Jeff Brigham

Is that this silly story about Barack Hussein Obama has been debunked for a long time.  My wife grew up in Clark County (the rural part) and it is hilarious how they can buy into such fantasy as this and pretend to not know about their legislator from Battleground and his sexual escapades.  To each his own, but I don't think it's in your best interest to parade around a sex shop in drag lingere, when you are representing one of the Conservative strongholds of the state.  Of course, he DID travel to Spokane to enjoy his pleasures in public.

Let's take a less extreme look and get closer to home.  I live in the district represented by Gary Alexander and Richard DeBolt.  It includes a section of Thurston County and all of Lewis County.  Alexander is a fine man with credentials coming out of his ears, but read up on DeBolt.  He is up for re-election this year and it will be an uphill battle for his Democratic opposition.  I considered a run as an Independent, but I think that would do damage to the Dems attempt to bring sanity and ethics to this office.

DeBolt led a tax relief bill for his employer - TransAlta.  A year later, he appeared to be missing in action, right after the election, when TransAlta fired 600 workers with nothing more than phone messages left at their homes.  Sadly, because he retains (R) after his name, people will vote against their own interests, rather than look at what this man has done for their community.

There it is, folks - fact versus fiction and the Conservative side of the Republican Party.

"The US Office of Special Counsel - the independent federal agency responsible for enforcing a law banning civil service workers from engaging in political activism while performing their official duties - has launched investigations of two employees at one agency and one employee at another agency. All three are believed to have forwarded the erroneous chain e-mail about Obama from their government e-mail accounts.

Doing so would be a violation of the Hatch Act, a 1939 law designed to help protect career government employees and the government workforce from the influence of partisan politics. The act bans civil servants from taking "any active part" in political campaigns while on the job."

Story here.

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The article even mentions our Clark County GOP website!

...search suggestions at the bottom of the page:

...does that mean it's the most searched for? Is upper left the number one position?

According to a Poltico story published in October 13, 2007:

"..."barack obama muslim” is the third most popular Google search for the presidential candidate's name,

behind “barack obama” and “barack obama biography,” according to Google Suggest, which tracks the frequency of word searches."

Story here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1007/6314.html

...Is that now the number-one search?

A lot of the links go to pages debunking this heinous lie, thankfully. But one clicked on was terrible!

Here's a link to the bad one (scroll down): http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover031006.htm

Anyway, this stuff is just terrible. That's all.

"Fourteen percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly think he is Muslim, according to a survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center. Just over half of each group correctly identified him as Christian, while about a third said they don't know his religion." - Story here.