susan Hutchison the one candidate who
can unite the state gop.The only one who can defeat cantwell.

The Chris Vance Chronicles

Good Afternoon


After almost a 3 week hiatus I have returned I have a gotten a lot of
questions about why I seemed to have it in for Chris Vance. Here's the
answer in December of 2004 my wife and I were at a republican women's
of Seattle Christmas party at the home of Pedro celis.Dino Rossi happened to
come to the party. I had the pleasure of speaking with dino.During the course
of the conversation mark hulst's name came up.Dino had a lot of nice things to
say about mark.



My first thought was lets see if he knows what marks doing right now.
So I asked Dino if he heard what mark was doing? He said no I don't.
I was surprised, my response oh you don't know.I don't know if I
should say, Dino says oh come on you can tell me.I said I don't know.
All at once Dino says oh your talking about the state chair race.
well mark's not going to run.



I was shocked it was a mere 3 days earlier that I had spoken with
mark he never said anything about it.So when I got home that
night I emailed mark telling him that I was sorry to here that he had
decided not to run for state chair.The next day mark
returned my email saying whatever gave you the idea that
I'm not running?I thought oh boy what's going on here.



Mark explained to me that Chris Vance had told the rossi campaign
that he wasn't running anymore.It was at that point I decided
to go after Vance with everything I had.Because no one makes
me look like idiot and gets away with it.What made it even worse
is he used Dino Rossi to do it.This and the fact that he was so desperate
to keep his power that he told some pretty big whoppers about mark
hulst during the state chair race.




I simply don't believe someone this contemptible should be
leading a political party.Anyway on to some new stuff last
Saturday afternoon the state republican party had there
executive board meeting.Vance let everyone know that
unless he got a raise he would resign at the end of the year.
My response: then go ahead and resign.



It takes some nerve to ask for a raise when the organization Vance is leading
is in debt to the tune of 1.8 million dollars. There fund raising
is in the toilet.More than half of the state central committee no
longer support him.He continues to alienate the conservative
wing of the party.Between Vance and the king county republican
party they have done more to damage this party than I have
been accused of doing.


Chris Vance is also interested in running for state senate. He wants
to replace the retiring senator johnson.In his infinite way he actually
thinks he can run for state senate and be state chair at the
same time.Now picture this his primary job is to raise money to help
candidates. How can Vance possibly do this and raise money for his
own campaign.The fact of the matter is he can't.So yes Mr Vance
go ahead and quit.