If I announced for this race, I could make two phone calls, and within 24 hours that amount of money would look like a joke.

— Representative Chris Hurst, to The Stranger, sneering that the more than $300,000 Suzan DelBene has raised in her campaign for WA-08 to date is insignificant. If Hurst is such a terrific fundraiser, why didn’t he bring the big bucks for Rodney Tom last cycle when Tom was competing against Darcy Burner?