Dino Rossi Talks About Voting Race

On October 22^nd Rossi appears on Fox News for their “Campaign Flash” segment they do. Greta Van Susteren, the interviewer, mentions that Murray has already refused to come on the segment several times. But state Senator Rossi is interviewed about the race for the Senate seat.

First off she mentions a Seattle Times newspaper headline “Illegal Immigrants Canvassing for Votes” where these illegal immigrants were campaigning for Rossi’s opponent, Murray. She points out how they were unashamed to announce themselves as illegally living in the United States and asks for Rossi’s opinion on them siding for Murray.

Rossi replies by saying that “we’re both just running our own campaign” and explains how he traveled from little town to little town from Seattle to New York knocking on people’s doors to talk to them about his stands and introduce himself.

Susteren says that President Obama has shown up to assist Senator Murray even and asks Rossi why he thinks the race is so close.

Rossi explains that it’s hard because he is trying to dethrone an eighteen-year incumbent who has stayed under the radar. A lot of people didn’t know that she had been so long as Senator and were surprised to hear that she was the deciding vote in favor of the Health Care Bill and the balance amendment of 1995. She also is ranked the most Liberal Senator in Washington D.C. by the non-Partisan National Journal. He says that as people are finding this out “we see more and more people coming to our side.”

Sustern asks Rossi if there’s some platform of the Democratic party that he agrees with and if there’s any platform of the Republican party that he disagrees with.

Rossi says that one thing he did while state Senator during the great deficit was to cross party lines to balance the budget without raising taxes. This is how people from his state know him: as a man who can do what others say can’t be done. He worked among Democrats but still did what he believed was the best thing.

Sustern asks him about how he feels of the No Compromise of the Health Care Bill stated by Congressmen.

Rossi says that you shouldn’t compromise your principles; he never compromised what was right while balancing the budget deficit and doing it, as he jokes, “without throwing widows and orphans under the bus.” He says that he does things without caring if he gets reelected because he was happy before going into politics, so he figured he would be happy after being in politics too. He says that there are bigger issues to deal with than worrying just about reelections.

Sustern asks Rossi if he gets elected, at the end of his Senate occupation, if he could choose one thing for people to remember him by what would it be?

Rossi, plain and simple, says “that I did what I said I was going to do.” As a closing word he states that if we like how things are going then vote for Murray because she’ll be sure to give us six more years of the same. But if we want a new direction and to get entrepreneurs back to work, vote for him.

I think that Rossi has a very good honest quality about him. He seems like he really wants to point the United States in the right direction with a new Health Care Bill and won’t sway from what he believes is right, which is a very admirable quality. He cares about what happens to the United States more than just a reelection campaign. I almost feel like he is relaxed about being elected because whatever should happen will happen, like he trusts us to make the “right decision” by voting for him.

-Info from Fox News.

Murray is currently at 49.0 and Rossi is 46.8

-Info from Real Clear Politics.