State senate candidate Reedy protests ‘not qualified’ rating and blasts Municipal League
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
By Evan Smith
Republican 32nd District state senate candidate Robert Reedy has protested the King County Municipal League’s rating of him as "not qualified" and has questioned the League’s claim to be a non-partisan organization
As reported here recently the League, in ratings announced July 2, gave Democratic 32nd Legislative District senate challenger Chris Eggen its second highest rating, “very good,' while giving incumbent Democratic State Sen. Maralyn Chase its third highest rating, “good.”
The district includes Lynnwood, Woodway and nearby unincorporated areas of southwest Snohomish County, and parts of Edmonds and Mountlake Terrace, in addition to Shoreline and part of northwest Seattle in King County.
Reedy, who is challenging Chase and Eggen in the Aug. 5 primary, blasted the League after its candidate evaluation committee gave him the “not qualified” rating and noted that he had not completed a candidate questionnaire or appeared for an interview.
“I will never go in front of them," Reedy said last week. “I find them uneducated, sophomoric, rude and a bunch of full-of-themselves punks.
“My statement to the voting public is ‘If you vote the way the Municipal League tells or orders you to vote, you will not only get bad government, you will deserve it.’
“In the past they have tried to put forth that all of my college education is via ‘diploma mill.’ I suggest when they grow up they should try college; I know that would be hard for people who already know everything there is to know.”
Reedy said Monday that he had attended Edmonds Community College and Central Washington University and that he held master’s and doctoral degrees from a university in California, one that he wouldn’t name.
“They are from a college in California, but I am too smart to give my enemies ammunition to use as lies, he said. “If they are so much smarter than I am let them think it through. The politically correct will, once they find the college president is a black man, call him an ‘Uncle Tom' rather than admit they were wrong."
Chase is seeking a second four-year term in the State Senate after serving nine years in the State House of Representatives. Eggen is in his second four-year term on the Shoreline City Council.
League officials said that they had been unable to contact either Chase or Reedy and that neither had completed the League’s questionnaire.
A League spokeswoman said July 3 that these notations came after at least five attempts to contact each candidate.
The spokeswoman said, however, that the volunteer raters were able to make judgments based on Chase’s performance in office and Reedy’s recent campaigns for other offices.
The Municipal League says that its ratings attempt to answer the question: How well might a candidate do the job?
Reedy disagreed Saturday with the League’s claim to be non-partisan, saying, “They always endorse the female, liberal Democrat.”
The League says that its process is similar to a job interview – with a diverse group of citizens serving as hiring managers. The League says that it acts as a “Better Business Bureau” for voters.
Reedy, Chase and Eggen will appear at a candidate forum Thursday at 7pm at the Richmond Beach Congregational Church in Shoreline.
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6 comments:
Reedy has a point, the Muni League doesn't fact check a sinle thing nor do they do any background checks (which is what a hiring manager would do). In 2009 the Muni League had to withdraw their rating for a Shoreline City Council candidate because of how poorly their process is conducted.
Reedy is right, he could have diligently filled out the forms and gone through the ML interview, but he would have gotten the same rating. All decisions are made by the back room ruled by chosen leaders of The Democratic Party. The fair minded people who volunteer their time are being used as cover, but they still manage to fill their rosters with new and still ignorant folks who care.
The candidate most likely to oppose the income tax and work to balance the state budget without new taxes and accounting tricks would be Reedy. He doesn't have to be a genius to vote for a healthy state economy by keeping government off the backs of business.
I loved the bit about the secret college.
That strategy is just crazy enough to work LOL.
As a former Republican Muni League Candidate Evaluating Committee member they tried to fire me for not going along with most of the rest of them on several decisions but did not so as to retain a semblance of impartially however my views were not entered in the final report.
I have no knowledge of the workings of the King County Municipal League or their system for classifying candidates. I do however have first-hand knowledge of Mr. Reedy. In 2009 I was his supervisor during the address verification portion of the United States Census done by the U. S. Census Bureau. Later, when I noticed he was running for local offices, I researched his educational qualifications and the university from which he says he received his Master's and Doctorate. After doing this research, and from personal knowledge of his work, I must say that I concur with the assessment and classification of Mr. Reedy by the King County Municipal League.
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