Fired prosecutor, John McKay: GOP pressured for probe in voting fraud to tilt WA governor's race

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17552880/site/newsweek/page/2/

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Another fired prosecutor, John McKay, of Seattle, tells NEWSWEEK that local Republicans pressured him to launch a criminal probe of voting fraud that would tilt a deadlocked Washington governor's race. "They wanted me to go out and start arresting people," he says, adding that he refused to do so because there was "no evidence." After McKay was fired in December, he says he also got a phone call from a "clearly nervous" Elston asking if he intended to go public: "He was offering me a deal: you stay silent and the attorney general won't say anything bad about you." (Elston says he "can't imagine" how McKay got that impression. The call was meant to reassure McKay that the A.G. would not detail the reasons for the firings.)

[DemKR]

1. I remember a few tidbits on the WA race

From the Republicans!

1. Dino Rossi was already the "declared winner," according to them, when Chris Gregoire was seeking a recount.
2. When the votes were actually recounted, gasp, Gregoire was ahead by 10 votes.....Even when she was ahead, Gregoire REFUSED to declare victory until all votes were counted, unlike her opponent, Rossi, who was already opposed to do so.
3. What did Rossi do? He changed his mind and said that now he also wanted the rest of those counted. Gregoire's lead increased to 110 and after several sets of careful counts, the SOS declared Gregoire the winner. Rossi cried foul.

What it proved:

-Gregoire wanted all the votes counted even when she was ahead.
-Rossi opposed recounts when he was ahead but was their champion when he was behind.

Does that pretty much sum it up? I think so.

[SeattleGirl]

2. McKay wasn't the only one pressured in the WA race. The Sec of State

also was, and he refused to bend to the pressure from the Republican party, and he's a Republican! The party thugs were really pissed off at him because he felt it was more important to play by the rules as stated in the law, than to try and pre-emptively declare Rossi the winner before the legal recounts were done.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

3. That just the tip of the ice berg

Republican national was all over that race.
And there is more dirt on the republicans than you would even believe.

[DemKR]

4. Yeah, Sam Reed earned my kudos

I was actually shocked about it. He is a REAL sec. of state that doesn't let politics interfere etc.

[SeattleGirl]

5. Absolutely agree with you, Dem KR. I voted for him too, because

as I said, the law is more important to him than doing what the party wants him to do. Would be be that more politicians were that way.