Reward your friends

Jimmy at McCranium catches an item from Chris Mulick's Olympia Dispatch about Rep. Maureen Walsh (R-College Place.) Walsh had the decency to object to the GOP's fake sex offender postcard last year. One of the targets of the postcards was her Democratic seat-mate in the 16th District, Bill Grant.

It turns out her criticism may have helped her lose one committee assignment and gain another. When House Republicans doled out assignments last month, Walsh found she was no longer their ranking member on the Children and Family Services Committee.

"It was rather disappointing to see that," Walsh said.

But she won't go without. In a rare move, House Democrats named her vice-chairwoman of the Early Learning and Children's Services Committee.

Ah, the memories. That sure worked out well for the GOP, didn't it?

That was an ugly story to cover. Sadly, Vanguard is no more, but I'm still here and so are the Internet Tubes. Here's to a 2007 session free from the Rovian efforts of the Speaker's Rountable (we hope.) And why aren't they called "The Minority Roundtable?"