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Rossi is like one of those zombies you see only in the B movies only with a twist.
Like the movie zombies who you can kill or dismember, only to have them wake back up and put themselves back together prior to coming slowly after you, Rossi is nothing if not relentless.

The Twist is that Dino has figured out that some voters are willing to suspend disbelief, much as they might at a B movie, and buy into all the BS he spew. Dino the moderate, Dino the big thinker (with only two books in his house), Dino the nice man with principals, Dino a guy you can trust, and on and on.

Moderate? When in fact, Dino is rabid pro choice, anti stem cell, an activist against teaching English as a second language, anti union, and hatefully against all of the gender based civil rights laws passed since he left office.

Big thinker? It's time to make the challenge. Name even one original Dino idea. Just one. Take your time. Nothing? Now, look at his record and study the issues of the day and how he like a leach, latches on to a few and rides them for all they are worth. This in fact is what Dino is best suited for since he has no core beliefs that drive him toward seeking public office, save for the desire to make money, he is free to reinvent his priorities, based upon polling and without restrictions. It is this "personal flexibility" that makes Dino so attractive to special interests.

Dino the nice man with principals? In Dino, we have a guy who learned treachery in the real-estate business while working for a man who pled guilty to a vast scheme to defraud elderly investors and a lending institution and was sent to jail. In stead of fleeing, Rossi helped run the operation while his boss was in jail and then followed him from company to company. And Dino's top theme in 04 was? Less government regulation. Riiight.

Dino a nice guy you can trust? Here is a guy who grew up in low income housing and has nothing but disdain for societies safety net. In fact, one of his "greatest real-estate triumphs" came about when one of the NW's premier slumlords needed a partner in order to cancel all of the leases in a predominately low income apartment complex. You see, the leases could not be broken unless the building was sold. So Dino, while chair of Senate ways and means entered a partnership with two of the states most powerful business lobbyists with the seller financing the sale, and purchased the apartment complex. Immediately thereafter all leases were canceled, the renting population was culled and the building was resold for a significant profit. Now, some might say "gee that's exactly the kind of spineless guy we want as governor" but I would disagree. A guy who seeks profit by forcing low income families to give up the stability of rent fixed for an agreed term for a month to month deal where the landlord can hike rents or evict you at any time, while the landlord, Dino, reaps his profits from his lobbyist friends and the displaces families is not governor material at all.

by Particle Man on Tue Jun 19, 2007 at 12:06:31 PM PST

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