Demos put up a phony McKenna for Governor web site

Seattle Times Politics NW blog:

How worried are state Democrats about Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna running for governor in 2012?

They're already testing out some anti-McKenna attacks on a Web site: www.robmckennaforgovernor.com

This was flagged for me in an e-mail from Steve Lawson, an Issaquah social media & communications consultant, who stumbled across the site Wednesday and blogged about it here. (Also check out Lawson's cool video biography.)

The anti-McKenna Web site has been registered to the state Democratic Party since last June.

That's shortly after McKenna hired Randy Pepple, a long-time Republican political consultant, as his chief of staff, a move ripped by Democrats as an overt sign McKenna was positioning himself to run for governor in 2012.

The Democrats' Web site gives a pretty good indication of how they'll attack McKenna if he does run. It paints him as an anti-transit, hypocritical, self-promoter who also happens to be a closet ultraconservative.

"They are afraid," said state Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser. "Good for Rob that they're concerned that he would be a very formidable candidate for governor."

"We're just getting ready for him to run for governor," said Washington State Democratic Party Chairman Dwight Pelz. "I think McKenna has had a steady track record of turning the AG's office into sort of a press release mill to take on the popular issue of the day."

We see that Havana Dwight confessed.