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Afternoon Jolt

Jolt, Opinion, Politics   August 20, 2010 at 3:25 pm Afternoon Jolt

Today’s Winner: Dino Rossi.

Snubbing Clint Didier was Rossi’s Sister Souljah moment.

Today’s Loser: The Washington State Democrats

The Washington State Democrats, who are busy doing PR for a host of important campaigns this fall, lost excellent spokeswoman Anne Martens this week.

Martens split to take a job doing communications for an omnibus ballot measure campaign—fighting against the batch of conservative ballot measures (such as the beverage tax repeal) and for the progressive ones (such the high-earners income tax.)


  • Diogenes

    Did Didier knowingly go along with Rossi’s scheme to triangulate towards the center, or did he just take too many to the head in his NFL daze?

  • Anonymous

    How can Rossi be a winner when he has to “think about” stating his core Republican principles? More likely he has to call his handlers on Wall Street and see if bank bailouts increase the deficit.