Democrats sue over how Gregoire's opponent is ID'd

[UpInArms]

Source: Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state Democrats sued a state official Tuesday to get a Republican listed on the ballot, arguing a candidate is obscuring his party identity by ballot language that says he "prefers GOP party."

The candidate, Dino Rossi, is facing a rematch this November with Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire, who beat him by 133 votes four years ago after three counts and a court challenge.

The lawsuit the party filed against Secretary of State Sam Reed argues that "allowing Mr. Rossi to obscure his true party preference and affiliation directly violates the law, would mislead a substantial portion of the voting public and would breed cynicism and mistrust in our public institutions and, indeed, in our electoral process."

Under Washington's new "top two" primary system, Rossi was allowed to pick how he wanted to be identified. Local polling has shown some voter confusion about the Republican nickname GOP, an abbreviation for Grand Old Party.

A recent independent poll found that Gregoire had a 10-point advantage over Republican Rossi but a 4-point advantage when Rossi was listed as GOP.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WASHINGTON_GOVERNOR?SITE=MOCOD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-09-23-20-46-53

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cheaters will be cheaters will be cheaters

oh - btw - look up cheater in the dictionary and you will find the definition of GOP or Republican

[musette_sf]

1. Dino.... another SoreLoserMan n/t

[msongs]

2. good material for an ad - rossi is lying about his party he is so ashamed of it nt

[Newsjock]

3. The 'Grand Old Party Party'?

I guess ol' Dino doesn't quite fully grasp acronyms yet.

[Wizard777]

6. Or political history. That "Grand Old Party" is the Democratic Republican Party.

That technically nolonger exists. We were Siameese twins seperated by an operation called The Civil War. We have since gone our seperate ways. We have allowed the Republicans to unofficially use GOP. But we could use it too. We have the greater entitlement to it be because we had top billing in that Grand Old Party. That's why both the Democrats and Republicans claim Thomas Jefferson as their founder. It was all one big old party.

[MadMaddie]

4. Dino is the scumbags of scumbags

He is trying to appear in his ads as a average family guy not the raving lunatic he is.

[JimDandy]

5. Republican candidates all over the country

are using G.O.P., but it is rampant in WA State due to new primary system. We even had, Faulker the current Chair of the Spokane County Republican Party list his party preference as none when he ran for state office this year. That is such bs. This primary system decision NEEDS to be revisited by the U.S. Supreme Court.