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The Hutchison Slate

In the major league sports world, it is considered unsportsmanlike to run up the score against an opponent to some outlandish degree. That's why in football, when the score is something like 50 - 3, the coach that is ahead puts in substitutes. Reagan Dunn's campaign apparently has no such compunction, in fact he is bringing out the first team to pile up the score (although, he'll need 90% of the primary vote to claim a "win"). Two county councilmembers, Kathy Lambert and Bob Ferguson, both of whom have free passes to their own re-elections (uncontested districts), are effectively helping Dunn. Lambert assisted with and her likeness appeared in a ubiquitous taxpayer-funded county brochure with Dunn. Ferguson and Dunn co-authored an article that appeared in the newspaper of record for Dunn supporters, the "Sound Publishing/Reporter" publications.

With the county in a financial crisis and in the midst of a morass, Lambert & Ferguson have nothing better to do than to help Reagan Dunn? This is the same Mr. Dunn whose two primary opponents cannot spend more than 5-K each. We don't know this for sure, but you can bet good money that Susan Hutchison, the frontrunner in the county executive election, is also siding up to Dunn. The Hutchison-Lambert-Ferguson-Dunn slate (which also includes Councilman Peter Von Reichbauer) is surely coming into form, and we, as the progressive wing in King County, had better get out the vote before this arch-conservative faction takes over the county for the benefit of their corporate paymasters.

[First posted on the "Commoner" blog and revised on 7/14/09.]

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