Tell Dino Rossi to Concede

[3days]

Dear Me,

Everyone at Progressive Majority has gone home for the holidays, and I just couldn't leave without making sure that all of our members learned about what's happening in the Washington State Governor's race because we can make a difference.

For months, the Right has been calling on Chris Gregoire to concede before all the votes are counted. They've gone to court to prevent the counting of more than 700 valid ballots from King County. But just recently we've found out that none of that matters, because even without those votes, Gregoire has won the hand recount.

Now it's time for Dino Rossi to concede. The right wing in Washington up to the same dirty tricks that the right wing in Florida used in 2000 and we must stop them. They have had their moment in the sun, declaring an early victory and crying foul at every turn. But now we know that the true results, even on their terms, will make Chris Gregoire the next governor of Washington. She promised that if she lost the hand recount, she would concede gracefully. Let's send a message to Dino Rossi demanding that he do the same thing:

http://involve.progressivemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=3540747&l=72647

Progressive Majority fought hard to elect progressive champions to the Washington state legislature. Together, we took back the state senate. We cannot -- and will not -- stand by and let those gains be canceled by the right wing's well-oiled machine attempting to steal this election.

Dean M. Nielsen
Washington State Director
Progressive Majority

P.S. - This is going to be decided in hours so I urge you to act quickly... we must increase public pressure so that local officials know that progressives support every vote being counted. Tell a friend to take action too!

Click here and tell your friends to take action:
http://involve.progressivemajority.org/ctt.asp?u=3540747&l=72634

[leftyandproud]

1. If our guy was down by 8 VOTES, would you be demanding the same thing?

hell no...this thing won't be over for weeks...I'd be pissed if our candidate conceeded being down 8 votes out of several million cast.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. Even after 3 counts....?

don't pull a repug! If our guy was down 8 after 3 counts, I think I would have to learn to deal with it.

[leftyandproud]

7. picture this...

Kerry was up by 50 votes in Ohio. He won according to the official tally.

Auto recount triggered...he gains 40 votes...up 90.

ANOTHER auto recount....he picks up another 30 votes from all counties combined (yay!)

Finally, the republicans win some lawsuits and get a THIRD recount...this time by hand. The repubs found hundreds of votes previously "overlooked" in heavily republican counties. Kerry's margin of victory disappears, and he ends up down by 8.

Would you be urging him to quickly conceed?

[3days]

10. Would I?

Hell no.
Would his supporters, if I had been asking for his concession the whole time.
Hell yes!

[AmyStrange]

11. That's not what happened in WA...

WA state law does not allow recanvassing after the 3rd (hand count) recount is certified. Sam Reed (Sec of State - a repub) has said so. Something like what you envision would be fishy and illegal and Kerry would be an idiot to conceed.

That's not what happened in WA.

Although I agree with you that this is not over by a longshot because the rethugs don't care about recounting legitimately legal votes which is what Gregoire has said she wants (counting every legitimate legal vote) from almost the very beginning. All the rethugs want to do is win no matter how they do it,

d

EDIT: grammatical sense

[3days]

4. For months, the Right has been calling on Chris Gregoire to concede

I agree that turn around is fair play.
Of course he won't but F himm. Let him feel a little of the glove that he has been tossing about.

[pa28]

8. Exactly. I don't pity him at all.

We in Washington have endured 6 weeks of Dino Rossi calling on Gregoire to concede before all the votes were even counted.

To make matters worse we then had to listen to him imply Gregoire was dishonorable and hurting the State of Washington by requesting a manual audit of the vote. But really, even according to the Republican SOS, that is the only way to insure a complete and accurate tabulation.

[sonicx]

9. Of course not, but who cares? It's time for the Democrats to play hardball

and obviously, there won't be any concessions anytime soon, but the Dems should call for it anyway to piss them off. Remember what Rossi said after he was ahead?

[AmandaRuth]

3. what we should do it get the biggest baddest

highway sign, and light it all up with neon and spotlights, demanding that he concede and put on the closest major intersection next to his residence. But wait! That would be rude, crossing the line of fairplay, no one would even think of doing that, would they?

[roguevalley]

5. done

[pa28]

6. Why does Dino Rossi hate Washington?

"She has to decide what she wants to do and what she believes is in the best interests of the state of Washington -- not what's in the best interest of her."

Dino Rossi Dec. 1 2004
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/01/washington.gov/

By dragging this out in court Rossi, by his own reasoning, is acting selfishly and hurting the state. He should concede.