Lori Sotelo
by Karen McCall, PCO
[From the email underground, this letter to Lori Sotelo came to The Reagan Wing as a comment to another article.]
Dear Lori Sotelo,
My name is Karen McCall – PCO in the 31st District. I have been a PCO for over 20 years. I am very unhappy with what has happened during this election time. According to the KCGOP PDC reports, the State Senate Caucus passed through the KCGOP $115,000.00. You gave the money to four Republican State Senate Candidates who had never been elected before including $33,000.00 to Steve Litzow in the 41st District.
Another pro-death Catholic
Steve Litzow was endorsed by, and sits on the board of, the Washington State National Abortion Rights Action League Political Action Committee. As you well know, NARAL is radically fanatic about abortion on demand, anywhere, anytime, anyplace, taxpayer funding, no parental notification, on and on ad nauseum. They go against everything we stand for as Republicans.
While Litzow was claiming to be a Republican, his board was actively endorsing, donating to and encouraging members to actively campaign for endorsed Democrats against our Republicans in this county in both the House and Senate positions. By the way, Litzow is the ONLY Republican they endorsed. The rest are Democrats.
Since you personally control who gets the $ and exclusively write the checks, I would like to know HOW you could give that kind of money to someone like Steve Litzow and give NOTHING to our seated State Senator in MY district – Senator Pam Roach!!!! You may or may not agree with Senator Roach personality wise, but she has ALWAYS won and voted Republican in Olympia. She works her heart out for all of us, gets in the face of the DSHS in Washington State, and is VERY Pro-Life and not afraid to say so.
Pam Roach was dragged through a “Kangaroo Court” in Olympia by the Republican Senate Caucus leader who seems to have an axe to grind. She had no chance to have either a proper hearing or be treated fairly under the Senate Rules. You did NOTHING to go to Olympia and defend her. You did NOTHING in the media to defend her.
She was once again challenged this year, this time by a MAINSTREAM Republican who won with her in the top 2 Primary. He had such a terrible scandalous record that a) even the Democrats who have run against Senator Roach in the past put out a press release saying it was painful for them, but they had to recommend Senator Roach; b) out of embarrassment, the Mainstream Republicans had to withdraw their endorsement of her Republican opponent from their web site; and c) the KCGOP BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AND EXCLUSIVELY ENDORSED HER OVER HER REPUBLICAN OPPONENT!!!!!!!
And you, the KCGOP County Chair gave her NO MONEY!!!! NOTHING!!!!! Since neither the State Senate Caucus nor anyone else may give the KCGOP $ and tell you who you will and will not give it to – it is entirely YOUR failure and it is unacceptable.
Senator Roach won anyway! Strongly pro-life! Strongly supportive of our Platform. WITHOUT YOUR HELP!!!!!
To add further insult to injury, since YOU control the KCGOP website content, you had the NERVE to put Steve Litzow on the KCGOP website in October as the HERO of the Month! You give no $ to and ignored Senator Roach as the Hero of the month, but you give $33,000.00 to and tout Steve Litzow as the Hero of the month.
I see that this month you have President Ronald Reagan as the Hero of the Month. If President Reagan were still alive, I am sure he would be very embarrassed to be associated with someone who is on the NARAL Board I wonder how long before Steve Litzow does what Rodney Tom did after he took out Luke Esser in the 48th and what Fred Jarrett did: They JUMPED TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY!
This whole thing is unacceptable and terribly unfair. It is EXACTLY why there are multitudes of us in this Party who will NOT give $ to the KCGOP anymore. We cannot trust that our $ will go to help true Republicans. Ultimately, the kinds of the things we are seeing now will be the demise of the Republican Party in this county and this state if we don’t stop this.
You should be ashamed of yourself. You are running for re-election as County Chair this Saturday at the Islander Middle School on Mercer Island. I certainly will NOT be voting for you, and I hope that no one else will do so either. By the way, when do YOU plan to jump to the Democrats?
Karen McCall
PCO 31st Legislative District
So Kirby Wilbur thinks that Lori Sotelo is the most effective King County chair person in a generation. Can you believe this here’s a guy running for state chair in January. Gee, do we think he’s trying to suck up to Lori to get her vote? So I guess what we have running for state chair at this point are Dumb and Dumber.
Why am I reminded of that old movie THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS? It’s like the whole Exec Committee of the KCGOP are hatched from pods unloaded off the back of a truck at the I-90 I-405 interchange in the middle of the night!
As an aside, I was really surprised to learn that Chris Vance is the lobbyist for the guards of the King Country jail! Did you catch that in the recent news article lamenting all the empty beds at the jail are causing a shortfall in revenue projections and they’re considering staff cutbacks?
In the event someone is interested in the unrelated but very interesting story about the declining prisoner population and revenue shortfall of the King County Jail and what Chris Vance had to say about it, here’s the link.
KING COUNTY FACES GLUT OF JAIL SPACE
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013631611_jailpopulation09m.html
In case you never learned this as a PCO (ie: you have no idea), the Senate caucus donates that money specifically for certain candidates. The senate caucus does not just give money to the KCGOP to do as it pleases. Maybe you should do your homework, Karen.
An interesting birdie informs the awaiting grassroots, that the Attorney Genrull McKenna, of your state of Washington, was a guest at the re-org of this county today. The significance is that when the chair asked the AG a question related to the Bill of (inalienable) Rights, and the law, he did not seem to know the answer!
Or, was he confused by the simplicity of the question being asked in front of an audience of potential future voters in his potential future campaign for governor?
Or, was he in complete agreement that people or government could just make ‘un-inalienable’, the inalienable rights, and strip them at will from an individual… like a bully!
What was he asked, you ask?
Apparently a guest Republican party member had the audacity to record with her own personal camera, some of the proceedings, from her freely obtained position in the guest’s section. Someone from the previous party hierarchy, not realizing she was no longer in charge of anybody and everybody who dared to enter the public school room to observe the re-org meeting, demanded that the citizen turn off her own personal camera!
Further the bully insisted that the visitor with her own camera was not allowed to be there with her own camera, even though others in the room were properly using their own personal cameras to record whatever they wished… to their own hearts delight… when they wished to do so… whenever their own personal whim struck their own personal fancy!
Sounds like “the Bill of Rights at work”!
The lady who was understandably still under the mistaken impression that she was the boss of the new party by virture of having been a sort of boss in the previous party organization, did not seem to understand that she had no power or authority to demand anything of anybody…
… least of all the control over another persons personal property… I mean … this was not even a case of using a camera to look up the confused lady’s dress! This was only a guest, a visitor, a tourist if you will, using her own personal property in her own manner, bothering no person, and making no noise…
… in short… she was enjoying freedom in a country once known for liberty!
The confused lady, I think by the name of Tibelious (the first maybe, or the second), using her best bully tactics, demanded that another person, a Sgt. w/o arms, enforce her demands upon the guest!
The guest, quite unprepared to relinquish her property to what could possibly described as a political heist, feeling she was getting “rolled for her camera” in slow motion, asked another Sgt. w/o arms fr his protection. The latter Sgt. w/o Arms said he had heard of no such law (repealing the Bill of Rights, that is).
The commotion over the attempted heist of someone’s personal property spilled over onto the chair named Wilber, who later received a complaint from the bully who wanted a new camera. This Wilber then decided to use his wilberforce.
Now to what you were waiting for… the whole ‘faux pas’ of the AG comes into play:
It was on or about this point that the state Attorney Genrull was asked by the Chair, just as a simple and innocent request I am almost sure, since he happened to also be a guest at the event in the public school, what he thought or recommended under the circumstances.
This was an innocent enough question from even the most experienced of King County Chairs mind you. It is an area of law and Constitutional rights relatively unknown apparently that no man’s land of GOP King County, WA State… or so I have heard.
Therefore who better to ask, to come to the aid of a beleaguered chair of that county’s re-org, right in the middle of a situation of a non-existent party, faced with it’s re-creation, and without rules to tell guest citizens that they could not possess private things in that room like cameras, cell phones, pens, paper, etc….
… really… anything which might be used to record events or accurately take down statements and actions.
‘So punt’, probably thought the chair. Ask the number one man in the whole state, the AG who happened to be in the room! He was there already, to give a speech!
So, the AG apparently was asked and he gave his answer as to the validity of rights with regard to personal cameras… possessed by guests visiting the very public, though supervised meeting, being held in a public school facility, and whether the previous bosses of the party had the power to command citizens to give up their use of personal property…
one might think a really quick, no-brainer, one word answer would be forth coming…
… or more than one word if he was a person given to expletives, whose ‘yes was not just yes, and his no’s, not just no’s…’
But instead the AGrul McKenna hit the nail on the head, the bulls eye with one shotgun blast, the electorate with the perfect fence plant balance, the party bosses with his ‘cross the isle quip’…
Ostensibly it was as follows…
… they can ‘vote on it’…?!
That’s all?
Inalienable rights? …
… so strong in the State of Washington that using a camera to look up a woman’s dress is even protected as a constitutional right; private personal property so dearly sheltered in your state, a barrier and a bond between sovereign citizen owner and personal property… something only the TSA has been able thus far to break through?!
Wow… that was the faux pas of all faux news! A question with an answer made to order, but missed by a mile! The punt of all punts by a future candidate who has not even announced that he is a candidate… and the attorney general of the state to boot… he did not even recognize the Bill of Rights staring him in the face!
Maybe he did but did not care?
Maybe that county considers him the author of the Bill of Rights?
Can you believe it… here in America, the future ‘would be governor’ put the Bill of Rights up for a vote!?
And he is the top law enforcement person?
Only in King county… and this is all on tape!? :)
Today’s vote was 238 for Lori Sotelo, 93 for David Gage, and 24 for Ruth Gibbs.
This was a gigantic conquest for the status quo in the local GOP. In doing so, they utterly crucified any attempt at change.