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From Wall Street Journal:
Rossi catching up in polls, the left is unleashing the dirty tricks.
Activist trial lawyer Knoll Lowney (promoter of social justice) is part of the liberal elite in Washington, in with green activists, labor outfits, and Democrats.
Lowney is one of the actors behind Washington's initiative 1098, which this fall will seek to impose an income tax on the state's most productive earners.
His attack against Rossi concerns the Building Industry Association of Washington (BIAW), a trade group. BIAW is counter to Washington's labor and environmental groups; and it supports free-market candidates like Rossi for office.
Most offensive to liberals was when Mr. Rossi in a blue state nearly won the 2004 gubernatorial election against Christine Gregoire. When a 2008 rematch became likely, Democrats quickly started attacking Mr. Rossi's character. That didn't work so well so they looked for a lawyer like Lowney.
He filed a lawsuit in 2007, whining that BIAW was inappropriately using workers-comp money to fund political campaigns. He wanted the judge to immediately bar the BIAW from accessing money it might use for Mr. Rossi's campaign. The judge denied that request.
In September 2008, Mr. Lowney was mad and immediately filed another suit against BIAW, this time claiming Mr. Rossi and the trade group had improperly colluded on campaign activity.
On this suspicion, Lowney convinced a judge to allow him to depose Mr. Rossi—eight days before the 2008 election. When Mr. Rossi, calm in knowing he did nothing wrong, arrived at the deposition, there was a swarm of cameras waiting. The scene created doubt in voters' minds.
The Lowney team said the timing was necessary because it needed the deposition immediately so it could file for "emergency" injunctive relief. However, they never did file for emergency injunctive relief. After Mr. Rossi lost, the lawsuit disappeared. Even the Seattle Times was moved to editorialize that the Lowney deposition was a "farce" and "baldly political."
'Now, some 21 months later, and only after Mr. Rossi declared for the Senate (you gotta give credit to the persistence of Rossi), Mr. Lowney has rediscovered his case. Lowney sent a process server with a subpoena, not to the proper representative of Mr. Rossi's former gubernatorial campaign but to Mr. Rossi's personal home—twice—the week before the August Senate primary. This subpoena, demanding yet more documents—from 2008 and 2004—comes despite the fact that the state campaign agency, the Public Disclosure Commission, conducted an exhaustive investigation into the Rossi allegations, and in March of this year fully exonerated the Senate candidate.'
Will Washington's judicial system again be abused for politics? The judge overseeing Mr. Lowney's resurrected suit is Mike Heavey, a former Democratic state senator who was appointed to the court by former Gov. Gary Locke (now President Obama's secretary of commerce). Judge Heavey's brother-in-law was once the president of the state's largest labor organization.
-In a telephone conversation yesterday, Mr. Lowney took issue with headlines declaring Mr. Rossi "exonerated" by the state commission, saying the body instead "didn't have the information to prosecute."
-As for the timing, he says he was waiting for the government to conclude its investigation. (The commission cleared Mr. Rossi in March.) Mr. Lowney said this is "not a campaign issue, it's a prosecution," and moreover that he didn't think it was "appropriate" to be "litigating it in the press." (He would if facts were on his side.)
BIAW Executive Vice President Tom McCabe says, "This is all about using the legal process as a means to attack a political opponent." The Rossi campaign referred me to Mr. Rossi's lawyer's recent response to the court, which objects to the subpoena as an "improper, politically-motivated effort to employ the Court system for political purposes."
To his credit, Judge Heavey has pushed the court date — which had originally been set for the first day of November — to after the election. There is no telling what Mr. Lowney will ask for in the meantime.'
2004 election against Gregoire: "After a hard fought election, Rossi was certified governor-elect, winning by just 261 votes."......
"Gregoire requested recount after recount after recount until they found a way to count the votes in her favor. In King County it was revealed election officials used a “ballot-on-demand” printing machine to create ballots. Washington State was also sued for failing to mail out absentee ballots to military personnel from the state serving overseas. Eventually, after enough shenanigans that looked much like the Al Franken mess in Minnesota, Gregoire was deemed elected by a 133-vote margin." Click here for story. Rumor on 2004 election: Former "Gov. Gary Locke organized the election takeaway," said Washington State Democratic party leader in a meeting with Darcy Burner.
'After he won by 261 votes there was a recount and he won by 42 votes, the Secretary of State certified him the winner. But according to Washington law either party can request one additional recount, for a total of three counts, as long as they pay for it. While the third count was being conducted uncounted ballots were “found” in King County – a Democratic stronghold so Christine Gregoire won by ten votes. Then a judge allowed yet another batch of “found” King County ballots and her lead grew to 129 votes. Most believe the Democrats stole the election from Rossi.'
"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends...
that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." -- Adlai Stevenson (1952)
Washington State Impolite, click here. "Patty Murray's claims are so outrageous they call for investigation. Washington State voters have to decide if they like Patty Murray lying to them."
The truth needle, click here. "The ad shows Rossi at the interview and says he was asked, "Should Boeing workers have a level playing field?" The ad then shows him replying, "No, not as far as I'm concerned. No."Patty Murray's recycled video, click here. "The real rub is that this adds to a climate of unethical behavior that has been hanging over Murray’s campaign like a noxious cloud, one the kowtowing mainstream press seems not too eager to wander into."
Patty Murray bogus ads, click here. "It’s clear Senator Murray is resorting to desperate misleading attacks because she’s scared. Dino Rossi is a fiscal conservative who will bring commonsense leadership to the U.S. Senate and always vote in the best interest of Washingtonians here in Washington State… not the residents of Washington, D.C.. But producing an ad that falsely attacks him while highlighting her own flawed record won’t help this D.C. insider get another 6 years in D.C."
Fact checking Democrats, click here. "You would think that when Washington’s major newspapers unite to condemn Patty Murray’s dishonest ad campaign against Dino Rossi that it would dissuade her and her D.C. cronies from launching more false attacks. Apparently Patty Murray has decided that the only way she can convince voters to let her keep spending their money is to flood them with lies and distortions and hope they don’t find out the truth before Election Day."
Click here for 'Can Dino Rossi finally win a Washington state election?'
VOT3R news, Dino Rossi, click here.
"Dino Rossi, a leader who listens." "Patty Murray, the Stupidest person in America" (Ann Coulter)
"When I was growing up, the big fear in my life was the nuclear war. I remember second- and third-grade teachers giving us skills to deal with it, if that big alarm goes off, which was 'Hide under your desk.' Would that do any good? I don't know. But as a child, that gives you a feeling there's something to do beyond panic. Today the biggest fear our kids live with is whether ... the kid beside them has a gun. We have to give them skills so they feel confident to deal with it." From Patty Murray
'Rossi charges that “record deficits, high unemployment, and massive debt are the result of Senator Murray’s 18 years in Washington.” He’s also been hammering Murray for bringing special help to the state through earmarks. She was No. 12 on the top 20 list of earmarkers, according to the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.'
Negative, misleading Murray ad: one on international business where she claims Rossi is sending jobs overseas. What is really happening is that he supports foreign tax credits which make sure our companies aren't double taxed and put at a disadvantage.
But Rossi was never asked the words shown in the ad. A videotape of the interview shows his answer actually was in response to a convoluted exchange about whether government subsidies to Boeing and its chief competitor should be considered when awarding the contract."
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