Berendt Joins Dotzauer's Firm

Bumped into former Scoop Jackson-Maria Cantwell-Booth Gardner campaign chief/Snohomish County quarterhorse aficionado Ron Dotzauer (pictured) this morning in Belltown. Dressed stunningly in a white cowboy hat, dress shirt, and boots, Dotz was picking up his dry cleaning near the Battery Street tunnel. We had about a 10-minute conversation, wherein he discussed the state of his Westlake public affairs consultancy, Strategies 360 (formerly Northwest Strategies), whose roster of talent includes the aforementioned ex-Gov. Gardner. He then mentioned his firm's most recent hire: ex-State Democratic Party Chair Paul Berendt, before slamming Mike (!) McGavick as "a wolf in sheep's clothing" and driving off in a dark-colored hybrid automobile.