Dino Rossi Calls for New Election
Dino Rossi has challenged Christine Gregoire to a runoff election. She has refused.
Given the bizarre circumstances of the governor’s race, I don’t find Rossi’s request unreasonable. After all, using Christine Gregoire’s logic before she pulled ahead in the race, the election is still a tie.
I sent the following letter to the editor of the Seattle Post Intelligencer:
Dear Editor:
Christine Gregoire is a hypocrite.
When Dino Rossi won the first vote count by 261 votes, she screamed, "It’s a tie."
When Rossi won the second vote by 42, she screamed even louder, "It’s a tie."
In the manual recount, when she was ahead by 10 votes before King County starting finding new ballots to count, she didn’t call it a tie, she said, "I’m the winner."
Now that she’s won by 129 votes, which is half of Rossi’s original margin of victory, she still says "I’m the winner." How come it’s not a tie anymore?
If a 261 vote lead was a tie, then why isn’t a 129 vote lead a closer tie?
As for the cost, she had no problem forcing the taxpayers to pay for a sloppy manual recount. Since when has any politician been sincerely concerned about forcing taxpayers to spend money on things they don’t need or want?
Yes, there should be a runoff election and King County should pay for it. It was their negligence and repeated "mistakes" that have called the legitimacy of this election into question.
Why does it feel like I’m living in the Ukraine?
Chip Gibbons