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Pacific County's recent voting pattern precludes folks from saying that Pac County is a red county but I'll tell you ...

Pac county is far from urbane, liberal, soft on crime, certainly not reluctant to put a flag up on every other corner, mention the Lord in public and quote a Bible verse or two.

I grew up in a rural town and community in the Mormon part of Idaho that has a smaller population than Pac County and I'm doing all this whining to underline one simple but hard fact.

I'm writing a political opinion that thrives in rural small-town America. As much as I love the city folks who write here, I'm also struck by those who write from Eastern Washington (take that McRanium and Gibney!).

City folks and urbane political dabblers  do not inform my opinions and I think they've figured out that they waste their time when they try to use political logic on a narrow-minded old curmudgeon.

Rural Washington sure as hell ain't Kansas and whatever is wrong with Kansas isn't wrong with rural Washington.

The Seattle Times article mentioned my name and my opinion. But ya know what?

I'm the one, not Dwight Pelz nor Dave Postman, who determines why I vote the way I do and how and in what form I support my candidates.

Truth of the matter is, unlike the urbanites, I'm not excited about public speeches and advocacies in Seattle.

I am interested and willing however, to mail my opinions to small town papers, take my voice and opinions to red counties and speak on behalf of Maria Cantwell to the rest of rural Washington. I'll be happy to explain why she's the best  qualified to be Senator - if she makes a serious attempt to prove me right.

And as someone else has written, should Maria find a way to recognize or reconcile an earlier misjudgement with this contemporary circumstance in which her judgement ought not be doubted further, I'll pick a fight with any rethuglican swift-bloat frauds pretending otherwise. I'll do more than just vote for her.