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To: KLP who wrote (113349)	5/11/2005 3:30:18 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793926

Hi KLP, things have been going really well. Been busy as a heck travelling all over Europe solving some problems, but have finally returned home to the nice weather in Sardinia. Have a couple of weeks to relax then it's off to Spain, France and Turkey next month, might even get a chance to visit Israel. Family is great, found out last week we'll be returning to Seattle at the beginning of next year. We should have a get together, I'll bring the wine! :) I can't wait to walk under the huge trees of my neighborhood in Poulsbo and feel the light rain in the early morning again. What's up with housing prices there? I just checked our area and everything seems to have doubled in the past 3 years! Did someone tell those damn Californians about the PNW or something!!! Arghhhhh.....more Demolibs moving in probably, they are sure to ruin the place with the highest taxes in the nation before too long.

To: KLP who wrote (113349)	5/11/2005 4:12:27 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 793926

Locke makes desperate appeal to Rossi Former Gov. Gary Locke today made a desperate appeal to Dino Rossi to give up the election contest case. The timing is interesting. The trial is set to start in less than two weeks. At this point, Rossi is obviously not going to concede, especially when the call comes from a prominent Democrat. By making such an appeal, Gary Locke makes himself look more than a little bit foolish. If the case for Rossi is as hopeless as the Democrat lawyers (speaking through their official spokesman) want you to believe, why would Gary Locke bother to make a fool of himself with such a lame appeal? Why wouldn't he just wait quietly and bide his time knowing that the Republican case will self-destruct in court anyway? The only reason I can imagine that Locke would speak out now and risk looking like a dope, is if he were convinced that the Democrat case was in serious trouble and he wanted to rally his own party faithful. How would Gary Locke be in a position to know how the trial was shaping up? Curiously, he was brought on as a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, the firm which is representing the Republicans in the election contest. I suspect that Gary Locke got a peek at the case his partners' are preparing, had an "oh, shit!" moment, and felt a desperate urge to throw cold water on Dino Rossi. That's a pretty pathetic thing for Locke to do, especially since he has a fiduciary duty to all of his firm's clients, not just the ones whose politics he shares. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at 11:54 PM \| Comments (66) \| Email This soundpolitics.com