Sorry for the late update, but things have happened to make this story a bit of a slug, both personally and news wise.
The Repub court case that was supposed to take place on last Friday the 14th was postponed. You may remember that I wrote about the Dems joining the Secretary of States side in the case with the Repubs approval. That is turning out to have been a HUGE MISTAKE on the part of the (R)s.
The Dems immediately filed a number of motions; one to slow down the ‘discovery’ portion of the case, one to ask that the presiding judge be removed and one questioning Chelan County’s jurisdiction.
These have served to push the hearing back to this Thursday the 20th (aka Bush’s Inaugural) where these issues will be decided.
REMEMBER, the Repubs only have 10 days after the inauguration (this Saturday) to challenge the validity of the election and legally get it thrown out. After that, it would take the making of new law for anything like that to happen.
Fat chance of the Washington State Supreme Court doing anything like that.
Once again, it appears that the Repubs in Washington stepped on their own peckers in a feeble attempt to get things set right. Now, they had better start praying for heavenly intervention on this baby or they can kiss their hopes of getting Gregoire ousted goodbye.
If they CAN actually prove malfeasance, fraud or incompetence, but a judge refuses to order a new Gubernatorial contest or the decision date comes down after the 22nd, they don’t have many friends in the media around these parts to help them win in the court of public opinion to request a new election. And with the whining and the shodding playing of the media they have been doing for the last few weeks, I can guarantee you that, while they may have swung some (D)s to their side, they pissed away some damn good (R) support.
So, here you go. This is Gregoire’s Inaugural speech. I know I promised to fisk it since it IS just a long list of sound bites, but she included items about her mom and a number of family friends (some of whom are dead) who are probably decent people . I just didn’t have the heart to sling some of my usual abuses at total strangers and non-public figures on my birthday weekend. Sorry.
If anything interesting pops up between now and Thurday, I’ll let you know.
Otherwise, just think of this election as one that the Dems stole in the face of Republican ineptitude.
Oh go ahead and fisk away. Her dead relatives probably voted for her anyway!