Slog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Dwight Pelz, chair of the Washington State Democratic Party, endorsed Joe Mallahan for mayor today. In a statement clearly written for him by Mallahan's campaign, he whipped out an already-hackneyed attack : "I've been disappointed time and again by Joe’s opponent, Mike McGinn. He’s a one-issue candidate, now a no issue candidate , who clearly doesn’t get our biggest...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
After every general election, Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36) hosts a forum for political wonks at the Hale's Brewery in Ballard. The panelists have been folks like Dem Chair Dwight Pelz, newly-elected Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-36), blogger David Goldstein, and state Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown (D-3). My favorite panelist was Lynne K. Varner of the Seattle Times , who argued in...
HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Democratic Rep. Brian Baird (WA-03) says he’ll vote against health care reform, no word on Rep. Adam Smith (WA-09). Brad Shannon has the story, along with a statement from Dwight Pelz encouraging members of the delegation to support reform. Baird cited, among other things, wanting more information from CBO. Okay then. Let’s summarize the financial situation: [...]
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... then, few elected leaders were willing to stand up to him. (The exceptions? Mark Sidran, Ron Sims, Dwight Pelz, and Adam Kline, to name a few). Even fewer in the traiditonal media challenged Eyman. Newspaper editors repeatedly reprinted his recycled ramblings on their op-ed pages. Television reporters showed up with their cameras to film him in costume. Radio hosts allowed him to...
Slobber And Spittle (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Caption: Snow enough to build a snow bear (and puppy). This is an example of the local issues I usually cover. Image credit: Cujo359 Today, I received another of those "send us money" letters from my local Democrats. What makes it interesting, in that bad sort of way that such letters are often interesting at this time in the election cycle, is this little bit: From: "Dwight Pelz,...
Strange Bedfellows (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Dwight Pelz, chairman of the state Democratic Party, on Wednesday endorsed Joe Mallahan in the Seattle mayoral race.
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... 2003 and 2005, he didn't make it out of the primary , coming in a close third to Jean Godden and Dwight Pelz, respectively. Rosencrantz is definitely more conservative than most of the candidate crop—supporter of pro-life policies, has a love affair with pavement, supports NIMBYs over nightlife—but he has landed some clever attacks on challenger Mike O'Brien's environmental...
