Looksl ike Gregoire can rest easy now:
A judge in this conservative area of Eastern Washington on Monday rejected claims by Republicans that fraud and illegal votes wrongly put a Democrat, Christine Gregoire, in the governor’s office, and in response the Republican candidate, Dino Rossi, said he would end his five-month legal effort to remove her.
Mr. Rossi’s decision came as a surprise because his lawyers had long said they would appeal to the state’s Supreme Court if they lost. A spokeswoman for Mr. Rossi attributed his decision to the forcefulness of the ruling, issued by Judge John E. Bridges of Chelan Country Superior Court.
An appeal “just wasn’t going to be possible, and it was time to end it,” said the spokeswoman, Mary Lane.
You have to just love the write-up: “judge in this conservative area of Eastern Washington.” As opposed to the liberal area everywhere else?