Letters to the editor -- July 12

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• Published July 12, 2008

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NASA has also worked on hybrid power, teaming with U.S. auto companies, but there has been zero application of this technology potential by a U.S. car manufacturer as far as I have observed at the pump.

Jim Johnson, Olympia

Gregoire’s campaign based on hypocrisy

Recently in a news conference, Gov. Chris Gregoire had the following to say: “We have hit rock bottom in this campaign, and it is only June.” She went on to say, “I call on my Republican opponent Dino Rossi to denounce the BIAW and these ads and instead run a campaign focused on good policy and the issues.”

Well, a week later Gov. Gregoire launched her own attack ad against Dino Rossi.

It would appear to me that Gov. Gregoire is being a bit hypocritical if she can launch an attack ad a week after she demands that Dino Rossi denounce the BIAW attack ad against her.

Yet; that is not the only story I see here.

Gov. Gregoire stated that she wants both parties to run on “a campaign focused on good policy and issues.” Here are my questions to Gov. Gregoire: How is it good policy to accept money from tribal gambling to pay for the 2004 recounts and then reach a gambling compact that eliminates any type of revenue sharing?

How is it good policy to receive third-party PAC help from a PAC (Evergreen Progress PAC) in which one of the biggest contributing members (who donated $545,000 from SEIU) you are currently negotiating pay and benefits contracts?

It appears to me that to Gov. Gregoire, conflicts of interest and hypocrisy are going to be part of her quid pro quo campaign.

Matthew Fritch, Yelm (currently in Iraq)

Learn a lesson from Tumwater Hill mistake

The view from our state capitol to the north should be unimpeded by high buildings. That view should allow a visitor to scan to the north across the physiographic features to the horizon with continuity — from the intertidal zone to the sound and glaciated Puget lowland to the Olympic Mountains. It’s a matter of visual and geographic/geologic context, linking the place, the center of Washington’s government, with the landscape and geologic setting.