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Wednesday, September 8, 2004
Cowardly campaigning
We wonder how King County Sheriff Dave Reichert managed to keep a straight face complaining about "dirty politics" in his congressional primary race, when his own campaign consultant is up to his elbows in mud slinging in the attorney general race.
Bruce Boram, Republican Reichert's campaign consultant, is also director of the Voters Education Committee. The committee is bankrolling television ads attacking Deborah Senn's tenure as state insurance commissioner. It's no coincidence that Senn is one of two Democrats vying for state attorney general in next week's primary election.
Questioned by P-I Capitol correspondent Chris McGann, Boram made the brazenly disingenuous claim that buying hundreds of thousands of dollars in attack ads within 10 days of the primary "has nothing to do with the election."
It's a dodge -- a way to avoid reporting expenditures and contributors to the state Public Disclosure Commission. "This is just trying to highlight an issue," Boram said. "... It's not political."
Horsefeathers.
While we endorsed neither Senn nor Reichert in this election, no one should endorse such unseemly behavior. The PDC should employ all its powers to force full disclosure from the Voters Education Committee. If it lacks such power, the Legislature's first order of business should be to provide it.
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