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Dino Rossi
Dino Rossi (Republican Party) was a member of the Washington State Senate, representing District 45.
Rossi (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Washington's 8th Congressional District. He lost in the general election on November 6, 2018.
Rossi previously served in the Washington State Senate.[1]
Biography
His professional experience includes serving as a partner at the Coast Equity Partners real estate investment company. He received his bachelor's degree from Seattle University.[2]
Elections
2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Washington District 8
Kim Schrier defeated Dino Rossi in the general election for U.S. House Washington District 8 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Kim Schrier (D) | 52.4 | 164,089 |
 | Dino Rossi (R) | 47.6 | 148,968 | |
| Total votes: 313,057 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 8
The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 8 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dino Rossi (R) | 43.1 | 73,288 |
| ✔ | | Kim Schrier (D) | 18.7 | 31,837 |
 | Jason Rittereiser (D) | 18.1 | 30,708 | |
 | Shannon Hader (D) | 12.5 | 21,317 | |
 | Jack Hughes-Hageman (R) | 2.5 | 4,270 | |
| Gordon Allen Pross (R) | 1.2 | 2,081 | ||
| Thomas Cramer (D) | 0.9 | 1,468 | ||
 | William Eugene Grassie (Independent) | 0.7 | 1,163 | |
| Richard Reyes (L) | 0.7 | 1,154 | ||
 | Keith Arnold (Independent) | 0.6 | 1,090 | |
 | Patrick Dillon (Neither Major Party) | 0.5 | 898 | |
| Todd Mahaffey (Independent) | 0.4 | 673 | ||
| Total votes: 169,947 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brian Kostenko (D)
- Poga Ahn (D)
- Robert Hunziker (D)
- Brayden Olson (D)
Campaign themes
2018
Campaign website
Rossi’s campaign website stated the following:
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Protecting the Vulnerable I defended funding for seniors, the mentally ill, and those with developmental disabilities by bringing people from both parties together onto fiscally responsible and socially conscientious common ground. That’s why my budget work in the state Senate was signed by the Democratic Governor and supported by every single Republican Senator and 38 Democrats in the Washington legislature, including the current Speaker of the House, Frank Chopp. I have dedicated myself to protecting the most vulnerable in society. My balanced budget earned the Senior Star Award from the AARP for protecting seniors, and developmental disabilities groups gave me eight different awards for my work in the legislature defending the vulnerable. I will work to enact effective, fiscally-responsible programs designed to get results and eliminate the bureaucracy that prevents kids, the disabled, and other vulnerable groups from getting the help they need. I will keep our word to our senior citizens by protecting and preserving Medicare and Social Security for everyone who has paid into it. It’s their money. I will work to ensure that everyone gets 100% of the Social Security they are entitled to while reducing fraud and abuse. Economy & Jobs The recent tax cuts for the middle class should be made permanent. The median family of four in the 8th Congressional District will save $3,357 a year thanks to these tax cuts, and the median individual tax filer will save $2,191 each year. These cuts should be preserved because they are already leading to economic growth and job opportunities, with companies from Boeing to Walmart to Starbucks along with dozens of others already offering raises and bonuses. In a presentation to the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Steve Lerch, Executive Director of the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council, stated that, because of this tax cut, 20,000 to 21,000 new jobs will be created in Washington state. These are real and lasting benefits for the middle class, and I am the only candidate in favor of preserving them. Government Reform My guiding vision for every policy decision is whether it will move the economy forward or backward. I view all legislation through this prism. I will end the inattention to key business climate issues and return to responsible and sustainable federal budgeting. I will focus on fiscally responsible policies and work to produce a budget that reduces the deficit for the next generation of taxpayers while reducing the red tape and burdens that bureaucracy places on people. Environment I have been a steward of the environment and am committed to ensuring the conservation of public lands. I have twice won the Good Green Deeds award from the Washington Conservation Voters, and was on the Board of The Nature Conservancy and the Mountain-to-Sound Greenway Trust. I was also instrumental in saving the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery from closure as a state Senator. I favor an all-of-the-above approach to energy policy, including preserving our state’s dams and supporting nuclear power, which has been and will continue to be important to our nation’s energy infrastructure. I have campaigned on environmental issues, including calling for converting the state motor pool to hybrid and plug-in vehicles, providing a sales tax exemption on hybrid vehicles, replacing fish-killing road culverts and implementing congestion relief projects that would eliminate millions of tons of carbon emissions produced by cars stuck in traffic. Our forests must be managed more effectively to reduce forest fires, which destroy property, take lives, ravage communities, and release massive amounts of greenhouse gasses and particulate pollutants into the atmosphere. Immigration Additionally, I support improving the guest worker program for those who want to enter our country legally. A legislative immigration “fix” must also include a humane and compassionate approach to those here under the DACA program. Deporting hundreds of thousands of people to a country that they may have never known and left when they were young is not logical. Veterans Recently discharged military veterans deserve dedicated job training programs to ensure a successful transition to the private sector. I believe that meaningful employment is always preferable to unemployment and it is our duty to our veterans to help them add to the skills they acquired in the military and achieve meaningful jobs in the civilian sector. Job training programs would teach these veterans valuable skills and enhance the skills they gained from their service. Accessing VA programs is difficult for many veterans, which is one of the reasons why only a small percentage of veteransever use the benefits they earned during their service. We have to do a better job of ensuring veterans' health care needs are met, including allowing them to see doctors outside the VA system when necessary. All options need to be made available and properly funded to ensure that our nation’s veterans can utilize the health care they earned as a member of our Armed Forces. Keeping military families together and supported should be a priority for our nation. Reintegration of soldiers who are away from home for months at a time is a difficult transition for many families because there are not many dedicated, family-specific resources. It is important that we focus on doing all it can to assist families during active members’ time away from home and after their return. Public Safety I also led the debate and passage of Washington’s two-strikes law for sex offenders who prey on children. This bill has ensured that over 100 repeat child molesters have remained in prison rather than being released back into the general population. Securing cyber infrastructure and defending Americans while ensuring privacy Congress must work to provide adequate funding for our nation’s military. I will work with both parties to ensure that our military is properly outfitted and supported in order to continue its missions both at home and abroad. Healthcare I have personal experience with the consequences of mandates -- the last time Congress expanded mandates, my family lost our health insurance and we were forced to buy a more expensive plan with worse coverage that required us to purchase services we had no need for. Congress' decision last year to reduce health care mandates was a good start, but more must be done to drive down the cost of health care and increase individual choices for health insurance in the 8th District and across the country. Keeping Our Children Safe One thing that our Congress is failing to do now is to do more to recognize and treat mental illness in this country. It's important to have resources available to help people who may be struggling with mental disorders before they become dangerous, and I would support efforts to do more for the mentally ill, just as I did in the state legislature. It is essential for Congress to re-evaluate whether there are modifications in the market that turn legal weapons into illegal ones. It has been illegal to own automatic weapons (machine guns) for a very long time, and if there are technologies that can functionally turn hunting rifles into automatic weapons, we need to make sure they're not falling through loopholes in the law. We also must strictly enforce current firearms laws. After dipping for several years, prosecution of gun crimes is now trending up again, and that's a good thing. Although this is not a legislative fix, I believe that we must collectively stop sensationalizing the murderers who commit these attacks. The focus in the aftermath of these atrocities must be on helping the victims and preventing these attacks, not on giving the attackers the attention and platform they desire. |
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| —Dino Rossi’s campaign website (2018)[4] | ||
Campaign advertisements
The following is an example of an ad from Rossi's 2018 election campaign.
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Committee assignments
2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
| Washington committee assignments, 2017 |
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| • Commerce, Labor & Sports |
| • Ways & Means |
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Rossi was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Washington.[5] In Washington’s primary election on May 24, 2016, Donald Trump won 41 of Washington’s 44 Republican delegates, including all 30 district-level delegates and 11 of the state’s 14 at-large and RNC delegates. A total of three at-large and RNC delegates were allocated as unbound delegates. Ballotpedia was not able to identify whether Rossi was allocated to Trump or was one of Washington's three unbound delegates. If you have information on how Washington's at-large and RNC delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[6]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Washington to the Republican National Convention were elected at the state convention in May 2016. Delegates were bound by the statewide primary results for the first round of voting at the national convention.
Washington primary results
| Washington Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
75.5% | 455,023 | 41 | |
| Ted Cruz | 10.8% | 65,172 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 9.8% | 58,954 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 4% | 23,849 | 0 | |
| Totals | 602,998 | 41 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Washington Secretary of State | ||||
Delegate allocation
Washington had 44 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 30 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 10 congressional districts). Washington's district delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the primary vote within a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the district vote, he or she received all of that district's delegates. If only one candidates broke the 20 percent threshold, that candidate received all of the district's delegates. If two candidates each won more than 20 percent of the district vote, the first place finisher received two of the district's delegates, and the second place finisher received one. If three candidates each received more than 20 percent of the district vote, each candidate received one of the district's delegates. If four candidates each won more than 20 percent of the district vote, the top three finishers each received one delegate.[7][8]
Of the remaining 14 delegates, 11 served at large. Washington's at-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. However, the at-large delegates were allocated in proportion to all candidates who were on the ballot, meaning, if only one candidate surpassed the 20 percent threshold and there were multiple candidates on the ballot, then some delegates could be allocated as unbound delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[7][8]
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2017
In 2017, the Washington State Legislature, first session, was in session from January 9 through April 23. There were also special sessions. The first special session was April 24 through May 23. The second special session was May 23 through June 21. The third special session was June 21 through July 20.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to the state’s business community.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to home building industry issues.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to reproductive health issues.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on conservative issues.
- Legislators are scored on how they voted on firearm policies.
- Legislators are scored on their votes on bills related to environmental issues.
- Legislators are scored on whether they voted for or against WSLC's position.
See also
- United States House of Representatives
- Washington's 8th Congressional District election, 2018
- Washington's 8th Congressional District
- Washington State Legislature
- Washington State Senate
- Washington State Senate District 45
- Washington State Senate District 5
External links
- Search Google News for this topic
- United States House of Representatives
- Dino Rossi on the Washington State Senate website
- Campaign Twitter page
Footnotes
- ↑ Seattle Times, "Dino Rossi gets appointed back to state Senate," accessed July 12, 2012
- ↑ Dino Rossi for Congress, "About," accessed May 15, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Dino Rossi for Congress, “Issues,” accessed June 20, 2018
- ↑ Pasco2016.com, "Washington State Republican Party 2016 Electors for Delegates/Alternates/Electors," accessed June 15, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Andy Hill (R) |
Washington Senate District 45 December 2016 - November 29, 2017 |
Succeeded by Manka Dhingra (D) |
