When retired Air Force Special Service member Harvey Brooks came back from Vietnam, he made one promise to his sons.
“I said I will do everything in my power to make sure you don’t go to war.”
“I failed,” Brooks said.
One of his sons served in Desert storm and his other son recently left for Iraq.
Brooks and […]

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It ended today at South Seattle Community College, the final stop of the tour.
As she exited the bus, Gregoire patted me on the hand and said, “Last one kiddo.” Irrelevant to the story, but I thought it was cool.
Highlights of the speech included not kicking kids off health care, the importance of weening ourselves off […]

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At the end of Gov. Christine Gregoire’s kick-off bus tour, we’ll have travelled 1,000 miles, driver Gene said. Right now we’re in Everett. I’m sitting on a small platform in the back of Labor Temple with couple Chris and Gorm Lauritzen. Gregoire will take the stage shortly, but in the meantime, I learned about an […]

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“We’re here for Dino Rossi,” a woman said outside of Gov. Christine Gregoire’s Port Townsend speech.
The women described themselves as “three old broads” from the area’s Republican Party.
Gregoire waved and smiled at them as she entered The Public House, a day-time coffee, night-time bar restaurant (later she stopped to say hello).
“She looked great in her […]

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This is my vacation, said Harvey Brooks, a Vietnam Veteran and former Air Force Special Service. Brooks was one of the few Gregoire supporters on the bus from the very beginning.

Learn more about Brooks and his buddy Lloyd Burroughs later today.

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Not many people know more about sign babysitting than Bill Jemkins.
Jemkins sat next to me on the bus from Tacoma to Vancouver and the first thing I noticed was his Teamsters International Brotherhood jacket and his Barack Obama pin. He’s been working with campaigns for the last 14 years, for politicians such as Senators Marie […]

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An estimated 250 people- on a weekday- turned up at Gregoire’s Spokane speech at the Washington State University south facility, 30 minutes ago.
“What’s all this out of control spending Dino Rossi is talking about?” Senator Chris Marr said in part of his introduction. “I could have asked him myself if he would have bothered to […]

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“Do you notice how she’s always drawn to the children?” Tracy Prazo of the State Association of Electrical Workers asked. Her face was inches from the bus window, as she peered down at Gov. Christine Gregoire walking toward a small group of longshoremen.
Behind the governor was a 120-foot-long wind turbine blade passing through the Port […]

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What does a governor do when she craves a hamburger?
She detours and high-fives the bus riders, is what.
Today Gov. Christine Gregoire stopped the 08′ campaign bus at Miner Burger in Yakima, the last fast food restaurant in America with tater tots on the menu. Puzzled customers swallowed their meals and rose to greet Gregoire as […]

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Many of the same themes were mentioned today in Gov. Christine Gregoire’s Yakima speech- Washington ranked 5th in Forbes Magazine’s best state to do business, her mother’s hard-work attitude, first-man Mike’s work with veterans- with one apparent difference.
She didn’t make any references to Republican Dino Rossi.
Yesterday at the Firefighter’s Hall in Vancouver, Gregoire said to […]

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