King County: The Campaign for Incompetence

By NW Digest Team at July 14th, 2009.

In case you missed it, from yesterday’s SeattlePI.com:

There’s a fight within the fight for King County executive. It’s a tag team grudge match between the four high-profile Democrats running for the job that pits King County Councilmen Dow Constantine and Larry Phillips against state lawmakers Fred Jarrett and Ross Hunter. It boils down to this question – which budget is more busted, the state’s or the county’s?

What was once the race for the mantle of “most liberal” has now transformed into a slugfest over who’s the most incompetent.

Ironically, it’s worth noting that every time the light shines on the issue of incompetent management (whether at the county or state level), these four jokers come out with their best blame game. But the candidate who benefits most is the candidate they all like least, and who the media has so far only reluctantly covered: Susan Hutchison.

Why? Plain and simple: Hutchison is an outsider with leadership experience, and can’t be tied to the current mess that is the legacy of partisan domination in King County.

Tags: Dow Constantine, Fred Jarrett, King County, Larry Phillips, Ross Hunter, Susan Hutchison