WA-08 is all the rage…

…over at The Stakeholder today, with the scoop on Rahm's rally for Darcy, Dubya's visit to Dave and such, but it was Jesse Lee's rare nod to a Senate race that really drew my eye. Citing an AP item in the Seattle P-I, he notes that...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McGavick said Tuesday he can't attend a fundraising event with President Bush next month because the date conflicts with his eldest son's high school graduation.

...McGavick said he had to turn down an overture from the White House because he is traveling to Pennsylvania for his son's June 15 graduation.

At first glance I thought that surely McGavick could make a cross town run to hook up with the President of the United States, but since the graduation is in Pennsylvania…

Hold it. Pennsylvania? There's not a single school in the state of Washington fit for the son of the would-be Senator? What special school might this be? I dunno. Here's what the McGavick campaign has to say...

...Jack, heads off to college next fall. The younger boys, Gates and Marco, and their yellow lab Frosty make the McGavick household a very lively place. Mike, Gaelynn and the boys make their home in the Seattle area.

Seems like Jack headed off a while ago, and if home is where you hang your hat, his ain't here.

Small things, sure. The small things, though, the minor evasions, the casual betrayals, the modest distortions, that add up to a man's character in the end.

The next Senator from the State of Washington will be either Maria Cantwell or Mike McGavick.

Which side are you on?