Nethercutt launches longshot U.S. Senate campaign

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Nethercutt launches longshot U.S. Senate campaign

By Jim Brunner
Seattle Times staff reporter


KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Eastern Washington's last U.S. Senate win was 1922

*** — Clarence C. Dill, the last politician from east of the Cascades to be elected senator from Washington.

Dill left office in 1934, and some observers say an Eastern Washington politician may never hold a U.S. Senate seat again, though Nethercutt, not surprisingly, disagrees.

More at the Seattle Times

More to the point, there has not been a Republican senator from Eastern Washington since Dill, a progressive Democrat and New Dealer, ousted the incumbant.

Dill was a New Deal Democrat who promoted public ownership of utilities in the Northwest.

[Wetzelbill]

1. Nethercutt is the moron who said that...

the media was too busy covering soldiers deaths instead of all the important and good things going on over in Iraq. I wish I had the direct quote. It was a beauty.

[fortyfeetunder]

2. Yeah, Nethercutt is a moran

The same bloke who said he believed in term limits. He thinks if the freepers in Eastern WA can vote him in, the rest of the state will love him too.

This moran is renting a space in Blah-vue so he appears to have a connection with Western WA. Yeah, he's as connected to us like maggots on dead meat....KWIM?

Mr. Nethercutt, I don't think you are connected to anything except your misplaced ego. Your displacing Tom Foley effectively ended any real influence this state ever had in the US House. You are not going to eff it up again by displacing Sen Murray.

[tweekinnow]

3. Say LYING IDIOT

This guy is as out of touch as the Lying Sock Puppet,completely indefensible.


http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Politics/Rauch_on_Nethercutt.html
National Journal 08-12-2000

SOCIAL STUDIES: Is There An Excuse For George Nethercutt?

by Jonathan Rauch

<snip>

"Should I be
elected to serve more than two additional terms in the U.S. House of
Representatives following the 104th Congress, by this letter I hereby
resign and direct you to remove my name permanently from the roll of the
members." For years, his Web site declared: "Term limits was one
of the defining issues of my 1994 campaign."


That Nethercutt, by breaking his promise, has committed one of the most
brazen political betrayals of our time is too obvious to be interesting.
More interesting is the question: Is there a case for his
betrayal?

Nethercutt himself has offered all sorts of arguments. Some of them are
pathetic, as when he said (to The Washington Post) that he had
"blurted out" his promise in 1994. Others are irrelevant, as
when he told The American Spectator, "I feel I have to finish the
work I started." (He did not promise, in 1994, to stay until he felt
he was finished.) Some are crass, as when he told The NewsHour With Jim
Lehrer that in 1994, "I didn't realize I'd be in the majority. I
didn't realize I'd be on the Appropriations Committee. That means
something for our district-not for me, but for our district." (In
1994, he had said: "I understand the issue of pork, power, and
productivity. But the world didn't fall apart 30 years ago when Walt Horan
got defeated by a 35-year-old lawyer.") Still others are simply
weird. "I'm less enamored with the idea of term limitations, and I'm
the perfect example of why we don't need them," he told The Post. (I
leave it to you to work that one out.)

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What the hell is he talking about? So much for gibberish and term limits,huh?

Now about the troops George...This from the Seattle P.I.



http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/143771_nethercutt14.html

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The story of what we've done in the postwar period is remarkable," Nethercutt, R-Wash., told an audience of 65 at a noon meeting at the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs.
"It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day."
He added that he did not want any more soldiers to be killed.
<snip>

Ok,I'm nauseated...(tweek)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Nethercut opposed further regulations dealing with mad cow disease

Is this what he's talking about when he says Patty Murray is anti-business?

http://www.king5.com/business/stories/NW_011304WABnethercutt_ranchersEL.118144ab.html

[SeattleDem]

5. nonetheless, Bushco is going to dump a lot of money here

they think Washington is "in play" and possible going to go for Bush this time, and Cheney has already been out here to promote Nethercutt. He's going to have the $$$ and power of Bush and his evil minions behind him, so I'm not going to underestimate this race at all.