Wikio - Christine Gregoire

Because Aging a Cheap Wine Gives You…Vinegar (HorsesAss.Org)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:17 GMT

In 2004, Washington state witnessed the closest gubernatorial election in history, as then Attorney General Christine Gregoire defeated then real estate broker salesman Dino Rossi by 129 votes (later changed to 133 by a court). A year and some later (April, 2006), the now defunct East Side Journal asked about Rossi What’s his shelf life? : The charismatic and smooth conservative came...

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Because Aging a Cheap Wine Gives You…Vinegar (Hominid Views)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:05:07 GMT

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Gregoire's Lead Increases (Slog)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:58:43 GMT

Gov. Christine Gregoire is leading Republican challenger Dino Rossi 47 to 39 percent in the latest Elway poll, released today. Darryl at Horse's Ass has done an analysis of Gregoire's lead and found that she has "something approaching a 96.9% chance of beating Rossi (if the election were held now)." Predictably, the vast majority of Democrats (81 percent) planned to vote for Gregoire;...

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Varying State Regulations No Fun For Toymakers (Tampa Bay Online)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 GMT

When Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire signed a law banning lead and chemicals known as phthalates from children's products in April, Amy Tucker was thrilled. As president of Matter Group, a Seattle company that makes children's games and stuffed animals out of recycled materials, Tucker's products were already lead- and phthalate-free. But when other states began adopting their own...

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Poll: Gregoire Leads Rossi 47% to 39% (HorsesAss.Org)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:55:36 GMT

Elway has just released their June poll for the Washington state gubernatorial race. The poll of 405 people shows Governor Christine Gregoire leading Dino Rossi 47% to 39%. The 8% spread found by Elway is the largest of the three June polls in this race. An early June SurveyUSA poll found Gregoire leading by +3.5%, and an early June Rasmussen poll found Gregoire up by +7%....

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Washington State's Union Bought Governor (eyeon08.com)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:30:45 GMT

Democrat Governor Christine Gregoire won the governorship of Washington State in 2004 under a cloud of suspicion and possible voter fraud. The election was very close and after a recount Gregoire's Republican rival still had the win. But, the Democrats weren't happy with the recount. They wanted a second and calls went out for giant donations to get it done. To steal the governorship...

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Washington Democrats Play The "Sopranos" Card (Radar)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:22:51 GMT

Sopranos Card" width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /> Back in 2004, Washington state's gubernatorial election went down to the wire and then past it: After three recounts, Democrat Christine Gregoire was ruled the winner over Republican Dino Rossi by a margin of 129 votes. Rossi is running against Gregoire

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Emergency funds allocated to get donation trucks to food banks (Seattle Times)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:08:29 GMT

As food banks around the state struggle with rising fuel costs and higher demand, Gov. Christine Gregoire announced Thursday she would immediately allocate $200,000 from her emergency fund to help the organizations pay for gasoline.

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Dems To Drop Sopranos Theme From Ad (Entertainment - The Post Chronicle)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:58:35 GMT

The Italian Club of Seattle, in a letter to Gov. Christine Gregoire, described the video Wednesday as beyond offensive,...

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Goldy Makes a Good Point (Slog)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:36:45 GMT

Why is it racist when Christine Gregoire uses the Sopranos theme song in an anti-Dino Rossi ad... but totally NO BIG DEAL when Rossi actually refers to Gregoire as "Tony Soprano" in his stump speech?

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Gregoire gives $200K to food banks, lowers food-stamp eligibility (Seattle Times)

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:43:03 GMT

Gov. Christine Gregoire announced today that she is immediately allocating $200,000 from her emergency fund to help food banks around the...

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When Gregoire won, so did her donors (Seattle Times)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:11:55 GMT

Money poured in for a recount in Christine Gregoire's close race against Dino Rossi. Those supporters — including unions and a tribal-gambling group — have benefited during the governor's first term.

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Toymakers Frustrated by Patchwork of Safety Rules (Washington Post)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:53:21 GMT

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Behind The Scenes (Metroblogging Seattle)

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:02:40 GMT

I took this picture this morning at the Race For The Cure that Erin was running. As I was watching the last of the first wave start the race, I realized that I was about 15 feet away from Jean Enersen interviewing Christine Gregoire live on TV. [...]

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Radio ads criticize Gregoire on handling of sex offenders, funding for foster care (Seattle Times)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:44:28 GMT

A building-industry group is running radio ads statewide that accuse Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire of cutting funding for children...

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Dino Rossi: Seattle Voters Suck Ass (Slog)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:49:25 GMT

Gee, look what Dino Rossi is telling voters in Eastern Washington... That's right: Seattle stole the last election . And we pulled off this daring heist by showing up at the polls in 2004 and giving Christine Gregoire a majoritya bare majorityof the votes cast. Hm. I don't see as how it's in Dino's best interest to call Seattle voters a bunch of crooks seeing as how Dino is gonna need to scare up...

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Republicans want probe of Wash. gambling (News: Moldova.org: Politics)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Republican leaders in the Washington Legislature want an investigation into Gov. Christine Gregoire's negotiations on tribal gambling.The gambling compact expanded tribal casinos without revenue sharing with the state, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. The newspaper reported last week that some of the tribes made campaign contributions to Gregoire and other Democratic candidates.In...

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'It is the beginning of a very ugly campaign' (KOMO - News - Local)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:40:50 GMT

Republican Dino Rossi is the Building Industry Association's poster child for change. And the group is pouring out $500,000 for radio ads on everything, from sex offenders to traffic. "I'm offended," Gov. Christine Gregoire said.

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1st Game Changer in the WA St. Governor's Race (eyeon08.com)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:34:03 GMT

There are lots of things a candidate and a campaign can control to a degree in a given race. How the press chooses to cover a particular story is usually not one of those. Thus, while today's Seattle P-I story on the tribal cash pouring in to support Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire is not necessarily a surprise given the details of the topic, the tone of the coverage means this...

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Tracking down campaign donors isn't easy (Seattle Times)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:58:49 GMT

Excerpts from his blog, Postman on Politics Gov. Christine Gregoire's re-election campaign touted her May fundraising success in a news...

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