Bellevue 911: Pleas for Help Go Unanswered as Stalker Shoots Rob McKenna Video

Drama! Suspense! Action! None of those three words describe the recently released 911 tapes from last week's frightening incident in which a Democratic tracker viciously threatened Attorney General Rob McKenna with a video camera.

911: And is he making any threats or being uncooperative other than refusing to leave? Event Organizer: Umm we told him he could stay if he shut off his camera but he’s refusing to shut off his camera, he’s not making any threats or anything like that. 911: Okay. So otherwise he's being cooperative? Event Organizer: He's also disrupting our private meeting. 911: Okay. Like invitation only? Event Organizer: Um, it's a club meeting. We've rented the space. Um, it's not a public meeting. It's open to anybody who is willing to follow the rules.

The tension is palpable! Or, you know... not.

And that's pretty much how the conversations go. Three times the organizers call 911 over the course of a half hour—first to request an officer, and then to ask where he is—and three times the 911 operator responds in the same non plussed manner. "We try to operate within a one hour time frame," the operator explains during the second call, "sometimes it even goes a little bit longer. But, um... is the subject still there?"

More than an hour to respond to a 911 call? Was the delay due to Republican-policy-induced budget cutbacks? Or is the apparent lack of urgency displayed by emergency responders simply due to the fact that this wasn't an emergency?

I spoke with Washington State Democrats communications director Reesa Kossoff, and she didn't indicate that the party was likely to stop sending video trackers to McKenna's gubernatorial campaign events anytime soon. So the question for our state's top law enforcement officer is this: Are you going to continue to encourage your fellow Republicans to waste precious emergency services with frivolous 911 calls? Or are you going to man up and finally allow your campaign rhetoric to be caught on video?