Okay, I’ve met the guy a couple of times, I have friends who have worked at all levels in his campaigns, and before now I thought he was the perfect guy to represent Whatcom County, but what is Rick Larson doing voting to repeal the estate tax?

Is it that he simply dosen’t care about our trillion dollar deficit, our crumbling transportation infrastructure, or our failing schools? Is it that he thinks multi-millionaires need a break?

Or could it be that Rick wants to score points with people like Frank Blethen, the patriarch of the family that controls the Seattle Times, who hates the estate tax? (Speculation is that the reason the Seattle Time endorsed George Bush back in 2000 was due to Blethen's opposition to the estate tax.)