Your ballots are coming. Here’s who the 43rd District Dems say you should vote for:
Below are the 2012 endorsements of the 43rd District Democrats organization. The list includes candidates and ballot measures endorsed through our general election endorsements meeting on Tuesday, September 18th.
Federal:
• President: Barack Obama
• US Senate: Maria Cantwell
• 7th CD: Jim McDermott
• 9th CD: Adam Smith
State-wide
• Governor: Jay Inslee
• Lieutenant Governor: Brad Owen
• Attorney General: Bob Ferguson
• State Auditor: Troy Kelley
• Secretary of State: Kathleen Drew
• Commissioner of Public Lands: Peter Goldmark
• Insurance Commissioner: Mike Kreidler
• Treasurer: Jim McIntire
• WA Supreme Court #9: Sheryl Gordon McCloud
• Ref. 74 (Marriage Equality): YES
• I-502 (Marijuana): YES
• I-1185 (Eyman): NO
• I-1240 (Charter Schools): NO
• SJR 8221 (constitutional amendment, debt limit): NO
• Advisory Votes Nos. 1 and 2: MaintainLocal
• 43rd State Rep.: Frank Chopp
• 43rd State Rep.: Jamie Pedersen
• King County Sheriff: John Urquhart
• King County Superior Court #42: Chris Washington
• City of Seattle AFIS Levy Renewal: YES
• City of Seattle Seawall Levy: YES
And here’s who — and what — you told KCTS and University of Washington researchers you’re going to vote for:
Some KCTS 9 Washington Poll Highlights
U.S. President
- Barack Obama (D) 51.8%
- Mitt Romney (R) 41.3%
- Gary Johnson (L) 1.3%
- Jill Stein (G) 0.3%
- Other 1.4%
- Undecided 3.9%
Washington Governor
- Jay Inslee (D) 47.9%
- Rob McKenna (R) 44.7%
- Undecided 7.4%
U.S. Senate – Washington
- Maria Cantwell (D) 58.3%
- Michael Baumgartner (R) 34.8%
- Undecided 6.9%
Referendum 74 – Marriage Equality
- Yes 56.3%
- No 35.6%
- Undecided 6.1%
Initiative 502 – Legalizing and Regulating Marijuana
- Yes 50.9%
- No 40.8%
- Undecided 8.3%
Initiative 1185 – 2/3 Majority to Raise Taxes
- Yes 53.6%
- No 31.2%
- Undecided 15.2%
Initiative 1240 – Charter Schools
- Yes 47.5%
- No 39.2%
- Undecided 13.3%
I’ll tell you what I find most useful when I start filling out my ballot… it’s what the political parties want me to do.
Why not at least a round-up of local endorsements?
The 43rd Dems are a (highly interested, sometimes highly connected) group of citizens. You probably know a few. Also, it’s easy to share links in comments. Would be great to see any of the endorsements you find particularly valuable.
I like those odds.
Except for 1185….
I don’t find endorsements of Obama helpful.
dpt2:
because Obama is obviously the better choice or because you strongly disagree?
>>>The 43rd Dems are a
>>>(highly interested, sometimes highly connected) group
>>>of citizens.
LMAO
… who make party line endorsements regardless of qualification.
At the link provided, there are 14 partisan office candidates, all 14 they endorse are Democrats. I don’t begrudge them that; the job of political parties and sororities is to support their members. To suggest it’s some kind of erudite, watchdogging fact-checker civic club, however, is hilarious.
Zamba’s Endorsements:
President – Obama is guaranteed to win Washington’s electoral votes. Every less popular vote he gets in that victory, however, is a shout that you don’t support the U.S policy of mass genocide against the people of Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. It’s a shout against Obama’s Patriot Act. It’s a shout against Obama’s NDAA. It’s a shout against Obama’s Guantanamo Bay concentration camp. — VOTE JILL STEIN (Green)
Secretary of State – If you’ve never voted for a Republican in your life, this is the one time you should. Kathleen Drew is a very nice lady who is functionally unqualified to run a technical / non policy making office. Republican Kim Wyman has been endorsed by the WEA if that tells you something (when is the last time the teacher’s union endorsed a Republican?). If that doesn’t, consider that every Democratic Party county auditor in the State of Washington has endorsed Republican Kim Wyman over Democrat Kathleen Drew. — VOTE KATHLEEN DREW (Republican)
freudian slip (Wyman and Drew are both MILFs) … that should read:
VOTE KIM WYMAN (Republican)
Also, vote for Richard Sanders to return to the Supreme Court. Not the 43rds polite, meek, no-judicial experience, bows to authority, Sheryl Gordon Mc-Cloud. Sanders, BTW, is this guy from 2008 …
— Richard Sanders, a justice on the Washington State Supreme Court, has never been one to shy from controversy or blunt language. And last week, as he sat at a Federalist Society dinner and listened to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Sanders reached his tipping point.
After listening to Mukasey defend the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies — its detainment practices at Guantánamo Bay, its interpretation of the Geneva Conventions’ reach — Sanders stood and shouted “Tyrant! You are a tyrant!” —
Mukasey promptly fainted after that.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2008435605_websanders
Before you bound-off to the polls, rictus grin on your face, happily clutching the 43rd Dems scorecard in your hand, maybe ask why *every* Democratic Party county chief elections officer in this state has endorsed the Republican. How is it possible the Democratic candidate for chief elections officer could lose the endorsement of *every* county elections officer FROM HER OWN PARTY in the entire state? (Plus the WEA, the public employee federation and the last 3 Secretaries of State.) Vote with your brain, not with the alphabet (D/R).
Kathleen Drew (R) for Secretary of State Endorsements:
– Jerry Petit, Kittitas county Auditor (Democrat)
– Walter Washington, Kitsap county Auditor (Democrat)
– Vicky Dalton, Spokane county Auditor (Democrat)
– Jeanne Youngquist, Skagit county Auditor (Democrat)
– Pat Gardner, Pacific county Auditor (Democrat)
– Tim Grey, Stevens county Auditor (Democrat)
– Shelly Johnston, Lincoln county Auditor (Democrat)
– Vern Spatz, Grays Harbor county Auditor (Democrat)
– Kristina Swanson, Cowlitz county Auditor (Democrat)
– Diane Tischer, Wahkiakum county Auditor (Democrat)
– Thad Duvall, Douglas county Auditor (Democrat)
– Corky Mattingly, Yakima county Auditor (Democrat)
– Washington Education Association
– Retired Public Employees of Washington
– Federation of State & County Municipal Workers
Right? I find that so strange, I wonder if it’s a mistake. Why would all these obvious liberals vote for the 2/3 super majority rule? That rule hamstrung California; just about impossible to get 2/3 of the population to agree on anything.
Excuse me Kathleen Drew is very qualified and is not a Republican. How can you say that she is? It is not true.