Rossi Must Earn Trust

July 16, 3:01 PMSnohomish County Progressive ExaminerChad Shue

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And so we turn to the rematch between Christine Gregoire and Dino Rossi. I will begin by saying that, while Gregoire was not my first (or second) choice for the nomination in 2004, she was certainly my choice over Rossi in November of that year. This year my choice is even clearer.

“New to the table, Senate Republicans would cut more than 40,000 children off Medicaid health coverage for the poor to stave off some other human services cuts that Locke proposed, said Sammamish Sen. Dino Rossi, budget writer for the upper chamber.”

"We've found that voters know GOP means Republican."

“Dino Rossi's rebranding effort may pay off with voters who say they don't know what it means when a candidate declares himself a member of the "GOP Party." That's what Rossi used when he filed for office, saying that it is an insult to voters to suggest that they don't know the initials for Grand Old Party, an old Republican nickname.

A recent poll by Stuart Elway says that about 25 percent of respondents didn't know what GOP meant…” “…And it will come as no surprise that of those who said they didn't know, or got it wrong, the biggest chunk, 27 percent, describe themselves as independent. That's where the greatest benefit of rebranding could come for a Republican trying to buck a 24-year gubernatorial losing streak for the party.”