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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Posted by Joe Turner @ 04:52:56 pm
The Democratic Party wants GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi to denounce the Building Industry Association Washington because of BIAW's latest diatribe against Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire and her administration. Something about columnist Mark Musser and what he said in the March Issue of Building Insight, the BIAW newsletter. He compared the state Department of Ecology to Hitler's Nazi Party. (By the way, as I was writing this, Rossi walked into my office. He's making the rounds at the press houses in Olympia. So I showed him what I was writing. "Who's Mark Musser? Never met him," Rossi said.) Anyway, in its January edition the BIAW said the governor was “a heartless, power-hungry she-wolf who would eat her own young.” But it's only now that the Democratic Party is taking offense at that characterization of their governor. Something tells me the "she-wolf" part wouldn't really bother the governor. The "heartless" and "power-hungry" and "eat her young" probably would, though. What the Gregoire camp really needs is more colorful support from its own bunches of acronynms. You know, the WEA, the SEIU and AFL-CIO. It would make for better theater. Here's the official condemnation of the BIAW:
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