Does the NRA reward Senator Adam Kline for his help?



Representative Rykdal (D-22) pronounced
"Wrecked-All" blames the NRA

At a recent town hall the ever interesting trio of representatives and senator from the 22^nd Legislative District (Olympia) were complaining and whining about the two Democrat Party outcasts, namely Senator Sheldon (D-35^th) and Senator Rodne (D-48th).  While the High Priest of DemocratParty Purity Dwight Pelz continues to offer sacrifices to the gods and fight to retain some level of control over his party’s religion, it appears that even those who obey the High Priest’s every whim can’t blame all their failures on the two prodigal senators.



Dwight Pelz - Thinking about
impure Democrat Senators

Apparently, the NRA, along with the Koch Brothers, Wal-Mart, evil corporations, and other mysterious shadowy groups have become too powerful to overcome.  No major gun grab in the Washington State legislature this year.  Even with the empty suit governor lobbying on the floor of the house and promising political immunity to Republican legislators, the Democrat Party was only able to convince one hopeless Republican legislator to support a police state. Representative Rykdal (pronounced “Wrecked-All”) waxed particularly poetic as he pointed his finger at the evil NRA for daring to send out a few emails to their membership in Washington State.  Of course, he failed to mention that the NRA actually has 95,000 paid members in Washington State alone.  Thanks to efforts by Senator Adam Kline (D-37^th) to create a police state in Washington it looks like the Democrat Party may be able to push the NRA paid-membership level over the six figure mark this year. 



Senator Kline (D-37), on the right, enjoys a day on the range with the NRA
When he isn't trying to take your guns away, apparently, he likes to shoot
AR-15s and other "assault rifles"

Of course, the truth is that Senator Kline and all the other “anti-gun” and “pro-police state” politicians in this state are the best thing to happen to the NRA since at least the anti-gun initiative 676 was rejected by a 71-29% margin in 1997.  Thanks to the wild-eyed efforts of Dwight Pelz and his loyal crew of followers in Olympia it looks like the NRA’s membership drive will reach new records, and their financial clout will only grow.  If I was the NRA, I would be giving these wild-eyed gun grabbers awards of appreciation for their unintended support.  Maybe the NRA is already doing this.  Perhaps that is why when the media is not watching – Senator Kline appears to enjoy shooting AR-15s at the range with his friend Senator Roach (R-31) and the NRA’s paid lobbyist in Olympia.  It appears that not only does Senator Kline pretend to support civil liberties while he sponsor’s police state legislation, but he also enjoys shooting the very firearms he wants to deny the rest of us in the peasant class.

Leona Consulting's President Lindsay Berschauer off to a rocky start

Lindsay Berschauer's political career is melting
amidst frequent and disastrous political
miscalculations.

Lindsay Berschauer is off to a rocky start in her new venture with Leona Consulting, a political consulting company she created immediately upon her abrupt departure with the Oregon Transformation Project. We predicted Berschauer would provide amusement for the Oregon political spectators in the lead of this story when we wrote,

If Lindsay Berschauer is running the show, Leona Consulting may soon be Oregon's preeminent political gaffe machine.

What we didn't predict, is that she would stumble so soon.

Representative Hope (R?) is hopeless



Rep. Mike Hope (R?-44) makes a lot
of mistakes. 

While it is true we can’t pick our family and we don’t always have the luxury of choosing our political opponents, we certainly can choose who represents our party.  Representative Hope’s recent behavior this legislative session should certainly inspire us to look at him very closely as a good candidate to replace. 



We have no interest in repeating the Democrat Party trainwreck which includes much hissing, booing, and foaming at the mouth tirades against Senator Rodne Tom (D-48) and Tim Sheldon (D-35).  Dwight Pelz as High Priest of Party Purity is sharpening his knife in anticipation of removing any pro-business Democrats from their party.  To quote former State Representative Brandon Williams (and fortunately for everyone – a recent failed judicial candidate) who stated at the February 18^th Democrat Party fundraiser event in Olympia, “Problems like Tom are avoided by good vetting programs by local parties and keeping pro business Democrats out of office.”   We wish him well in his endeavors and we encourage him to keep shrinking the Democrat Party tent even further.  Honesty is also appreciated by everyone, even if only from former Democrat Representatives. 

Ramtha-funded Justice Owens puts the governed in our place

Justice Owens - aka the "Ramtha Judge"

The Washington Supreme Court yesterday decided to put us lowly, ignorant governed people in our place so that we can let our “enlightened leaders” in the legislature do their work to tax us as easily as possible.  In a bizarre decision counter to all the previous decisions by the Washington Supreme Court, it looks Article 1 Section 1 of the Washington State Constitution doesn’t mean what we’ve thought it meant for the last 120 years:

"All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

Wasting our time on rallies

There is a time for everything and everything in its time.  This is true, but we are squandering our time on pointless, worthless, useless, and energy-wasting rallies.  In the last few months there have been dozens of rallies for the 2^nd Amendment.  Don’t get me wrong.  I love a good rally now and again, but what is the point of having a rally on the same issue every other week?  Each rally takes time to organize, schedule, market, promote, and attend.  The hard core activists want to support the issue and the cause, so many of them will keep going to each rally until they finally burn out and stay home.  It is understandable that each rally is put on by a different, uncoordinated group, and they didn’t know about the other rallies.  Maybe they wanted to have their own version of the rally.  This doesn’t excuse the fact that they keep squandering the energy of the pro-freedom activists on pointless rallies.

Sam Hunt gambles to win tribal forgiveness



Sam Hunt (D-Olympia) gambles
on tribal forgiveness

In an obvious effort to restore himself to relevance with Washington State tribes, and as part of his penance to win forgiveness from the powerful tribal lobby, Representative Sam Hunt (D-Olympia) sponsored a bill.  This bill (HB 1295) is certain to expand the growing monopoly on tribal gambling at the expense of all others.  After getting the smack down and losing the tribal affairs aspect of his committee this session, Representative Hunt is working overtime to prove he is pure enough to get back in Tribal good graces.  His efforts to pass the bill may not succeed this session, but it may not be enough to restore perfect party purity.

It isn't hard to discover how Washington tribes
have bought the Democrat Party.

Sam Hunt blew the usual smokescreen for the House Government Accountability and Oversight Committee earlier in the session by claiming that the bill “…just trying to clarify that and strengthen the Legislature’s role in gambling and the expansion of gambling.”  He failed to remind them that the Legislature already has this authority.  He also failed to mention that this bill would only help doom non-tribal gambling by shifting the details of non-tribal gambling from the current commission to the clearly incompetent hands of the legislature.  While the tribes have been supporting this legislation all along, they are also wisely hiding in the shadows by taking no formal position on the bill.  This is good showmanship by the Tribes because the passage of this bill should be viewed as predictable payoff for the many millions of dollars in campaign donations they have delivered to (mostly) Democrat politicians and the Democrat Party.  This has probably helped influence the decision to leave Washington State by Gambling Commissioner Rick Day.  Day can see the deck is stacked against his employment relevance in Washington.

Sam Hunt and Karen Fraser's Double-D Campaign Plan

Sam Hunt (D) announcing his party's
attack strategy on Gary Alexander (R)



The Hunt and Fraser opposition
campaign theme

From inside the smokeless back rooms of the Democrat Party campaign planning headquarters, hosted by their taxpayer-subsidized, government union supporters, the details on the future of the Washington State Democrat Party’s campaign attack plan for the next few years is beginning to take shape.  Both Senator Karen Fraser (D-22) and Representative Sam Hunt (D-22) have formally announced their plan to crucify Gary Alexander (R-2) who was appointed a few weeks ago by the Thurston County Commissioners to become Thurston County Auditor replacing Kim Wyman, recently elected as Washington Secretary of State.  Will they attack Gary Alexander for being incapable, inexperienced, or for something else he has done?  No.  They are coming after him using the Double-D attack plan.  The DD plan stands for “Double-Dipper” and refers to the fact that Gary will be collecting a paycheck both for being a legislator ($44K) and for being Thurston County Auditor ($105K).  It is true that Gary is a double-dipper.   However, these public announcements by both Senator Fraser and Representative Hunt on how they plan to attack Gary Alexander in the special election in 2013 for Thurston County Auditor provide a logical path for Auditor Alexander that will fit with his public pronouncements that he plans to retire from the Legislature after this session. 

Senator Adam Kline (D) supports a police state

Senator Kline (D-Seattle)
Supports Police State

Senator Adam Kline (D-Seattle) along with fellow Senators Murray (D-Seattle) and Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle) are proving their natural tendency to support police-state type legislative creep in the bills they propose.  Their recent vocal support and endorsement of Senate Bill 5737 is a classic example of this trend.   SB5737 allows the local sheriff or police to conduct an annual search of homes without the need for a warrant (or even a warning or notice) once a year.  In theory, the bill they supported was to outlaw certain types of firearms and impose a draconian police state inspection process that is clearly not constitutional.  Senator Kline pretends he is a true believer in protecting the civil rights of citizens, but there appear to be exceptions to this “belief.” In the world inhabited by Senator Kline and his fellow travelers, warrantless home search by the police is okay because it only applies to gun owners.  Some animals are more equal than others.

Senator Ed Murray (D-Seattle) also likes the idea
of police state tactics

This bill raised the obvious question that if it is okay to have warrantless, no notice searches or “inspections” of homes by the police for firearms, why not for other reasons?  Today it might be guns, tomorrow it could be light bulbs, or energy rating for your appliances, or the food you give your cat.  Perhaps Senator Kline could justify supporting police searches or “inspections” for approved kids toys, low-flow toilets, or proper reading material.  This slippery slope just becomes more slippery every time it is traveled.

Karma slaps Lindsay Berschauer (R)

Former Clackamas County Chairwoman
Lynn Peterson was appointed today by
Washington Governor Jay Inslee as the
new Secretary of Transportation.

Lindsay Berschauer (R-Wilsonville) received a potent dose of Karma today when Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced Lynn Peterson as his new appointee for Secretary of Transportation.

Berschauer's newest venture is Leona Consulting, a political consulting company. She has recently struck out on her own after a turbulent exit from the Oregon Transformation Project. Her first appearance as Leona Consulting resulted in a defeat when she was lobbying against the Columbia River Crossing project. John Davis voted in favor of the CRC project. Davis was Berschauer's challenger for the Ore. State Rep nomination in the 26th Legislative District when it was found out she was dating the former State Representative Wingard who was drummed out of office because of a sex-scandal with a previous intern.

The announcement today that Wash. Governor Inslee has appointed the former Clackamas County Commissioner Lynn Peterson to the Secretary of Transportation post who will also oversee the CRC project added insult to Berschauer's injury. Peterson is a former friend and colleague of Jamie Damon who bore the brunt of Berschauer's Portland creep campaign.

Dwight Pelz - High Priest of Democrat Party Purity



Dwight Pelz - State Democrat
Party Chair - regular attire

Last week, State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz, also known as the high priest of party purity formally excommunicated Democratic Senators Rodney Tom (D-Medina) and Tim Sheldon (D-Potlach) for ruining the monopoly of Democrat control of all branches of Washington State government.  Both Senators appeared to laugh it off, which will probably ensure that Dwight Pelz continues to send out ranting emails about how these two state senators are not true Democrats.  In an effort to purge the party of those who are not pure Democrats, Dwight will don the priestly ceremonial costumes of his office and keep the chant among the party faithful.  Democrat Party  supporter Ramtha has nothing on Dwight Pelz. 

Dwight Pelz - Enforcing Party Purity

Party purity is important to Dwight Pelz and most of the increasingly radicalized and homogenized leadership in the Washington State Democrat Party.   In many ways, Dwight Pelz is correct – neither Senator seems to have completely swallowed the irresponsible spending and taxing programs, environmental extremist insanity, or the other increasingly out-of-touch group-think positions taken by the Washington State Democrat Party as a matter of both religion and policy.  Part of the infliction of pain that Dwight promised to the wayward state senators was to stop providing party support to them during election time.  To this, Senator Tim Sheldon had the following response (quoted from Washington State Newswire):

“They’ve never given me any financial support, they do not help my candidacy in any way, so it   is kind of funny that they want to withdraw support – I mean, what support? I make a living running against Dwight Pelz and his Seattle liberals.” 

Another point Sheldon made was that Dwight Pelz spelled his name as “Shelton” (which is a town in Sheldon’s 35th legislative district) “He doesn’t even spell my name right anymore,” he sighed.

 

We would like to encourage Dwight Pelz to continue his party sponsored Jihad against any independent Democrats in the Washington State Democrat Party who are not pure enough for the increasingly Leftist and nutty Washington State Party.  We have some suggestions for other non-conformists he may want to chase away with his party purity pogrom. 

Dwight Pelz - Out of Costume

In the 31^st Legislative District, Representative Chris Hurst from Enumclaw is clearly outside Dwight Pelz’s purity circle.  He accepts donations and election support from the NRA, gun owners, hunters, builders and others who Dwight Pelz does not allow in the clubhouse.  Additionally, Representative Hurst can’t even bring himself to run as a Democrat, preferring to call himself an “Independent Democrat”- whatever that means.  The other black mark against Representative Hurst is the fact that he was a former police officer, and everyone knows that a cop can’t really be a Democrat. 

Out on the Wet Coast, we have Representative Brian Blake (D-Aberdeen) who dares to defy the environmental extremists (and PETA) by sponsoring a bill to allow cougar hunting by dogs and various other clear-eyed proposals that do not follow orthodox Democrat Party dictates.  Ex-communication may be in order there as well.

In fact, rather than go through a full listing of all the heterodox Democrat legislators, why not just go back to the last legislative session and use the self-created list of Democrat legislators who were in the “Road Kill” Caucus and demonize all of them as elected officials who have failed the party purity test?  As Dwight dons his high priest costume and resumes his party purity purge ceremonies surrounded by the Seattle purists, we wish him luck and support him in his efforts.  He may be crazy, but at least he proudly wears the costume of a true Washington Democrat.

Dwight Pelz takes his job as High Priest of Democrat Party Purity very seriously