This election year is getting ugly

I am back after several months because I have been rather busy the last several months, and I am getting very frustrated with the current election year political tactics. Therefore, I want to let some of my thoughts known.

The race that is really getting me the most frustrated right now is the Washington State Governor's Race between Congressman Jay Inslee and the Attorney General Rob McKenna.

This race is so ugly now since the Seattle Times newspaper has made some very poor choices in judgment.

For example, they publish an article just a week and a half before Election Day and after ballots have already been mailed out that makes Rob McKenna out to be a frequent traveler on the job going to places such as Disneyland during his days as Attorney General. Jay Inslee, who has already aired many misleading ads about McKenna during this campaign, quickly used the article in his new commercials with The Seattle Times logo making this look like a very negative fact about McKenna.

Why is it so bad about The Seattle Times running this article?

First, the article is a little biased favoring Inslee by making McKenna the main subject of the article.

Second, McKenna does not get a chance to debate this with his opponent on live TV before the election.

Third, it is too close to the actual election.

Fourth, this information was made available by McKenna a long time ago as it was public disclosure information.

and let me bring up a fifth reason that most people are not aware of:

Fifth, McKenna's daughters are now being used to make their own Dad look bad.

How is the fifth reason possible? Well it goes back to that Disneyland trip. It was actually for a conference that was a legitimate trip attended by other Attorney Generals from other nearby states.

What has happened is that one of his daughters happened to go to Disneyland with their Dad and innocently posted a Twitter picture taken at the amusement park.

Well someone against the McKenna campaign found this and are now using this as proof that McKenna was maybe abusing public money.

I find these types of political attacks offensive. Children shouldn't be used to discredit their political parent. With attacks like these, it is no wonder why there is a shortage of good politicians, both Democrat and Republican.

As for whether or not McKenna went to Disneyland funded by taxpayers, maybe he did, but even if you want to assume he did, why is going on a vacation with your family such a negative thing?

Would you have rather seen that money go towards something else such as his pension fund or more TV campaign ads that are already too frequently airing right now?

I didn't think so.

Even though there may have been some bad tactics used by McKenna's camp in this campaign, my vote is still for Rob McKenna. Sorry Jay Inslee, you lost my vote due to your rather misleading ads and your supporters dirty tactics which are way worse than your opponent McKenna's campaign.