As a member of the Democratic Party, I am appalled by Gov. Chris Gregiore’s legislative proposal to enact sobriety checkpoints. This is settled case law. Sobriety checkpoints are unconstitutional and for her to even talk of amending the state Constitution to institute them is a red flag for Democrats and Republicans to take a hard look at her tenure as governor.
Is she trying to not get re-elected? I encourage my fellow Democratic Party members to reconsider her as a candidate for governor. I propose we field a better candidate. Gregoire has been a disappointment on so many levels. She is the kind of Democrat that brings a bad name to the Democratic Party. Three years into her term and she just now takes a look at the state ferry system after being forced to by the U.S. Coast Guard. Three years into her term and she has taken no bold steps to ease our transportation problems except to propose tolls and a failed transportation tax package that fixed nothing, taxed us to the brink and provided little for mass transit. Three years into her term and she diverts millions of dollars into a rainy day fund when it’s a monsoon (literally) and this money is needed elsewhere.
No, we do not need to provoke a constitutional fight to institute costly sobriety checkpoints. It’s cheap political stunt which the voters will see right through.
Anthony Vicari
Democratic PCO, Everett No. 7 Everett
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