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November 8, 2010 in Region
Challenger Wiggins pulls closer to Justice Sanders
OLYMPIA — Challenger Charlie Wiggins is cutting into Justice Richard Sanders’ lead in the contest for a state Supreme Court seat.
Sanders is leading by about 4,200 votes out of more than 1.7 million cast after this evening’s early vote-counts.
Sanders had been leading by about 13,000. Wiggins is being helped by a big majority in King County, which says it still has about 130,000 votes to count.
Sanders has been preparing to challenge ballots that were rejected for mismatched signatures or other problems. In an e-mail to supporters, his campaign asks for money to help finance the effort.
State law mandates a re-count if the result is within 2,000 votes and one-half of 1 percent.
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misjustice on November 08 at 7:05 p.m.
Exciting!
cpd805 on November 08 at 7:23 p.m.
It is exciting. Sanders needs to go.
zelda on November 08 at 7:38 p.m.
My nail-biten fingers are crossed for Wiggins.
Al_Loysius on November 08 at 8:33 p.m.
Sanders never met a defendant or sex offender for whom he could not find an excuse to go free. He is no conservative except for private property issues. He is so libertarian he ends up voting with the liberals on criminal cases. He was probably half-snockered when he loudly called AG Mukasey a “tyrant” at a formal judicial dinner last year, because he wants to give Guantanamo detainees traditional trials.
Bruce (aka thatoneguy) on November 10 at 10:34 a.m.
Long (and a little bit self-congratulatory) article from the [shamelessly liberal] alternative newspaper in Seattle: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/11/10/how-justice-richard-b-sanders-lost-it#more
…which in turn has a link to this earlier article in the same paper, which addresses his “multiple simultaneous girlfriends” issue.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/high-court-hypocrite/Content?oid=5062389