seattletimes.nwsource.com - 10/30/2008
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THE deposition of Dino Rossi was a farce. For four hours in Seattle Tuesday, two pro-Democratic lawyers took turns jabbing the Republican candidate for governor with questions mostly irrelevant to the legal matter for which he was required to be there. The supposed issue was what Rossi had said ...
seattletimes.nwsource.com - 10/28/2008
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seattletimes.nwsource.com —
Dino Rossi must testify under oath before next
Tuesday's election about his alleged role in illegal campaign...
coordination with the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW), which could take precious time and attention away from his campaign.
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Rossi must testify in BIAW suit before election
horsesass.org - 10/28/2008
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horsesass.org —
King County Superior Court Judge Paris Kallas ruled
today that Dino Rossi has to testify in the...
lawsuit filed by two former Washington State Supreme Court justices alleging that he illegally coordinated with the BIAW to raise money for his election ...
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Judge Rules Rossi Must Be Deposed Before Election
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"Farce": Part I
Sound Politics —
... ." Anyone with a basic understanding of the supposed legal justification for the deposition could tell as much reading through the text of the plantiffs' lawyers badgering Rossi with a host of unrelated questions to score political points. The Seattle Times editorial page lays it out in tomorrow's paper: THE deposition of Dino Rossi was a farce. For four hours in Seattle Tuesday, two pro-Democratic lawyers took turns jabbing the Republican candidate for governor with questions mostly irrelevant to the legal matter for which he was required to be there. The supposed issue ...
Fair and balanced
HorsesAss.Org —
... Why? I’m a “partisan blogger” I was told, while he is a legitimate member of the press. You can read the Times’ totally, nonpartisan, impartial, objective, fair and balanced editorial here. ...
“Blogging is the new journalism”
HorsesAss.Org —
... of a previous post, the Times op/ed page is opinion, and as such “is not bound to be evenhanded”… and I’d argue that yesterday’s Rossi apologia certainly wasn’t. That was the sort of partisan editorial the Rossi campaign wanted and expected from the Times, and that is the sort of partisan editorial Ramsey delivered. There is this convenient fiction that journalistic partisanship is a vice unique to the blogs, and that it inherently diminishes our credibility, but in this particular race it is fair to suggest that ...
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