Reply #60: Cantwell, Murray

[Citizen Worker]

I suspect that Cantwell and Murray voted the way they did because of the demise of the Seattle Post Intelligencer and the fact that William Blethen, publisher of the Seattle Times, has been a very vocal advocate of repeal of the so called "death tax."

Murray, the mom in tennis shoes, is up for re-election in 2010 and Blethen would endorse her opponent, whoever that might be, had she not voted the way she did.

As for Cantwell I'm not surprised at her vote. The only reason she's in the senate is that she ran for office at the behest of the former state democratic party chair who had a personal vendetta against Deborah Senn, the odds on favorite, and she could finance her own campaign. As I recall Cantwell spent $10 million of her personal funds to buy the election of 2002.