Rossi Won't Seek Senate Seat in Wash.

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Washington-Senate.html

July 15, 2005
Rossi Won't Seek Senate Seat in Wash.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:52 p.m. ET

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Dino Rossi, the businessman who lost last year's governor's race by a historically thin margin and failed to overturn it in a court challenge, announced Friday that he won't run for U.S. Senate next year.

In a letter, Rossi said he was flattered to be considered as a challenger to Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell. But he said he didn't want to disrupt his family and is focusing on working to better the state.

[jefferson_dem]

1. Good news. Though i think Cantwell would have won comfortably,

it's now in the solid-safe category.

[Cha]

2. And maybe he lost some

credibility by going on a little too long?

[Parche]

3. rossi

martini and rossi on the rocks

He is a whiner, and didnt "lose" gratiously

And they talk about Gore

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. .....is focusing on working to better the state?

He can start by coming out against Intiative 912. I-912 would roll back the gas tax and delay repairs on the state's slowly crumbling transportation infrastructure.

I'm not holding my breath. Something tells me he'll be non-committal on the initiative.

[pnwbi]

5. Good

Let him lick his wounds a lot longer :-) Not that he could have taken Cantwell's seat anyway.

[mom cat]

9. Welcome to DU pnwbi! I agree aBout his chances against Cantwell.

:hi:

[VegasWolf]

6. Reminds me of a dog licking its hind legs. nt

[loudsue]

7. Or just it's hind

:kick::kick::kick:

[not fooled]

8. Gee, so being governor...

...WOULDN'T have disrupted his family???

So I am sure he would have been sorry if he had won the governorship.

:eyes:

[TheWatcher]

10. I Know one thing Rossi could do right now to better The State

Besides leaving.

Get Over It!

[sleipnir]

11. Finally, I knew this was coming.

He's a good man in that respect. He values his family and doesn't want them to become poisoned by the DC atmosphere, just his own.

[WhiteTara]

12. he just doesn't want to experience

another crushing defeat. He knows that he is unwanted in Washington.