I attended the kick off breakfast for Sam Reed's re-election for the position of Secretary of State for the State of Washington.  Knowing Sam on a personal level, I take pride in supporting him.  He was the lone Republican on my voting ballot in 2004.

My real intent for this blog is to not raise the flag in honor of Sam, but to point out that St. Martins was full of people from BOTH sides of the isle.  I came in thinking I'd be the token Democrat only to find that probably at least 40% of the audience were people that I know and share similar political views.  It was a non-partisan event in the truest sense of the word.

Mike McGavick, a fairly conservative Republican admitted that many of the hard Right were unhappy with the outcome of the Governor's race and felt that Sam's party affiliation should have swayed the results.  It will be interesting to see if there is a GOP that will possibly surface for a primary run at Sam.

Jeff Kingsbury made an inspirational introductory speech before Sam took the podium.  Nothing more be said.

I just wanted to share that in these times of the "great divide" there stands at least one man that is able to reach to both sides of the political spectrum and either reason or lay down the law, as needed.

One of the speakers pointed out that during the arguments being presented by the Democrats and the Republicans during the Governor's race recounts, David Horsey, well known political cartoonist, was published depicting Sam as the teacher and the respective state political party chairs as the students, with the caption "This is "WASHINGTON".  Note that there is no "D" and no "R" in the word "WASHINGTON".

Thanks to Sam and his campaign for a great start to my day.