Patty Murray and Dino Rossi

From pattymurray.com (Patty Murray for Senate), dinorossi.com(Dino Rossi for Senate), and murray.senate.gov.

Patty Murray (by Noel Hansen):

About Patty Murray:

-Born in Washington.
-Mother of two children.
-She was the first women elected to the Senate from Washington State.
-She has served in Senate since 1993.
-She is known for her work on education issues.
-Chair of the Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee.
-Co-authored the SAFE Port act, which made improvements to port and harbor security.


Patty Murray on the issues:


Civil Rights:
-Against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
-Heavily supports domestic partnership.
-Actively Fights against workplace discrimination.
-Heavily supports abortion.

Economic Recovery:
-Supports reduced government spending and reducing the deficit.
-Supports cutting taxes for middle and lower middle class families.
-Favors financial regulation.
-Supports affordable health care.

Education:
-Supports smaller classrooms, more education spending.
-Heavily supports education reform.

Government Accountability:
-Supports market regulation.
-Support government accountability.

Health Care:
-Heavily supports health care reform.
-Believes health care should be more affordable.

Homeland Security and Law Enforcement:
-Supports the war on terror.
-Supports increased government spending in law enforcement and prevention.

Wall Street Reform:
-Supports the ending of bailout and “Too big to fail”.
-Heavily supports market regulation.

Seniors:
-Supports social security and medicare.

Dino Rossi (by Talan Gunnell):

About Dino Rossi

-Born in Washington.
-Business degree from Seattle University.
-Served in Washington State Senate from 1997 through 2003.
-In 2003, served as chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee – charged with producing the state’s budget.  That year, he wrote a bipartisan balanced budget that dealt with a massive budget deficit without raising taxes.
-Successful career in commercial real estate business.
-Currently serves as a Secretary for the Board of the Special Olympics for the State of Washington.
-Lives in Sammamish with wife and four children.

Dino on the Issues

Promote Economic Growth and Job Creation:  Get the economy back on track and get the people back to work
-Change tax and spending policies to stimulate the economy
-Reduce massive debt to protect long term economic prosperity
-Worry about workers and employers instead of catering to the politicians.

Fix Health Care: We need to repeal the Health Care bill and replace it with common-sense bipartisan proposals that give power to patients and doctors not government and insurance companies.
-Replace Pelosi-Reid healthcare bill.
-Allow citizens to buy health insurance across state lines.
-Make offering insurance more affordable for small businesses by allowing them to join together and get the discounts available to big corporations.
-Give individuals the same tax deductions as corporations.

Reform our Tax Code: Lower taxes promote economic growth and job creation.
-Fix the tax code to reward work, saving, and the investments that create jobs while closing special interest loopholes that favor the politically connected.
-Extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts that have helped families and created jobs.
-Stop new broad-based taxes like a European-style consumption tax.

Reduce Government Spending: Congress needs to stop the unprecedented pace our national debt has increased.  Congress is putting our economic future in jeopardy by continuing to spend money they don’t have.
-Cancel unspent bailout and stimulus funds and direct them toward deficit reduction.
-Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment with a supermajority to raise taxes.
-Cut Government Employment and reduce overly generous pay and benefits.

Energy: We need to lessen America’s energy dependence by developing more of our own resources.
-Oppose job killing energy taxes like cap and trade.
-Enhance safety procedures for any energy exploration, whether on land or off shore.
-Ensure polluters pay for any environmental degradation.

Control the Borders and Fix Immigration: America’s political leadership has lacked the will to control our borders.
-Oppose amnesty.
-Finish the border fence.
-Use technology to effectively patrol the border.
-Expand the use of employment verification technologies to reduce the employment magnet.
-Permit more high skilled workers and students to legally enter or remain in America.

Defend America and Our Allies: When America is strong and engaged in the world, it is a much safer place.
-Make sure our military remains the finest in the world and that our men and women in   uniform have all the tools they need to complete their missions and return safely.
-Make sure we have the strongest alliances in the world, that our allies, and our potential adversaries, know where America stands.
-Ensure victory over the world wide jihadist network of terrorists, including our missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
-Listen carefully to the advice of our commanders in the field and their civilian counterparts, but also guarantee that our military always has a clear plan for victory and an exit strategy.

-Noel Hansen and Talan Gunnell.