Over at HosrsAss, Darryl has a bitter diatribe about the new Senate Leader in WASTATE, Rodeny Tom “D.”
Darryl, a scientist, is usually rational. Here too he reviews the WASTATE law and finds that Tom can not be replaced unless a court rules that an election is needed for malfeasance, “In practice, Superior Court judges have been reluctant to allow recall petitions to go forward unless clear violations of the law are involved. ” .. not bloody likely “short of some remarkable revelation of legal wrongdoing,” The right has tried this … Tea Party types tried to recall Secretary of State Sam Reed in 2005 , unsuccessful. The radical right effort to to recall Public Lands Commissioner, Peter Goldmark, suffered the same fate.Darryl asserts that Tom will not get r- elected when he comes up for reelection in two years. After all Tom’s 48th LD is now solidly blue. “No matter what party Tom claims to “prefer,” his actions are unambiguous. He’s a Republican now. And the 48th LD is most certainly NOT going to elect a Republican state senator.”Why? Darryl himself is a good example of the voters in the 48th. He and his wife are UW profs. Their neighbors range from the well paid Microsoft gurus to investor class denizens of Hunt’s Point. Obama AND ROMNEY came to this part of WASTATE not for votes but for money.
Are Darryl and the Mrs. true blue Democrats? They may be but this does not mean their neighbors are. While anyone sane today would “prefer” the Democratic label, accepting the discipline that Darryl wants would mean being hard line pro union and higher taxes … not necessarily what “prefers D” means in the affluent 48th.
Lets assume that Rodney Tom serves as Majority Leader of the WASTATE Senate … under the “D” label. Lets assume he supports Governor Insley (D) social legislation and share the rather business like ideas about taxes and programs the led to Insley’s election. Now we can hope that the national radical republicans fail n their effort to undermine the economy and WASTATE, two years from now is looking good.
Will Darryl’s “blue” neighbors reject Rodney Tom?