State Republicans would like to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution - but only as it applies to people with dark skin. Their party platform adopted on Saturday opposes the automatic citizenship granted by the Constitution to any child born in the United States.
"Only somebody as dumb as Gregoire would endorse it."
- Dr. Matt Manweller, a political science professor at Central Washington University, during a confrontation with Democratic Party volunteers who were protesting against Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi's opposition to the state's current minimum wage policy, which increases the wage level with inflation every year.