Inslee from the Downing St Hearings - getting beat by big money dirty ads

[upi402]

I admired Jay Inslee when I saw him in those basement hearing with Conyers. He always fought for us.

Now he's neck & neck with big money Republican McKenna in the governor's race in WA.

I read that the local paper was giving the Republican free column inches so I googled 'Inslee'.
...And McKenna was the search result !?!

I was pissed.
So I donated to Inslee.

I feel better already!

[The Blue Flower]

1. Inslee is a treasure

He will make a great governor. I hope many people donate.

[mick063]

2. Inslee got my vote

The door to door Repub wanted to make it very clear to me that McKenna was not Tea Party.

Yea. Right.

Why are they running from the "promised land" of 2010?

[jsmirman]

3. Just donated $50 - we need a Gov who gives a damn about the environment

in Washington.

[KT2000]

4. McKenna is Tea party

wish Inslee would have put those ads on earlier. McKenna is another one who is posing as a centrist but is crazy angry RW.

[upi402]

5. McKenna is WA Attorney General who sued to stop Obamacare in WA

Says it all.
He did this against the will of the Governor and the people.
Therefore, Tea Partier.

[KT2000]

9. have you seen the ad

where he is speaking to the tea party? He says something like "I am with you."

[HeiressofBickworth]

7. The local paper is The Seattle Times

They have given McKenna $75,000 worth of advertising for his campaign. This crosses the line and any journalistic integrity they previously enjoyed is GONE. I told them so when they called asking me to subscribe (I'm in the Seattle area). I don't even look at their on-line version anymore because of this.

The funny thing is that The Times (owned by the Blethen Family) has historically been more liberal than the other paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. "From 1983 to 2009, the Times and Seattle's other major paper, the Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, were run under a "Joint Operating Agreement" (JOA) whereby advertising, production, marketing, and circulation were controlled by the Times for both papers. The two papers maintained their own identities with separate news and editorial departments." (Wikipedia) The PI stopped it's print version in 2009 and The Times has been the only print-version in town. It's shocking that a news organization has become a member of a political campaign.

[upi402]

8. Wow, Seattle has NO newspaper?

It really IS dead. I thought I had read somewhere that the P-I was the less right-leaning one. I used to read various papers before it got just too disheartening.

Thanks for the insight.

[HeiressofBickworth]

10. Sorry I didn't make myself clear

The PI stopped print publication but continues to be on-line.

The Seattle Times is not only on line but continues to be a print publication.

So, Seattle continues to have two main newspapers.

Seattle also has other newspapers: The Stranger, The Seattle Weekly and to the east, the Bellevue Journal-American. To the north is the Everett Herald.

Despite the generous campaign donation by the Seattle Times, the editorial section of The Times has endorsed Obama.

I still maintain that by contributing to and actually participating in a campaign, they have lost their journalistic integrity.

[Sparky 1]

11. I agree 100%. I've followed Jay's voting history very carefully.

He's a true progressive and a very good man.

McKenna is a rotten little Tea Freak weasel. His negative ads have made my stomach churn.

I voted for Jay and donated. Isn't it too late to donate more?