Jolt
Tuesday Jolt: Seattle Times Has a Great New Reporter
Today's Winner: The Seattle Times
Reporter and editor Chris Grygiel had a standout piece on Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna's breakfast campaign kickoff today: quick, to-the-point, balanced and critical.
Grygiel, of course, was the longtime political reporter and news editor at the PI.
However, he's now the local Associated Press bureau chief—and his crisp copy is available and running where his name was once verboten: At the Seattle Times.
Today's Loser: 21,000 Voters
As we noted in Fizz, a computer glitch at the Dept. of Licensing—where people updated their addresses or registered to vote—may have prevented 21,000 voters from receiving ballots.
They can still vote with provisional ballots if they realize they got effed over and if they go to their county elections office, but many are likely to miss out on this year's major issues and races.
Today's Runner-up Loser: Rob McKenna
State AG and gubernatorial candidate McKenna is looking to be the next Dan Evans —a moderate Republican who can ascend to the governor's mansion in blue, blue Washington.
Unfortunately for McKenna, Evans himself, who McKenna had on hand at his campaign kickoff this morning in Bellevue, told PI reporter Joel Connelly that he had doubts about McKenna's big promise to increase education funding in the state.
From the PI:
Reporter and editor Chris Grygiel had a standout piece on Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna's breakfast campaign kickoff today: quick, to-the-point, balanced and critical.
Grygiel, of course, was the longtime political reporter and news editor at the PI.
However, he's now the local Associated Press bureau chief—and his crisp copy is available and running where his name was once verboten: At the Seattle Times.
Today's Loser: 21,000 Voters
As we noted in Fizz, a computer glitch at the Dept. of Licensing—where people updated their addresses or registered to vote—may have prevented 21,000 voters from receiving ballots.
They can still vote with provisional ballots if they realize they got effed over and if they go to their county elections office, but many are likely to miss out on this year's major issues and races.
Today's Runner-up Loser: Rob McKenna
State AG and gubernatorial candidate McKenna is looking to be the next Dan Evans —a moderate Republican who can ascend to the governor's mansion in blue, blue Washington.
Unfortunately for McKenna, Evans himself, who McKenna had on hand at his campaign kickoff this morning in Bellevue, told PI reporter Joel Connelly that he had doubts about McKenna's big promise to increase education funding in the state.
From the PI:
The Democrats are arguing that McKenna’s ambitious plans for K-12 education would cost $2 billion, at a time when state government is facing an additional $2 billion shortfall.
“It just doesn’t add up to reality,” said Reesa Kossoff, spokesperson for state Democrats.
“I don’t know if he can do it totally,” Evans said when asked if McKenna’s suggested savings would finance his education agenda.
