Beren to Run as Write-In Against McDermott in WA-07

My good friend Steve Beren has answered the call of duty and filed with the Secretary of State as an official write-in candidate in the Washington 7th Congressional District. Now, Seattle voters have an alternative to the most left-wing congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives, “Baghdad Jim” McDermott. According to a press release from Washington State Republican Party Luke Esser:

I am pleased to announce that you will have a Republican alternative to the far left Jim McDermott when you fill out your primary ballot. Steve Beren filed today with the Secretary of State’s office as an official write-in candidate for Congress in the 7th Congressional District. With no Republican on the printed primary ballot, let’s make sure we have a voice in the November general election by writing in Steve Beren for Congress.

Steve Beren is a conservative Republican who will represent this district well. He is against Jim McDermott’s policies of wasteful spending and higher taxes. He’ll fight for fiscally responsible government. Please help spread the word about Steve’s grassroots campaign as a write-in candidate and write in Steve Beren for Congress.

Beren also ran against McDermott in 2006 and 2008.

According to comments on Steve’s Facebook page, he originally had no plans to run for office this year, instead serving as Art Coday’s U.S. Senate campaign manager until Coday exited that race to run for state representative in the 32nd Legislative District. After no Republican filed to run against McDermott, many people asked him to consider a write-in campaign, and he finally agreed in the last few days to do so.

Please consider donating/volunteering generously to Steve’s campaign at his website here.

Town Hall War of Words Continues

The town hall battles of the past few weeks have indeed revealed one thing: some in Washington’s Democratic Congressional delegation are increasingly unafraid to get in the trenches and lob partisan bombs.

But given their often genteel manner of years past, you might say its No More Mr. Nice Guy for them.

Likely emboldened by having faced little opposition in recent election years, and thus feeling safe in their positions, more of the delegation is willing to ride the partisan hard edge. The hard party line was once left to be carried by other members of the delegation in safer liberal districts, like Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott (D-07).

For McDermott’s part, at a town hall meeting he held during a Democratic Party meeting in West Seattle last week, the state’s most liberal Congressman declared of the President’s embattled reform agenda, “This is War.”

But with a Democratic White House, and Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress, some might interpret this new brashness as simply misplaced confidence. Two cases in point…

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Jim McDermott Gets Skewered, Again

Last week we detailed the latest in a series of recent controversies ensnaring Seattle’s 11-term U.S. Representative Jim McDermott.  We have also noted the outrage by some members of Congress at several pork projects in the Northwest.

Now, McDermott is in the headlines again, or to be more accurate, making the front-page of the Seattle Times.  What’s the long-time Congressman in the news for now?  

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Seattle’s Jim McDermott Embroiled in New Controversy

Those familiar with Washington State politics know that 7th District Congressman Jim McDermott has been dragged through the press a lot in recent years.

There was his pre-war trip to Iraq secretly financed by Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency. That proved to be an especially embarrassing episode for the Congressman.  

McDermott has also been criticized in the past for his privately funded globetrotting.

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