Updated to add a link to the video. 

I have made no particular secret of my recent disappointment with Sen Maria Cantwell, and her actions revolving around the minimum wage bill.

But she is not the only race in town, so it behooves me to be concerned about some of the other candidates.

One of the races that has been discussed a lot is the 8th Congressional District where the incumbent is first term Dave Reichert, who has been challenged by Darcy Burner.

Darcy is somewhat of an enigma.  She has gotten a lot of negative press from local bloggers, and rabid unwavering support from others.  In the partisan world of Seattle politics this is not a shock, I suppose.

So I have tried to keep a fairly open mind about her.

Today her first TV ad aired, and Goldy at Horsesass had it up for display on his page.

See it at Darcy’s site:  http://www.darcyburner.com/video/burnerbio.wmv

I watched it earlier and was a but concerned by one section of it.

Let me preface this by saying that my military roots are showing her, because the military is at the core of my disgruntlement.

Having said that, let’s look at what made the grumpy blogger grumpy.

Her commercial opens with a biographical montage, with a voice over describe the essential elements.  It also has captions that display a reference to the voice over.  To demonstrate, I have some screen caps:

So the ad seems clear enough, voice over with captions to punctuate the main points.

So when the video opens with the this image: