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From a Seattle Times article yesterday headlined "Area poll workers report good turnout":
In this historically Republican neighborhood [in Bellevue], the war in Iraq seemed to be pushing some people to vote for Democrats. "The administration is clueless," said Tony Grills. "And you can't 'Control-Z' and go backwards."
The national results of the election are very satisfactory, but so are the local results. In fact, I have yet to see anything I voted on go the other way. Susan Owens crushed right wing nutjob Stephen Johnson for the state Supreme Court; the city has had its hands tied on subsidizing a new arena for the professional basketball team (when we still owe tens of millions of dollars on renovating the existing arena); the state estate tax was not repealed; there's more money for buses in the county; there's more money to fix potholes in the city; and the lap in lap dances was not defined as being four feet from any actual lap. Could the city's bizarre war against strip clubs finally be over? Well, probably not, but while we can't Control-Z Iraq, maybe we can head in a new direction on a number of different fronts.
In this historically Republican neighborhood [in Bellevue], the war in Iraq seemed to be pushing some people to vote for Democrats. "The administration is clueless," said Tony Grills. "And you can't 'Control-Z' and go backwards."
The national results of the election are very satisfactory, but so are the local results. In fact, I have yet to see anything I voted on go the other way. Susan Owens crushed right wing nutjob Stephen Johnson for the state Supreme Court; the city has had its hands tied on subsidizing a new arena for the professional basketball team (when we still owe tens of millions of dollars on renovating the existing arena); the state estate tax was not repealed; there's more money for buses in the county; there's more money to fix potholes in the city; and the lap in lap dances was not defined as being four feet from any actual lap. Could the city's bizarre war against strip clubs finally be over? Well, probably not, but while we can't Control-Z Iraq, maybe we can head in a new direction on a number of different fronts.
