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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Both are established cogs in the big machine. A vote for either is a vote for the status quo. Unfortunately, that's what we're left with.
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Apparently Rossi only has his past State Senate gig.
per wikipedia
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State Senate tenure
In 1992, Rossi ran for a Washington State Senate seat in a district representing suburbs east of Seattle, Washington in the Cascade foothills. After winning a divisive Republican Party primary, he lost the general election. In 1996, Rossi ran again for the State Senate and was elected.
Rossi served in the Washington State Senate from 1997 until December 2003, when he resigned to spend full time running for governor.[10] During his time as senator, he gained a reputation for being a political consensus builder with a proven ability to build bipartisan coalitions.[11] When the Senate Republicans gained the majority in 2002, Rossi became chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee that writes the state’s two year operating budget. It was in this position that Rossi was widely credited for closing a $2.7 billion budget deficit without raising taxes.[12] He passed this budget with bipartisan support,[13] gaining praise from members of both parties, including the ranking Democrat on the budget committee. The budget chief for Democratic Governor Gary Locke said of Rossi in 2003, “The really good legislators move from one side to the other really effortlessly, and I think Dino did that.”[11]
Rossi sponsored a number of bills as a state senator prior to his role as chair of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, including the Two Strikes bill that puts child molesters away for life after a second conviction.[14] In 1998, he sponsored the Mary Johnsen Act,[15] named for a Sammamish resident who was killed by a drunk driver. The bill required ignition interlock devices for certain convicted drunk drivers in the state of Washington. Rossi received the national finalist award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving for his work. He also sponsored the Dane Rempfer bill[16] that boosted penalties for those who left the scene of a fatal accident, named after a 15 year old boy from his district who was killed in a hit-and-run. It was his work on the 2003 budget that spurred others to recruit Rossi to run for governor.[17]
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Not exactly
a cog in the machine . . . being that he hasn't been in
the machine for quite a while. ...and that he obviously defunded some BLOAT
Personally, I'm getting the idea that Rossi is too smart to
really want the job. --unlike most egotistical politicians running. . .in tennis shoes.
