Back in September we said we were going to announce the winners of our first annual awards for sycophants—at the federal, state, county, and local levels: The 2009 Eve Harrington Awards.



And a lot of you have been clamoring for the results, wondering, for example, why a certain U.S. Republican Rep. from Washington state rose so fast in party leadership in D.C. and how a certain conservative Democratic state Rep. was able to secure such a plum committee chairmanship in Olympia?

Unfortunately, we got caught up in the final throes of this fall's election and had to put the awards off.

The good news is, we're glad we waited. Elections are great for flushing out kiss asses, and election 2009 certainly helped us clarify our picks.

2009's crassest stories of brown nosing, back stabbing, and ambition will be answered when our winners get notified with a text that says: "Hi, Eve!"

Yes. We've got your number.