Dino Rossi - Not So Innocent

See! See! I told you so! Dino Rossi's "Forward Washington"/stealth-campaign isn't ethical. The PDC voted 3 to 2 to dismiss the complaint but they were unanimous in saying that Rossi was exploiting a loophole to get around our campaign laws.

December 06, 2007
The PDC vote on Rossi non-profit raises more questions

Posted by David Postman at 04:47 PM

The Public Disclosure Commission voted 3-2 today to dismiss a complaint against Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi that alleged he had used his non-profit foundation as a way to campaign without having to disclose his donors. But that doesn't mean the commissioners were convinced it wasn't an attempt by Rossi to dodge campaign laws. PDC executive director Vicki Rippie told me that even those commissioners that voted to dismiss worry about a loophole in the law that allowed Rossi to conduct political activity with the non-profit Forward Washington Foundation.

"There's concern on the part of all commissioners that the statute as written does not address all of the political activity that is taking place today ... with Forward Washington. ... None of them were totally comfortable with the activity that occurred."

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