McGavick chafes under Cantwell's 'Rose Garden' strategy
2006-10-09
Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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rss feedMike McGavick, heading down to the wire in his tough race against Sen. Maria Cantwell, is finding the Democratic incumbent an elusive target.
He uses phrases like "Rose Garden" and "recluse strategy" to describe Cantwell's above-the-fray, run-out-the-clock campaign. He trails in the polls - even before the Mark Foley scandal broke - and time is short. In just two weeks, voting by mail will be under way.
It's hard to engage the incumbent when she's largely campaigning in a bubble, relying mostly on television commercials to make her case.
"She's shifted beyond the Rose Garden approach to a recluse strategy," an increasingly frustrated McGavick says.
A skimpy debate schedule is a case in point.
The first of two debates is scheduled for Spokane on Thursday; the second is in Seattle on Oct. 17. McGavick had accepted 15 debate invitations, hoping to hit all nine congressional districts, and would have been happy with three or four televised meetings.
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