Have the dealers lobbying for this legislation demonstrated an ability to service Tesla or other EVs in sufficient volume, across the entirety of the state (or at all), subsequent to this restriction going into force?

As soon as I noticed the release I went to try it out. I threw together a Thunderbird RPM based on the binary distribution for ease of management. I put up some instructions based on the work of another writer a few years back, figuring it might be elpful to others, but there is truth to the earlier point about how many early adopters of just-released email clients there really are. It seems to me that the early adopters are technically knowledgeable enough to put together whatever packaging they'd like, and newer users of Fedora or any other RPM based linux distribution would be unlikely to install non-repo based RPMs regardless. In any case, they're out there, and to give gredit where credit is due, Thomas Chung did great work with initial versions of the spec file.

--CTH

No, the governor doesn't appoint judges, they get elected in this state. They do, of course, sign bills, appoint directors of state agencies, and are involved in the state budget negotiations. As I said elsewhere, Olympia is uniquely dependent on state goverment, so that is a major consideration for me.

Dino Rossi is, at least, the most electable candidate for Governor that the Republican Party has put forward in many years. I have to give them credit for figuring that out finally.

We'll just have to wait and see how things go after the primary -- then the MADNESS BEGINS.