Good evening, everyone.
Well now, what a hectic week, no? I’ve been working nights all three days this week. Tomorrow and Friday, I’ll be on vacation in Idaho spending time with my family for my birthday and for my wife’s baby shower.
There may very well be a few tidbits that might get posted here … like upcoming Herald endorsements. I’ll read the paper each morning to see if any come out. I’ll also check my e-mail perhaps once a day just to see if there’s something to post to feed your need.
Other than that, the blog will be dormant until I’m back on Monday. For now, I go to prepare for the Bill Mize Forum tonight.
Enjoy your Wednesday evening.
July 28th, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Have a great weekend, Sam.
July 28th, 2010 at 4:56 PM
Enjoy your family time!
July 28th, 2010 at 9:18 PM
This slightly right-of-center grumpy guy says “Congratulations, and Happy Birthday.”
July 28th, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Have a nice time in Idaho. And happy birthday Sam!
July 28th, 2010 at 10:39 PM
Happy Birthday Sam!
The rattles and stuffed animals from the baby shower are not your birthday presents.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Enjoy your vacation time with family and friends! That is the true purpose of the summer season and have a happy birthday along the way (no I won’t sing).
July 29th, 2010 at 6:16 AM
Happy anniversary of your birth, Sam Taylor!
July 29th, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Happy vacation, B-day and Baby Shower!
July 29th, 2010 at 7:32 AM
Happy bday!
It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
Safe travels!!!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
July 29th, 2010 at 7:51 AM
Happy Birthday, Sam. Enjoy the crack-of-dawn rendition of ‘Birthday’ by the Beatles. Have a fun baby shower, too.
Also, congrats to Jean Melious on getting the Herald’s endorsement, and to the Herald EB for their well-explained rationale for doing so.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:58 AM
Me mayor too bad they can’t be “right” all of the time!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
July 29th, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Is this what the Taylor household sounds like on birthday morning? Have a great weekend and congrats and good wishes to you and yours Sam…..M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glNjsOHiBYs
July 29th, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Enjoy the Inland NW, Sam.
July 29th, 2010 at 2:05 PM
*Breaking* Clint Didier and Paul Akers to make an “Important Joint Special Announcement” tonight at 7:00 pm. Will one drop out? Will both drop out? Info at either candidate website.
July 29th, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Have a great time, and happy birthday, Sam!
July 29th, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Hey Trixi, thanks for the update. Heard it from you first. I had trouble listening online via BlogTalkRadio.com and am too cheap for the long distance phone call. Were you able to listen live online?
July 29th, 2010 at 6:49 PM
I *think* I found the right link here. Just started for those interested - http://www.blogtalkradio.com/squareonemedia/2010/07/30/call-in-for-mr-didier
July 29th, 2010 at 7:05 PM
There were technical difficulties so things are just getting started. Problems seem to be worked out now. 15 minutes remaining in online call. Waiting for the candidates to come on. Apparently it’s online only now. System crashed - possibly due to too many callers.
July 29th, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Dang it. I got interrupted and thought I could “pause” the call - apparently not. It sounds like the just of it is that no one is backing out, instead Didier and Akers are going to start running joint ads expressing their concern that the “establishment” is trying to pick the Senatorial candidate and they believe that they (the establishment) should back off and let the people decide.
That’s what I took away from the short duration I was able to listen too.
Paul and Clint mentioned that they are friends and that they think this might be the first time two candidates for the same race will run joint political ads.
July 29th, 2010 at 9:47 PM
These guys have about as much chance beating Murray as they did doing their techno bust announcement….
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2012485476_technicalproblemsatdidierakers.html
And once the voters get to know Dino again, it will be Deja
Vu..
… and a lot of spent tea bags
July 30th, 2010 at 7:09 AM
Thanks, Bellinghammer! I didn’t get to listen last night, so appreciate coming on Sam’s blog and getting an immediate update. With three choices between the party, I have to agree with Shaun, they’re doomed.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:40 PM
I attended the Bill Mize forum and found it very useful. There were many well-grounded candidates on “both sides”. Something, though, that I found a bit puzzling was how Dusty Gulleson has the chutzpah to run for the 40th LD representative position 1.
There are already two excellent conservative candidates (Mike Newman and Chuck Carrell), each of whom has an impressive record of volunteer community service. Mr. Gulleson, by contrast, moved here only 2 years ago, has voted here only twice, and has zero- nada! -record of community service here in the 40th LD. Do we think so poorly of our own candidates that we need to import an unknown? (There is a word for this- think synonym for “rug”.) Mr. Gulleson’s website waxes about his family roots two generations ago in Washington, but his own life until very recently was in Virginia, and his business continues to be in Virginia. Hard to see how he’d be very intimately familiar with our issues.
Are we so backward that we need people to step off the plane and lead us? I will admit that “Dusty” speaks more like a Powerpoint presentation than either of our homegrown candidates on the R side, but is that really important? Either Mr. Carrel or Mr. Newman have much more credible roots here.
Just wondering.
Abe Jacobson
40th LD, B’ham
July 31st, 2010 at 12:49 PM
I found Overstreets answers to the Herald’s Zoe Fraley today to be pathetically shallow.
He might have a nice family and his kids have some names they’ll end up hating their parents for and changing later in life, but we don’t need a nice family; we need a straight talking adult with substance and Oversteet is clearly not that yet.
August 2nd, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Latte has an interesting article on the controversy of a stage photo showing Overstreet wearing fire fighting gear…
http://whatcomforum.blogspot.com/2010/08/overstreet-ignores-questions-about.html
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:05 AM
… but … but …
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:17 AM
You were already playing with them weren’t you…….