September 1, 2010 1:18 pm
Christina Romer, in her final speech as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, called on Wednesday for new tax cuts and government spending to boost the economy.
Romer defended the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus bill, initially estimated at $787 billion and later revised to $814 billion, as contributing to a “dramatic” turnaround in the [...]
August 30, 2010 11:10 am
Another great round of submissions to photos@dinorossi.com with your Dino Rossi signs around the state. Be sure to send your photos in so we can highlight them next week!
Ronnie Valencia from Spokane sends in this photo from the Spokane Republican headquarters.
Derek says: “The good news is that I’m stuck in bumper to bumper traffic for [...]
August 27, 2010 10:49 am
Most of us already suspected it, now Mort Zuckerman in U.S. News and World Report confirms it: the economic policy Sen. Patty Murray has pushed through Congress has been “fiscally irresponsible.”.
“People see the stimulus, fashioned and passed by Congress in such a hurry, as a metaphor for wasted money,” he writes. “They are highly [...]
August 26, 2010 12:59 pm
Red County writes on Patty Murray’s hand-in-hand relationship with the unions as opposed to representing the farmers of Washington state.
Yet, under Murray’s layer of unremarkable platitudes on international trade lies the reality of a newly sparked trade war with Mexico and its effect on the world-renowned fruit growers and farmers in Eastern Washington. Dollars and [...]
August 26, 2010 10:37 am
Recently Intel CEO Paul Ortellini shared his frustrations with colleagues over the Obama administration’s policies harming growth of the tech industry. As Washington state is home to several tech industry jobs from Microsoft, Amazon, Real Networks, Nintendo and many others, Washington state should be as concerned as Oregon is about their Intel CEO’s remarks.
Otellini’s remarks [...]
August 25, 2010 10:49 am
Remember when the White House, Sen. Murray and others in Congress were pushing the health care “reform” bill? They said “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
Well, for up to 3.7 million seniors, that promise may soon be broken.
The Associated Press reports that “More than 3 million seniors may have to switch [...]
August 23, 2010 10:06 am
During a visit to the Tri-Cities Dino met with several business leaders and discussed key issues and the impact of Senator Murray and Washington D.C.’s policies have had hurting job growth.
“The No. 1 issue for most folks is jobs and the economy, feeding the kids and keeping a roof over their heads,” Rossi said. “What [...]
August 20, 2010 3:16 pm
This week we had some great submissions to photos@dinorossi.com with some of your photos of Dino Rossi signs around the state. Be sure to send your photos in so we can highlight them next week!
Pablo Monroy sends in his photo, just getting ready to put the ballot in the mail box.
Matthew Boyd sends in this [...]
August 20, 2010 3:12 pm
“Today’s news on the economy has been nothing but awful.” So says an economist on the news that more workers are losing their jobs.
Sen. Murray seems to think the key to economic recovery is to keep spending taxpayer dollars on bailouts and “stimulus” bills. But the more she spends, the worse the economy gets. Click [...]
August 19, 2010 3:20 pm
John Fund at the Wall Street Journal has a great article taking a look at the results from Tuesday’s primary here in Washington State:
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state is in danger of losing her seat in November.
The Evergreen State holds a so-called jungle primary in which all candidates are listed on one ballot [...]