State and local Republicans are trying to capitalize on the legal woes of Democratic state senate candidate Fred Walser (D-Sultan), who pled guilty two weeks ago to misdemeanor charges of withholding evidence. Walser maintains that that the entire incident was a misunderstanding, and told the Everett Herald's Jerry Cornfield that the sentencing was, "the worst day of my life."

Still, Walser is staying in the race to unseat state Sen. Val Stevens (R-Arlington), and the Republicans are using multimedia, Cornfield reports, to try to ensure that Walser's bad day lasts until November. The state Republican caucus has created a video modeled on the cable channel VH1's celebrity show, "Best Week Ever" to mock the week in which Walser pled guilty. Then on a grassroots level, 39th Legislative District resident Chris Nandor, better known in the blogosphere as "Pudge", wrote a song to coincide with the video.

The Democrat is a long-time law enforcement officer who has been the Chief of Police of Sultan for much of the last decade. While he can take solace in the fact that his opponent will not make a campaign issue out of it, telling Cornfield, "I don't have any plan to do anything whatsoever related to it," he will not be so lucky with regard to the rest of the party.

"This man abused one public office," Washington State Republican Party Chair Luke Esser told the Herald, "and that's important information for people to be aware of when they consider if he should be elected to another public office."