So, what do the numbers in the 3rd Congressional mean?

Well, we've seen all the numbers in the 3rd in the fund raising race, and there were no real surprises.

Heck is vacuuming out most of the leftist money; after all, money attracts money, and writing yourself a quarter million dollar check to start, while really odd for a job that doesn't pay all that much net that such an expenditure would be worth it to anyone except those possessed of the biggest ego, is something of a money magnet.

But adding $300,000 to that figure is very impressive indeed.

As I've pointed out, Pridemore's candidacy is a joke, and he's spinning his wheels in ways that just astound. His many fringe left, hypocritical bouts (The voting for a budget he'd condemned as being balanced on the backs of the "poor and the powerless;" his corruption in cutting his buddy, Steve "I can be bought if the price is right" Stuart a sweet deal on campaign finance; his rabid support of the union welfare project known as the I-5 Bridge /loot rail project that most in the region hate, and his unbridled desire to stick a $1300 per year toll down our throats will make him the laughing stock) combined with an almost pathetic inability to raise money, even when he portrays himself as Obama light, will make him the answer to a political trivia question 10 years from now... but it won't make him a congressman.

On the right, the likely eventual winner had a respectable quarter and as time goes on and more people discover how slimy his main opponent in the GOP really is, we can expect her money to dry up even more, and his money to start rolling in.

David Castillo has run a solid campaign and will continue to do so. And while the special interests who own SEIU Representative Jaime Herrera have tossed a few bones her way, as more and more find out about how very little background, education, vision and independence that slimeball has, they'll desert her in droves.

She touts her $140,000, provided by Cathy McMorris Rogers, her keeper and boss through her contacts, as some big accomplishment. Considering how much time she spent off the floor fund raising instead of being on the floor representing US, and considering the horrifically stupid idea of ditching us during session so she could make a fund raiser with the special interests who already own her in Washington DC, this is a HORRIFIC number... less than half of the cash donated to the democrat who will be in the general, Denny Heck.

The others running on the right are fine, quality people. I've listened to Castillo and David Hedrick, who championed the cause of the people against Cowardman Brian Baird last August. Castillo's qualifications far exceed anyone else running in the 3rd, but Hedrick isn't far behind and I hope that this doesn't represent his only foray into politics.

Ultimately, I believe this will become a Heck-Castillo showdown, and it's the wrong year for the democrats.

Herrera's abysmal fund raising has to hurt: the anointed one's lack of performance is puzzling.

Given all the time that Herrera spent off the floor fund raising while others voted for her... and ditching us, her constituents, so she could make a fundraiser in DC set up by her keepers, Slade and McMorris, she has GOT to be upset about her massive under-performance in fund-raising.

Only $140 K? You kidding me?

3.5 months in, spoon-fed essentially unlimited pre-greased contacts (do you think anyone would have given her a dime if they hadn't been leaned on by McMorris and Gorton first?) hours off the floor during session while others voted in her place to make it look like she was actually there... and THIS was the best she could do?

The only effort more pathetic was Craig Pridemore. But the SEIU bling hanging around Herrera's neck, along with her moronic tax and spend vote to strip out $229 million from the the emergency fund have doomed her candidacy and made her a political dead man walking, thank God. This November, she'll be out of politics altogether, and she can go back to bringing McMorris her coffee or whatever it is she did back there.

Ridgefield Barbie couldn't even send out a press release without scamming a quote from her keeper in it. And that is pathetic for the "independent voice" that will represent McMorris instead of us in Congress.

Craig is, of course, a political dead man walking. No one wants or will vote for a fringe leftist in the 3rd, and only his delusional fellow fringers seem to think he has a chance. But so far, his almost retarded effort at fund raising shows that he's not even in the ball park.

Best known for voting for a budget he had condemned for being "balanced on the backs of the poor and the powerless, Pridemore has also gerrymandered a tax district to pay for his unwanted and unneeded loot rail; demands that the families of the 65,000 or so commuters suffer as a result of the tolls he wants to impose, while demanding that loot rail be jammed down our throats: and cut Steve "Easy money, Mr. Barnett" Stuart a sweet deal so Stuart could keep 10's of thousands in campaign donations.

Both Pridemore and Herrera voted to rip off the state emergency fund as well, showing once again that Herrera has more in common with Pridemore than she does us.