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Al Rosenthal
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Republican Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Manhattan College, 1977

Personal
Birthplace
New York, N.Y.
Religion
Christian
Profession
Aerospace engineer
Contact

Campaign website

Al Rosenthal (Republican Party) ran for election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 41-Position 2. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Rosenthal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Rosenthal was born in New York, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College in the Bronx in 1977. His career experience includes working as a commercial property owner and manager and as an aerospace engineer.[1][2]

Elections

2024

See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2

Incumbent My-Linh Thai defeated Al Rosenthal in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai (D)
 
65.7
 
49,577
Image of Al Rosenthal
Al Rosenthal (R) Candidate Connection
 
34.2
 
25,821
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
72

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 75,470
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2

Incumbent My-Linh Thai and Al Rosenthal defeated Pamela Randolph in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai (D)
 
68.6
 
26,509
✔
Image of Al Rosenthal
Al Rosenthal (R) Candidate Connection
 
18.5
 
7,157
Image of Pamela Randolph
Pamela Randolph (R) Candidate Connection
 
12.8
 
4,938
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
40

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 38,644
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Campaign finance

Endorsements

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Pledges

Rosenthal signed the following pledges.

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2022

See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2

Incumbent My-Linh Thai defeated Al Rosenthal in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai (D)
 
68.4
 
43,512
Image of Al Rosenthal
Al Rosenthal (R) Candidate Connection
 
31.5
 
20,016
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
61

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 63,589
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2

Incumbent My-Linh Thai and Al Rosenthal defeated Elle Nguyen in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai (D)
 
69.4
 
26,270
✔
Image of Al Rosenthal
Al Rosenthal (R) Candidate Connection
 
22.4
 
8,479
Image of Elle Nguyen
Elle Nguyen (R) Candidate Connection
 
8.1
 
3,067
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
60

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 37,876
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2020

See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2

Incumbent My-Linh Thai defeated Al Rosenthal in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai (D)
 
66.6
 
55,609
Image of Al Rosenthal
Al Rosenthal (R) Candidate Connection
 
33.3
 
27,808
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
54

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 83,471
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Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2

Incumbent My-Linh Thai and Al Rosenthal defeated Harlan Gallinger and Aaron Leedham in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of My-Linh Thai
My-Linh Thai (D)
 
59.1
 
30,617
✔
Image of Al Rosenthal
Al Rosenthal (R) Candidate Connection
 
27.0
 
14,004
Image of Harlan Gallinger
Harlan Gallinger (Independent)
 
7.4
 
3,821
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Aaron Leedham (D)
 
6.4
 
3,290
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
50

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 51,782
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Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Al Rosenthal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rosenthal's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I moved to the Seattle area in 1991 with my wife and two children. I am a retired Boeing Engineer (retired 2014). I am a hands on owner of commercial office and retail property. I believe that a WA State representative should spend taxpayer money the way they would spend their own money. I am socially moderate, finically conservative, and I support Law Enforcement. BS degree in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY. Aircraft Structural Engineer from 1977-2014 at Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, and Boeing. As a King County commercial property owner/manager for 29 years, I have seen firsthand how mishandling of homelessness by government agencies has resulted in failure.
  • There are about 120,000 OD deaths in the US per year, two thirds are from Fentanyl. That is the equivalent of 15 737 crashing per week or one 9-11 every week. Fentanyl dealers are mass murders and should be prosecuted as mass murders. 
        Democrats are for Low Barrier Housing and Housing First where addicts are allowed to do drugs, there is no required treatment, and they are given the tools that they need to take drugs. It has not worked and will not work.
    Fentanyl addicts need treatment in drug free State facilities.
  • Addressing the alarming rise in gun crimes and gun deaths requires a multifaceted approach that focuses on both prevention and accountability. The State must enact stricter laws and enforcement measures to ensure that individuals who commit gun-related offenses face appropriate consequences. This includes implementing mandatory long sentences for gun crimes, as well as a one-year mandatory sentence for carrying a concealed gun without a permit (with the exception of a recently expired permit) to discourage criminals from carrying guns.
  • I respect the voter's decision on controversial issues like abortion rights, which were settled by Washington voters in 1991 through the Initiative process. Given the Initiative process, voters have the final say, and the abortion issue should not be a decisive factor when choosing between a Republican or Democrat candidate. Instead, other issues like safety and wasteful spending should be considered. In my opinion, an extreme ban on abortion would not be supported by the voters, and terminating a healthy pregnancy in the final weeks is morally wrong. However, I respect and support the will of the people, as determined by the Initiative process. I would propose any changes to the abortion law should be voted on by the people.
Safety and wasteful spending.
The book “Free to Choose” by Milton Friedman, a powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two.
I believe that a WA State representative should spend taxpayer money the way they would spend their own money.
Because of my engineering background I have analytical thinking, and because I would treat the taxpayers money as if it were my own and not allow wasteful spending.
To follow the will of the people and never reverse or change an Initiative that was voted on by the people, without putting it to a vote by the people first.
A country where everyone has the opportunity to prosper.
Paper boy from age 12-15, sheet rocker on new homes while I was in high school and college.
Free to Choose, by Milton Friedman, because he explains why Big Government is not the solution.
"Stuck In The Middle With You", it reminds me of my wild high school days and today's political climate.

Stuck in the Middle with You Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Well, I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs

[Chorus]
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you

[Verse 2]
Yes, I'm stuck in the middle with you
And I'm wondering what it is I should do
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place

[Chorus]
Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in the middle with you

[Post-Chorus]
Well, you started out with nothing
And you're proud that you're a self-made man
And your friends, they all come crawling
Slap you on the back and say
Please

Please
Dealing with the Fentanyl Plague and the large increase in homelessness that it has caused.

To reduce building regulations that are responsible to some extent for the increase in the cost of housing.

To stop wasteful spending.
No.
Yes.
No
Yes, from several private business that unlike Public Corporations use legal justifiable force to stop shoplifters. We need a state law that exempts them from liability when they use legal justifiable force to stop theft.
Yes, within thirty days of the declaration of the emergency.
A law that charges significant Fentanyl dealers with 1st Degree Aggravated Murder. Because they are mass murders.
WA Asians For Equality

They are against the State of WA discriminating based on race for WA State school admissions and WA State employment.

Safe Eastside
They are against permitting drugs and alcohol in homeless facilities as is allowed in the current "LOW BARRIER HOUSING" & "HOUSING FIRST" models.

WA Log Cabin Republicans
Representing the interests of gay and lesbian persons. They believe in the core values of limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free markets and a strong national defense. The members I have spoken to are against giving kids drugs to transition them from their born sex before they are 18.

Personal endorsement from David Leong, President of Seattle Chinese American Chamber of Commerce.
The government should be 100% transparent.
Seems to be working well, but changes to laws passed by initiative should be voted on by the people.

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2022

Candidate Connection

Al Rosenthal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rosenthal's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Professional Experience:

Aircraft Structural Engineer from 1977-2014 at Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, and Boeing. As a King County commercial property owner/manager for 27 years, I have seen firsthand how mishandling of homelessness by government agencies has resulted in failure.

Education BS degree in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY.

Community Service

Served on City of Redmond Homeless Task Force 2015-2017

My wife of 38 years, Wafa, and I have lived here since 1991, and we loved raising our family here, and we felt safe. For real safety, crime must be stopped and not allowed to spread. The State must provide facilities where drug-addicted persons who engage in criminal activity, will be detained, and receive mandatory treatment, with the goal of reuniting them free of addiction with family or friends that will house them.

We must support our kids to excel academically while ensuring all parents have a voice.

Endorsed by: Safe Eastside, WA Log Cabin Republicans (representing LGBT persons) 

  • The Homeless Problem: It is people with compassion but a lack of understanding that are making the problem worse. Buy not prosecuting for possession of hard drugs and allowing shoplifting to buy drugs, creating housing where you can freely use drugs and alcohol, and only offer voluntary treatment (voluntary treatment is like leaving your 3-year-old alone in a room with a bowl of candy and telling him to take only one). Seattle and King County are the perfect example of how this does not work, and the rest of the State of WA is following Seattle’s lead. What needs to be done is enforce hard drug laws and shoplifting laws. When they are confined, we must force them off drugs and give them treatment.
  • Crime: What has gone wrong in Seattle and surrounding cities and the rest of the State of Washington is crime is not being prosecuted or enforced. We need to enforce laws that we already have, not enforcing existing laws has lead to increased physical crime, property crime, and death of our law enforcement personnel.
  • Fentanyl OD deaths per year went from about 5,000 in 2015 to currently over 70,000. One- and one-half times more people between the ages of 18-49 during the Covid pandemic died from Fentanyl than from Covid. Hard drug use and not enforcing the drug laws is what is driving the homeless problem, would you give a drug addict relative shelter in your house?
The Homeless Solution: The State must provide facilities where drug addicted persons that commit crimes like significant shoplifting, assault, use illegal hard drugs, etc., can be detained, gotten off drugs, given mandatory treatment, and attempt to reunite them with family or friends that will house them.

Homeless that have not committed crimes: First the State should attempt to find family or friends that would be willing to have them live in their homes, and if required pay for transportation to reunite them. If the first option is not possible provide facilities where they can get temporary housing, where no illegal drugs or alcohol are allowed, where being under the influence of illegal drugs or alcohol is not allowed, and if they have an addiction treatment is required and mandatory.
The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich A. Hayek
That they are successful and honest in his personal life.
My personal life is successful and I am honest.
To keep the state safe and to spend the taxpayers money as if it were their own money.
The Road to Serfdom, it explains how socialism in Germany lead to WWII.
Stuck in the Middle with you
They must work together.
Public safety. The state laws must be fixed to allow Law Enforcement to arrest both hard drug users (give them treatment to get them off drugs) and street level drug dealers. All Law Enforcement agencies in the State of WA are no longer arresting street level drug dealers because of changes in WA State law.
The benefit is that it is more diverse, the drawback is that it is more difficult to pass laws.
No, successful business experience is more important.
Yes to get things done.
Random computer generated.
Law Enforcement laws.
No
Recently a Bellevue Police Officer told me that because of changes in state law if a person walked across the street in front of us with a kilo of heroine he could not arrest the person, he could take the drugs away but could not arrest the person.
The legislature should oversee emergency powers.
Yes, you must compromise to get things done. Someone who agrees with you 80% of the time and disagrees with you 20% of the time is a friend, not an enemy.

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2020

Candidate Connection

Al Rosenthal completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Rosenthal's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Elected Experience: None

Other Professional Experience: I worked as an Aircraft Structural Analyst from 1977-2014 for Grumman, McDonnell Douglas, and Boeing. As a King County commercial property owner for 25 years, I have seen first-hand how mishandling of homelessness by government agencies has resulted in failure.


Education: I have a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Manhattan College, Bronx, NY.

Community Service: I served on the 2015 City of Redmond Homeless Task Force.


Statement: I promise to: fix traffic congestion by improving Downtown Bellevue I-405 to allow more capacity, prioritize spending of tax-payers' hard-earned tax dollars, engage citizens to determine their priorities in our public safety as well as quality of life and education, and finally promote a healthy and sustainable environment and economy to provide opportunities for all. As an engineer, I work with facts and data. I want to use my experience to solve problems. I do not want this district to become another Seattle, plagued by irresponsible representatives that do not know how to efficiently spend money.

I appreciate your vote.

Contact: 425-785-3925 alfrosenthal@aol.com Web Site: northwestal.us

  • I do not want the 41st District to become another Seattle, plagued by unknowing and irresponsible representives that do not know how to efficiently spend money.
  • I want to improve traffic congestion on I-405 in the area of Downtown Bellevue, the center of the 41st
  • With my engineering experience and my experience as an owner/manager of Retail and Office buildings I will use facts and Data to come up with efficient solutions that work.
My father was born in 1928 to one of the poorest families in Valley Stream, NY about twenty miles from Manhattan, lived in a house with no electric till he was twelve and had no running water till he installed it for his mother when he was an adult. He dropped out of school at age 16 to work, ended working putting up Sheet Rock (for those that know nothing about construction a carpenter) in new homes. Even though it was against the Carpenters Union rules most of the time he worked piece work (payed by how many boards you put up, not by hours), made more than union wages, and made higher wages than your average college graduate. I know what it was like to put up Sheet Rock, I did it for six summers, weekend, and school breaks, so I know how hard people that work on new home construction work. The wages for manual labor on new home construction are relatively way lower than what they were from 1950 through the 1980's.

One of my passions because of my life experience above is to make higher wage opportunities for hard working manual wage workers like my father was.
One of my passions is to have K-12 teach the basics with a great emphasis on math and Science. Because of my Engineering background I put great value on math and science.

One of my passions is to get drug addicts off drugs and not enable drug addicts' like many elected officials in Seattle and some on the East Side want to do.
Structural Engineer at Grumman Aero Space. Left after two years to work as contract labor as a Structural Engineer for Aircraft Companies.
No.
Yes, elected official must work together.

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Al Rosenthal campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2Lost general$0 $0
2022Washington House of Representatives District 41-Position 2Lost general$4,297 $3,352
Grand total$4,297 $3,352
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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    2. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 2, 2024


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