Hutchinson throws her loony hat into the ring

Susan Hutchison, closet Republican and official loony bin resident, has officially filed to run for King County Executive. Here’s her campaign website. Remember Erica C. Barnett’s piece on Hutchison? In case you need a refresher:

But don’t let Hutchison’s nonpartisan pretenses fool you. She’s a partisan Republican with a long history of working for and donating to right-wing causes.

Hutchison has given thousands of dollars to Republican candidates (including anti-choice nut job Mike Huckabee), she has served as a board member for the creationist Discovery Institute, she almost ran for state senate as a Republican in 2005, and she delivered a Bible-thumping speech at this year’s Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in which she sneered at “activist atheists” and evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins for “believing they can get by just fine” without Jesus.

Contrary to what “evolutionists” like Dawkins believe, Hutchison told prayer-breakfast attendees earlier this year, “God created the magnificent universe and the world we see and the glorious beauty around us… Christ himself is the creator who made everything in heaven and earth.”

It’s one thing to believe in God (as plenty of public officials, including outgoing county executive Ron Sims, do); it’s quite another to advocate the teaching of religion in science classes and to condemn scientists for being scientists.