{"id":581992,"date":"2010-05-27T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011968005_dinorossiintherunningforsenateseat.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:53:00","slug":"dino-rossi-in-the-running-for-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581992","title":{"rendered":"Dino Rossi in the running for Senate seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We need Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>This is a response to \u201cSources: Rossi\u2019s in, will make it official Wednesday\u201d [page one, May 25].<\/p>\n<p>A high tide brings in a lot of things, and some of it does not smell very good.<\/p>\n<p>Washington state voters have twice rejected Dino Rossi, and should do it again.<\/p>\n<p>His own Republican neighbors rejected him when he first ran for state Senate in 1992, too. Back then, all three of his Republican opponents refused to endorse him after the primary, leading to his defeat that year.<\/p>\n<p>They knew then what a growing number of voters know now: Rossi is too cozy with the kinds of questionable corporate power brokers who nearly destroyed our economy.<\/p>\n<p>I served three terms as a Republican county councilman representing the area that Rossi calls home. I have never endorsed him, either. His right-wing brand of politics is too extreme for Washington state voters.<\/p>\n<p>We need to reclaim our country and reclaim our prosperity by charting a new course. That course would create new jobs in new industries that pollute less, use fewer resources and make products that last.<\/p>\n<p>We need to get control of our government budgets by enforcing the discipline of frugality and paying as we go with taxes that are fairer to working families. We need to confront powerful interests that threaten to destroy our democratic republic.<\/p>\n<p>A vote for Dino Rossi is a vote backward into a negative and dangerous past. This time, regardless of your party affiliation, vote for Sen. Patty Murray. She has earned a reputation for hard work and integrity, and we really need that right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Brian Derdowski, King County Council member 1990-2000, Issaquah<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need Murray Editor, The Times: This is a response to \u201cSources: Rossi\u2019s in, will make it official Wednesday\u201d [page one, May 25]. A high tide brings in a lot of things, and some of it does not smell very good. Washington state voters have twice rejected Dino Rossi, and should do it again. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}