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Like you and several others, I mucked around in the PDC database for a while over the weekend.  (It was for what was going to be a post on my blog, but I hit the wrong button just before submitting it and the %*$#@& thing disappeared into the aether ... grrrrr.)

Anyway, I came across something strange about the Speaker's Roundtable.  The 2006 "List of Political Committees Registered by Calendar Year" displays the organization's address and telephone number as:

279 SW 9th St
Chehalis WA  98532

(360) 748-4224

Punching that phone number into Qwest's online directory, I found a business located at the above address, but it sure wasn't the Speaker's Roundtable.  Apparently, Kevin Carns and Jennifer Pierson either share office space or moonlight as manufacturers of goat milk-based nutritional products.

Cursory research using the PDC information and Google uncovers no connection (aside from the shared location and phone number) between the Speaker's Roundtable and Mt. Capra Whole Food Nutritionals.  None of the names on Mt. Capra's site appear as either contributors or expenditures for the Roundtable.  In fact, the Roundtable reports no contributions whatsoever from anyone in Chehalis, and their only Chehalis expenditure since 2000 was a $604.09 "miscellaneous reimburse expenses" on June 28, 2004.  For the record, the recipient of that check was Amy DeBolt, wife of House minority leader Richard DeBolt.  He represents the 20th LD, is in the front ranks of the state GOP's sex offender shenanigans, and lives in Chehalis.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever -- Larry Andersen
Blogging at Peace Tree Farm

by N in Seattle on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 11:38:05 AM PST

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LOL, and it is pretty lame:

The person depicted in the postcard is a level 3 sex offender last known to be in Pierce County. He is "considered at a high risk to reoffend" and is somewhere in the community, but "has no supervision requirement", so we can't be sure exactly where he is. There are laws to protect sex offenders from harassment, so I'm not going to post his name, but go to the Pierce County list of Level 3 Offenders and you'll find him listed in an unincorporated part of the county. I post the description of his brutal crimes in the extended entry.

So these fucks were so lazy they went to their local county list and plucked one out, saying on cards labeled "SEX OFFENDER NOTIFICATION" in every swing district in the state with a header that says "This violent predator lives in your community" on the other side, but on the other hand decided to block out his eyes and name.

The fucking slimebags knew that they were sending misleading fakes, becuase they would have been sued for sure if the put the man's name and face on there. Shitstick Sharkansky says, well he could be living anywhere, so it is real!

They fucked up big with this and need to be held accountable.

by eastside lib on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 01:17:28 PM PST

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But where is the Democrats on this, the party, Paul Berendt? They are sitting around on their collective asses while another dirty trick happens under everyone's nose.

Only thing keeping this out there is from all the blogs jumping on it, otherwise we probably wouldn't ever hear shit from our "leaders". Paging Paul Berendt, please get in front of a camera and start doing your job!

by eastside lib on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 11:11:15 AM PST

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I'm sure I'm not the only person to notice that every single LD in which they've dumped their sleazy postcards is a "swing district" with both Republican and Democratic legislators.  

Also in that category are the 2nd, 10th, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th, 41st, 42nd, 44th, 45th, and 48th.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever -- Larry Andersen
Blogging at Peace Tree Farm

by N in Seattle on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 11:50:53 AM PST

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...we caught it early and can make sure that we on the ground counteract it in our affected districts. So shout the truth loud and long to your local Dems (and any Independents you fear may be taken in by this scam) if you're living in one of the targeted precincts.

I'm not exactly surprised that the 47th was targeted, though.  Not because it's one of the most swing districts in King County, but because the Democrats have been sloooooooowly gaining ground there, potentially making it less "swingy" over the coming election cycles.

by palamedes on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 09:12:39 PM PST

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