Jolt
Afternoon Jolt: Reichert, Microsoft
Today's Winner is Rep. Dave Reichert
Suzan DelBene's campaign sent out a sarcastic and kinda angry press release today, bashing Reichert for refusing a series of debates.
"Reichert’s schedule is full, and he has no time explain his record to voters," reads the DelBene presser. "He won’t be bothered to be held accountable, and he is far too entrenched to care. In fact, if your interview, forum, event, BBQ, meeting, etc., isn’t already on his schedule—too bad. He’s busy."
We have a theory here at PubliCola. It's called the Ross Perot Theory. It goes like this: If you're demanding an excessive amount of debates, you're probably losing. DelBene challenged Reichert to four.
And DelBene's argument that Reichert only needs to be in DC "for just 6 full days in September and 5 full days in October" and thus has the time for a debate comes off as totally weird to us. Like, shouldn't he be in DC as much as possible? Isn't that what we pay him for?
The goofy footnote: Reichert's spokespeople told the PI.com they hadn't even ruled out debating DelBene yet. "We're not ruling it out, we're just trying to rearrange things to make it work," they told PI reporter Chris Grygiel.
Today's Loser is Microsoft
Not so much because, as the Rossi campaign says, Sen. Patty Murray voted "against the interests of job creators here in Washington state" —a bill Murray voted for today closes a corporate tax break that benefits companies like Microsoft that do work overseas—but more because Microsoft, which, indeed, did lobby against the bill , is Murray's top contributor this election cycle.
Employees at Microsoft have contributed $131,375 to Murray.
And for what. Harumph.
Suzan DelBene's campaign sent out a sarcastic and kinda angry press release today, bashing Reichert for refusing a series of debates.
"Reichert’s schedule is full, and he has no time explain his record to voters," reads the DelBene presser. "He won’t be bothered to be held accountable, and he is far too entrenched to care. In fact, if your interview, forum, event, BBQ, meeting, etc., isn’t already on his schedule—too bad. He’s busy."
We have a theory here at PubliCola. It's called the Ross Perot Theory. It goes like this: If you're demanding an excessive amount of debates, you're probably losing. DelBene challenged Reichert to four.
And DelBene's argument that Reichert only needs to be in DC "for just 6 full days in September and 5 full days in October" and thus has the time for a debate comes off as totally weird to us. Like, shouldn't he be in DC as much as possible? Isn't that what we pay him for?
The goofy footnote: Reichert's spokespeople told the PI.com they hadn't even ruled out debating DelBene yet. "We're not ruling it out, we're just trying to rearrange things to make it work," they told PI reporter Chris Grygiel.
Today's Loser is Microsoft
Not so much because, as the Rossi campaign says, Sen. Patty Murray voted "against the interests of job creators here in Washington state" —a bill Murray voted for today closes a corporate tax break that benefits companies like Microsoft that do work overseas—but more because Microsoft, which, indeed, did lobby against the bill , is Murray's top contributor this election cycle.
Employees at Microsoft have contributed $131,375 to Murray.
And for what. Harumph.
