Political Buzz » Ken Jacobsen http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics Talking WA politics. Mon, 20 May 2013 22:59:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Olympia will be far less interesting without Ken Jacobsen. The Nose mourns his retirement http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2010/05/17/olympia-will-be-far-less-interesting-without-ken-jacobsen/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2010/05/17/olympia-will-be-far-less-interesting-without-ken-jacobsen/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 22:45:39 +0000 Peter Callaghan http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/?p=12634 A few years back I was asked by Washington Law & Politics Magazine to name some of the smartest people I’d covered. I listed Dick Thompson, Jack Metcalf and Ken Jacobsen.

Few doubted that Thompson was brilliant in a pragmatic, getting-things-done kind of way. I’d once dubbed him the Yoda of Olympia. But I took a fair amount of grief for Metcalf and Jacobsen because both were the subject of some ridicule.

I mean the late Jack Metcalf wanted to eliminate the Federal Reserve and once demanded to be paid in coins because he doubted the authenticity of Federal Reserve …

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