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Monday, March 20, 2006
Election 2006: Take the high road
It's good to hear GOP senatorial candidate Mike McGavick say he's going to take the high road in his campaign against incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell. Perhaps he'll set a badly needed example for his party.
McGavick, former Safeco chief executive, pledged during meetings Thursday in Washington, D.C., with senior Republicans to shun the all-too-common highly negative campaign approach.
McGavick should call the Olympia-based Speaker's Roundtable. The Republican-linked outfit drew howls of protest in January when it sent phony sex-predator notification postcards to voters saying their legislators had gone soft on sex offenders.
The group was perpetuating the same fraud last week with automated phone calls to 10,000 homes in Snohomish County, warning that a dangerous, unidentified sex offender "has been released into your community." The recordings lamented that Democratic Reps. Hans Dunshee of Snohomish and John Lovick of Mill Creek refused to vote on a bill to lock up child rapists for life.
Robert Legg and Mike Hope, Dunshee and Lovick Republican challengers, claim they had nothing to do with the phone calls. Don't expect them to do anything to stop them, either.
The reality, of course, is that Dunshee and Lovick, a Washington State Patrol officer, voted with every other member of the House, Democrat and Republican, for a bill to impose sentences of 25 years to life for many child abusers, legislation supported by cops and prosecutors across the state.
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| Does negative political campaigning work? | |
 64.0%Yes. |
34.2% No. |
| 1.8% Don't know or care. |
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| Total Votes: 272 | |
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