Posted by Daniel K at 8/24/07 1:06 p.m.

The risk for Burner is low. The upside is huge. The Eastside support she is receiving in response to all this is significant.

Bush isn't popular in the 8th, not just the 7th. Reichert has no shame having Bush fund raise for him again at another non-public event.

Posted by buddhabrad at 8/24/07 2:03 p.m.

The 8th is blue. The 45th LD, which comprises a large part of the 8th Congressional Dist, is entirely Blue. The Eastside is for the most part Blue these days.

If the sheriff's department hadn't closed SR203 in a number of places on Election Day 2006 due to "flooding", she would have pulled it off. You can't vote if you can't get to the polling place.

In my mind, she didn't run far enough away from Reichert in the last election. She has nothing to lose now and you can see she's gotten away from the spin doctors and is running from the heart.

And Reichert is completely boxed in now.

Posted by buddhabrad at 8/24/07 2:06 p.m.

By saying the 45th is Blue, I should clarify by saying that all 3 elected seats (Senator and 2 Reps) are held by Democrats.

Posted by Will in Seattle at 8/24/07 3:19 p.m.

Reichert is yesterday's news, and represents noone but his Party comrades.

Posted by luckyb at 8/24/07 4:48 p.m.

Burner's step-up-to-the-plate to challenge Reichert
on Monday, is refreshing and is just what people need
in a leader.
She is showing that she is unafraid of these guys and
their machine and Democrats and sane Republicans and
Independents can only respect her for that.
This is a win-win for Burner.

Posted by High Desert Coug at 8/24/07 8:31 p.m.

Boy, that Burner sure is unafraid. Holding an anti-Bush event in Seattle! What courage! What leadership!

What pandering, and the Bush Derangement Syndromes sufferers lap it up.

Posted by jungleal at 8/24/07 8:45 p.m.

Will Darcy be having tea with Cindy Sheehan during the virtual fundraiser? Will Wilson/Plame be beamed in from the Santa Fe, New Mexico, boutique set to lament about their dismissed lawsuit? Will DB be resuming law school for the all important second year? Richard Pope and Mike the Mover and Stan Lippman and Goodspaceguy should consider filing as dems in the 8th district. Qualifications are important.

Posted by MVH at 8/25/07 10:48 p.m.

High Desert Coug - She's not holding her event in Seattle. She's holding it in Bellevue, three blocks from the Bush/Reichert fundraiser. But don't let the facts get in the way of your opinionating.

Posted by High Desert Coug at 8/26/07 5:12 p.m.

I must have struck a nerve if MVH has to resort to nitpicking about city boundaries.

In the Seattle AREA, hatred of Bush is probably more common than love of the Mariners. It's a joke to for one minute even HINT that Burner is "unafraid" because she's holding an anti-Bush rally anywhere between Marysville and Olympia.

Three blocks from the Bush/Reichert fundraiser? She would probably have it closer, but the crowd of anti-Bush protestors will probably have that space filled up.

Yeah, that's REAL brave. Wow, I'm impressed at her courage.

Posted by MVH at 8/26/07 6:33 p.m.

High Desert - Get defensive if you want to, no skin off my back. Is it nitpicking to point out that you had the facts wrong? Seattle is hardly Bellevue. (Check your map.)

Posted by High Desert Coug at 8/26/07 9:31 p.m.

It's nitpicking, in an attempt to ignore my original point. Of course it's no skin off youre back, because you are intentionally trying to obsfucate, and arguing about whether I meant "the city boundaries of Seattle" or "the greater Seattle area" (which virtually everyone outside the city boundaries of Seattle would understand to include Bellevue) simply helps you take this farther afield from my original point.

Luckyb opined, quite ignorantly, that Burner's little hate-fest shows she's "unafraid." That's like saying it's "courageous" to dare to hand out purple scarves at a Husky game.

Posted by viv at 8/27/07 7:58 a.m.

High Desert Coug, I suppose it takes courage to write your opinions in an anonymous comment section? I will gladly congratulate you on your accuracy, as you are correct to assume that the mass of Seattle's populace detest every nano-fiber that makes up the humanoid catastrophe that has enveloped our nation, and is referred to as George Bush.

What bugs you is that you are intelligent enough to identify why he is hated; he is the worst president in American history and has been discredited while still in office. Hell, it takes a heap of courage just for you to live here among us libbies. Blue state special anyone?

Posted by jungleal at 8/27/07 11:31 a.m.

Where is the huge picture of Burner and 'screamin' Howard Dean from last year's campaign season