Instead of looking at who's contributing to King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison, today I'm going to look at the other candidates Hutchison's contributors have given to. You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. And although Hutchison (a longtime Republican donor) has claimed consistently that she is not affiliated with any political party, the contributions on her latest campaign finance reports are overwhelmingly from people who give predominantly or exclusively to Republicans.

They include:

$200 from former Republican senator Slade Gorton and his wife, Sally;

$100 from Seattle investor Theodore Choi, a supporter of GOP Rep. Dave Reichert (R-8) and failed Republican senatorial candidate George Nethercutt;

$100 from former Republican state Rep. Toby Nixon;

$50 from James DiPeso, policy director for Republicans for Environmental Protection and a Republican Party donor;

$100 from John McCain and Republican National Committee donor Walter Peterson and his wife, Judith;

$100 from Bellevue-based Delta Airlines pilot Gene Hopp, whose recent donations include $1,000 to the McCain-Palin Victory Fund;

$300 from retired attorney Nash Schott, who has given primarily to Republicans over the years (George "Macaca " Allen; Pat Buchanan), although he did contribute to both Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaigns;

and more.

Although two of Hutchison's recent contributors gave money to candidates with less consistently Republican resumes (Seattle engineer Scott Shock contributed more than $4,000 to Libertarian-turned-Republican Ron Paul, and Schott gave to moderate Maine Republican Olympia Snowe), the vast majority of her latest batch of contributors have consitently supported big-R partisan Republicans.

Although Hutchison has taken pains so far to portray herself as a "nonpartisan nonpolitician," that doesn't square with her history. Hutchison herself has given money exclusively to Republicans over the years, and her donor list (which also includes Discovery Institute policy director Bruce Agnew and the Eastside Republican Club) is made up largely of conservative Eastside residents and fellow longtime Republican donors. My speculation: Now that Hutchison's opponents have been narrowed from seven to one (King County Council member—and declared Democrat—Dow Constantine), the number of contributions from openly Republican donors may start ramping up.