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Rossi Releases Latest TV Ad. Democrats Have Aneurysm. And a Point.
The Patty Murray campaign and the Washington State Democrats turned their amps up to 11 today in response to Dino Rossi's latest TV ad in which the GOP challenger says "Our economic problems didn't start yesterday, they've been building for years. Some wanted to ignore them, but I've been telling you the truth."
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSN8y7OV5pI&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Rossi goes on to say we have to reduce the debt and stop earmarks.
Cue the Democratic aneurysm.
The twin Democratic press releases blare:
The Democrats' point obviously: Duh, "our economic problems [have] been building for years" —since the Bush years to be exact, they say, referring to the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans, which could save $630 billion over 10 years if they were repealed.
In her statement, Murray campaign spokeswoman Julie Edwards says, "[with] his support for tax policies that would squeeze the middle class and benefit the very wealthy, Dino Rossi is promising to return to the policies of George W. Bush."
And WSDP spokeswoman Sadie Weiner added:
"Dino points out that the economic crisis has been building for years, but he fails to mention that the foundation of the recession is built on policies that he endorsed and actively pushed. This is a feeble attempt to rewrite history and shift focus away from the fact that Dino’s ‘plan’ for the economy is nothing more than a big rewind button."
The other thing that drives the Democrats bonkers is Rossi's slam on earmarks. (Earmarks, by the way, make up about 1 percent of the federal budget.)
As PubliCola first reported when Rossi first started condemning earmarks: As a state senator in 2003 Rossi, then the ways and means chair, ushered through a budget that included $25 million in earmarks, and in 2007 he benefited from an earmark when the Auquasox, a team he co-owned, received state earmark money for a stadium.
Rossi spokeswoman Jennifer Morris laughs at the so-called hypocrisy of Rossi's earmark record, pointing to an AP article that "debunks" Rossi's role in scoring earmarks because the earmarks weren't part of Rossi's general fund budget, but rather, part of the capital construction budget.
Cue Democratic aneurysm #2—or at least this video from a guberanatorial debate in 2004 when Rossi explicitly takes credit for ushering through the capital budget.
Go to the 2:10 mark, where Rossi says: "We did have capacity in the captial budget because I was also in charge of that. With the capital budget I spearheaded the Booth Gardner/Dan Evans higher ed construction bill..."
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LUfUoUk2k[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSN8y7OV5pI&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Rossi goes on to say we have to reduce the debt and stop earmarks.
Cue the Democratic aneurysm.
The twin Democratic press releases blare:
DINO’S NEW AD SOLIDIFIES HIM AS A HYPOCRITE
Rossi’s version of history skips over his explicit endorsement of Bush agenda and his earmark habit
and
FACT CHECK: New Rossi Ad Ignores History, Rossi Record
Rossi Would Take America Back to Same Policies that Caused Economic Collapse
The Democrats' point obviously: Duh, "our economic problems [have] been building for years" —since the Bush years to be exact, they say, referring to the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans, which could save $630 billion over 10 years if they were repealed.
In her statement, Murray campaign spokeswoman Julie Edwards says, "[with] his support for tax policies that would squeeze the middle class and benefit the very wealthy, Dino Rossi is promising to return to the policies of George W. Bush."
And WSDP spokeswoman Sadie Weiner added:
"Dino points out that the economic crisis has been building for years, but he fails to mention that the foundation of the recession is built on policies that he endorsed and actively pushed. This is a feeble attempt to rewrite history and shift focus away from the fact that Dino’s ‘plan’ for the economy is nothing more than a big rewind button."
The other thing that drives the Democrats bonkers is Rossi's slam on earmarks. (Earmarks, by the way, make up about 1 percent of the federal budget.)
As PubliCola first reported when Rossi first started condemning earmarks: As a state senator in 2003 Rossi, then the ways and means chair, ushered through a budget that included $25 million in earmarks, and in 2007 he benefited from an earmark when the Auquasox, a team he co-owned, received state earmark money for a stadium.
Rossi spokeswoman Jennifer Morris laughs at the so-called hypocrisy of Rossi's earmark record, pointing to an AP article that "debunks" Rossi's role in scoring earmarks because the earmarks weren't part of Rossi's general fund budget, but rather, part of the capital construction budget.
Cue Democratic aneurysm #2—or at least this video from a guberanatorial debate in 2004 when Rossi explicitly takes credit for ushering through the capital budget.
Go to the 2:10 mark, where Rossi says: "We did have capacity in the captial budget because I was also in charge of that. With the capital budget I spearheaded the Booth Gardner/Dan Evans higher ed construction bill..."
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1LUfUoUk2k[/youtube]
