KING 5 Interviews Senate Hopefuls Didier, Widener

Anchor Allen Schauffler’s interviews begin with Clint Didier at about the 14:38 mark. Both candidates are running as Republicans, challenging incumbent (”entrenched”) U.S. Senator Patty Murray.

On the web: ClintDidier.org and ChrisWidener.org.

Sen. Murray Gets “Blitzered” By CNN for Pay to Play

As NWDIGEST reported recently, former NFL Redskins tight end Clint Didier has announced an exploratory committee to challenge Patty Murray.

SeattlePI.com reports that author Chris Widener is also exploring a run against the state’s senior U.S. Senator.

Former NFL Pro May Challenge Patty Murray

Thanks to a reader who sent along this link to this Tri-City Herald article: Clint Didier is considering a run against our state’s senior Senator, Patty Murray.

Didier has two championship rings from Super Bowls XVII and XXII (see his NFL record here).

He played for the Washington Redskins from 1982 to 1987 and for the Green Bay Packers from 1988 to 1989.

Now a high school football coach in his Eastern Washington hometown of Connell, Didier has formed an “exploratory committee” to consider taking on Murray.

We’re tracking down the former NFL pro Tight End, and will post and update if and when we’re able to reach him.

Dicks, Murray and the Defense Industry Lobby

Last week hotshot KPLU reporter Austin Jenkins got the scoop on Rep. Norm Dicks being named in a report on defense earmarks and campaign contributions. Front-page news, right?

Flashback to March of this year: FBI Investigates Lobbying Firm That is Generous to Murray, Dicks.

So where’s the follow up?  Shouldn’t this be front-page news?

Apparently allegations of political corruption in the form of pay-to-play in our favor factory Congress isn’t a story anymore.  Where’s the Seattle Times of 2008? Or the Seattle Times of 2007? Anybody? Anybody? Bueler?

Leaked Email Reveals Dem Astro-Turf Operation

UPDATE: Welcome MichelleMalkin.com readers!

A leaked email originating from Congressman Jay Inslee’s office may reveal a widespread astroturfing effort on behalf of Washington Democrats and liberal interest groups to pack town halls with “grassroots supporters” of government-run health care.

In stark contrast to a spontaneous grassroots groundswell against President Obama and Congressional Democrats’s government-run health plan, it appears both overt and covert efforts are underway to orchestrate support for the President’s agenda from the highest-levels of the political Left.

In the email which follows below the jump, Inslee’s official Congressional scheduler forwarded to State Democratic Chairman Dwight Pelz a list of upcoming town halls the Congressman has scheduled.

Pelz then forwarded the email with a note saying “Let’s keep turning people out for these!” to high-ranking Democrat and union organizers including: “progressive” political group FUSE Executive Director Aaron Ostrom, Organizing for America State Director Dustin Lambro (the President’s on-going campaign arm housed at the DNC), and Washington State Labor Council Political Director Benjamin Lawver (one of the state’s most powerful union committees).

A Longview event focusing on Mt. St. Helens with Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, along with embattled Congressman Brian Baird, was cancelled in recent weeks after Lambro, the OFA organizer, mis-construed the purpose of the event in an email to supporters.

NWD Contributor Nansen blew the lid off that story in an earlier post titled, “Going Stealth in Longview.”

The email trail seems to suggest an on-going and coordinated campaign among Democratic Congressmen, Democratic Party leaders, as well as official campaign arms of liberal interest groups and unions, to issue marching orders for members and activists.  Similar efforts to disguise ObamaCare astroturfing as spontaneous grassroots efforts have occurred in other parts of the country as well.

The email follows…

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