HeraldNet: Unions want Hans Dunshee to replace Steve Hobbs in state senate

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This will all be forgotten in a year.
Messers Dunshee and Hobbs will be re elected because they do what's right for the future and not what's polliticly easiest for the moment. Everybody knows Steve Hobbs has taken courageous stands on many issues and deserves to be re elected.
Mike Hope, the only Republican from the 44th district in the legislature, faces an uphill relelection battle, he won in 2008 by a fluke. I hope Ms. Kaufer and Ms. Loomis and other good folks enter the primary and let the voters choose the best person for the job.
Jim DeBlasio | Nov 15, 2009 10:37 pm | 2 replies | Request removal

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Re: This will all be forgotten in a year.
Oops, sorry for the typos. Also now that I think of it, I guess we will be selecting the official Democrat at a nominating convention next year thanks to the Grange initiative and the Cajun primary controversy etc.
Jim DeBlasio | Nov 15, 2009 10:45 pm | Request removal

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Yes Jimmy, makes total sense that in a Democrat tidal-wave year, a Republican would win by a "fluke". Go peddle your Democrat PCO garbage somewhere else. Maybe you should grow a pair and run against Hope yourself. Or are you a scaaaaawwwdy cat?
Steve Johnson | Dec 03, 2009 11:50 pm | Request removal

Turn the focus back to Hobbs and his poor job
As a person who met Hobbs in person this spring, I am only too happy to see most anyone challenge him.

Hobbs seemed very annoyed by people coming to talk with him about issues (even though we had made an appointment). He blatantly told us he had no regard for our state's constitution; he said he did not care that it said it was WA state's paramount duty fund education. And he was rude. He practically called me a baby killer when I told him that universal health care (the only thing he seems to care about) was honorable, but not mentioned in our constitution.

We left his office feeling belittled, frustrated, and very sad that a representative could seem so unkind and uncaring. I have heard similar stories to mine from people who try and call, email, and visit in person.

He needs to represent the people and if he is unwilling to listen to people (especially who make the long trip to Olympia), then he needs to be replaced.
Melissa Metzger | Nov 15, 2009 1:42 pm | 1 replies | Request removal

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Re: Turn the focus back to Hobbs and his poor job
Sorry to hear about your experience. If anyone has the market on "baby killing" it's the democrats with abortion.

As someone who knows Hobbs from years past, there is more that could be said to validate your claim of recent treatment, both personally and professionally.

For a dem to do an "about-face" like this seems fishy.
Nothing New | Nov 17, 2009 9:15 am | Request removal

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Union leadership will support the "working class" as long as it increases their political influence. One word... IAM. They sold off aerospace jobs in the state for political influence. Great for the democrats leading the state party but too bad for the machinists and for the "working class" who benefit from a strong Boeing in WA state. Steve Hobbs irritated the SEIU and the teachers unions? Where do I send my contribution?
John Tremayne | Nov 16, 2009 5:21 am | 0 replies | Request removal

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