Editor's note: Liz Burlingame, a student at University of Washington and member of Seattle Politicore [http://www.seattlepoliticore.org/], is an embedded blogger on the Gregoire bus tour. Not many people know more about babysitting than Bill Jemkins. Babysitting campaign signs, that is.
When we last fully experienced the ongoing contest between Gov. Christine Gregoire and Republican Dino Rossi, it was November 2004 and Gregoire trailed by a meager 261 votes. Lawsuits, hand counts and over six months of legal dispute lead the Supreme Court to declare Gregoire the governor by the clo
His face and arms were dotted with red paint, and his fingers were dipped in blue — something I realized after I shook his hand.
I'm sitting in a hotel room here in Pittsburgh, and the local news tells me that Wednesday night's debate has Sen. Barack Obama rattled.
"Do you notice how she's always drawn to the children?" Tracy Prazo of the State Association of Electrical Workers asked. Her face was inches from the bus window, as she peered down at Gov. Christine Gregoire walking toward a small group of longshoremen.
