These are listed in general order of the importance I think they deserve. As a senior citizen now, and with a lifetime of deep involvement in politics (not deep, but I even shook hands with JFK) I have had one lesson drilled into my mind. Choosing who to vote for is always relative. We have two choices and we may not like either - but we need to make an intelligent choice that gives us the best possible future. Often it is the lessor of two lousy choices. Voting is not a time to make a protest or show how angry we are. It is a moment to make a sane and intelligent decision for the future. So - here is my advice to those who ascribe any value to it.

US Senate - vote for Maria Cantwell. Return her to the Senate. To my liberal and anti-Iraq war friends, especially - vote for Maria. While she has fence sat on the war and we may want to show our anger to her, we would be doing the dumbest thing we could if we allowed the Republicans to keep control of the Senate. If we dislike the war then we must do all we can to return Congress - House and Senate - to a Democratic majority control. Anything short of that and our loved America will sink further into a morass of war, terror, fear, loss of civil rights and all the other evils that the corrupt and criminal Bush administration is oppressing us with. Vote for Maria. Urge your anti-war friends to vote for her. On all other issues, she has represented us well - and even conservatives value her service.

State Initiative 933 - vote NO. Gawd - the developer's permanent wealth machine. How to steal America. Dupe the citizens into voting away their rights, their money and their land. Poof - just like that. Oregon passed this a few years ago and are reaping a nightmare of absurd lawsuits and horrible projects. The backers of this say that while there is some problem wording in the initiative, it is a good law. Problem wording?? Bull. The wording was carefully crafted to screw the common citizens out of their money and land. The Seattle Times millionaire family is backing this and their newspaper is not to be trusted on what it says about this. Liberal or conservative in your politics, this is a very bad bill.

US House Representative from the 2nd District. Vote for Rick Larsen. Same reasoning here as for Maria. He has fence sat the Iraq war issue, but we need the Democratic majority in the House. Rick is an empty suit who drives around the district with multiple sets of suits and casual clothes so he can change at each stop and look like he belongs there. He pays more attention to polls than to the needs of his district. Roulstone is a viable candidate who - in another time - might make a good representative. He is intelligent and experienced in life. BUT - we as a country must get a Democratic party majority into the House of Representatives - and so we must vote for Rick Larsen if we want sanity to return to our country. I urge my liberal readers to please - swallow hard and vote for Rick. Hold your nose, but vote for him.