Morning Fizz
"There are Saints and Sinners"
1. As we noted in yesterday's Fizz
, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dino Rossi held a fancy fundraiser in D.C. on Tuesday. While it was fodder for his Democratic opponent U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (whose camp pointed out that Rossi's hosts were the very same GOP Senators who, just the day before, voted against Murray's motion to provide benefits to veterans), it was also red meat for Rossi's Tea Party opponent, Clint Didier.
"While he's in D.C. picking up special interest checks at a private club, the Didier campaign is holding a grassroots, online fundraiser with the help of all of our grassroots support," Didier spokeswoman Kathryn Serkes scoffed.
Didier himself, Serkes said, held a "money bomb" yesterday—a 24-hour online fundraiser.
As for the Rossi fundraiser, Fizz hears only five or six of the ten senators who were supposed to be on hand for the $1000 to $500-a-head event showed up and that Rossi himself left after a half hour.
We'll find out soon enough how much the Rossi event and the competing Didier event raised—quarterly campaign finance reports are due at the Federal Elections Commission in the next few days.
2. In more Rossi news, Democrats are asking what the GOP candidate meant when—explaining his strategy of going after Independent voters— he told the National Journal yesterday : "There are saints and sinners and those who can be saved. The saints are with us, the sinners are not. And the ones that can be saved are the ones we will be talking to."
Who's he calling a "sinner?" Democratic spokeswoman Anne Martens wanted to know.
3. Supporters of 23-year-old Burien land commissioner Joe Fitzgibbon are snickering at the latest email from one of his two Democratic opponents, campaign-finance reformer Marcee Stone, which crows that "the establishment is running scared" of her campaign. The Stone email states:
Fitzgibbon's proponents point out, the "big players" in "the establishment" supporting their guy include grassroots activist groups like Fuse, the Washington Bus, and the Sierra Club. (Stone's endorsements include the 34th District Democrats, the King County Democrats, and the King County Labor Council).
4. U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell finally had her meeting with President Obama yesterday to pitch her "Cap & Dividend" bill. (The meeting was canceled last week because Obama had to deal with the McChrystal crisis.)
Cantwell's bill is an alternative to the standard "Cap and Trade" bill that passed the House last year that is now being pushed by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman on the senate side. Cantwell's option, co-sponsored with GOP Sen. Susan Collins, would give U.S. households 75 percent of the government revenue from the sale of carbon credits to fossil fuel producers (about $1,100 a year to consumers).
5. Josh is speaking on a CityClub panel this afternoon at 5:30—along with Seattle Times Executive Editor David Boardman, PI General Manager Pat Balles, and Investigate West Execuive Director and Editor Rita Hibbard—about the changing media landscape and new online models for journalism.
"While he's in D.C. picking up special interest checks at a private club, the Didier campaign is holding a grassroots, online fundraiser with the help of all of our grassroots support," Didier spokeswoman Kathryn Serkes scoffed.
Didier himself, Serkes said, held a "money bomb" yesterday—a 24-hour online fundraiser.
As for the Rossi fundraiser, Fizz hears only five or six of the ten senators who were supposed to be on hand for the $1000 to $500-a-head event showed up and that Rossi himself left after a half hour.
We'll find out soon enough how much the Rossi event and the competing Didier event raised—quarterly campaign finance reports are due at the Federal Elections Commission in the next few days.
2. In more Rossi news, Democrats are asking what the GOP candidate meant when—explaining his strategy of going after Independent voters— he told the National Journal yesterday : "There are saints and sinners and those who can be saved. The saints are with us, the sinners are not. And the ones that can be saved are the ones we will be talking to."
Who's he calling a "sinner?" Democratic spokeswoman Anne Martens wanted to know.
3. Supporters of 23-year-old Burien land commissioner Joe Fitzgibbon are snickering at the latest email from one of his two Democratic opponents, campaign-finance reformer Marcee Stone, which crows that "the establishment is running scared" of her campaign. The Stone email states:
"The big players in Olympia are scared of the idea that they won’t be able to buy my vote, they are scared that if I win, more ordinary people are going to challenge the status quo, they are scared that public campaign financing will catch on, and they are scared that they will have less power and influence in Olympia."
Fitzgibbon's proponents point out, the "big players" in "the establishment" supporting their guy include grassroots activist groups like Fuse, the Washington Bus, and the Sierra Club. (Stone's endorsements include the 34th District Democrats, the King County Democrats, and the King County Labor Council).
4. U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell finally had her meeting with President Obama yesterday to pitch her "Cap & Dividend" bill. (The meeting was canceled last week because Obama had to deal with the McChrystal crisis.)
Cantwell's bill is an alternative to the standard "Cap and Trade" bill that passed the House last year that is now being pushed by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman on the senate side. Cantwell's option, co-sponsored with GOP Sen. Susan Collins, would give U.S. households 75 percent of the government revenue from the sale of carbon credits to fossil fuel producers (about $1,100 a year to consumers).
5. Josh is speaking on a CityClub panel this afternoon at 5:30—along with Seattle Times Executive Editor David Boardman, PI General Manager Pat Balles, and Investigate West Execuive Director and Editor Rita Hibbard—about the changing media landscape and new online models for journalism.
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