Dino Rossi an alternate history

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                                                          FEBRUARY 2005
BREAKING
The Legislature has come to a Bi-Partisan agreement on the sales tax, both the republican senate and democrat house have agreed to cut the sales tax by 1.25% from 8.5% to 7.25%.




Dino Rossi Greets State Senator Don Benton after the bill passed the senate on a 32-17 vote.

The house is expected to pass the bill soon.

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                                                          MARCH 2005
HOUSE PASSES BILL TO LOWER THE SALES TAX BY 1.25%


House Speaker Frank Chopp urging the democrats to support the bill.

The sales tax cut passed on a 68-30 vote.

Dino Rossi is expected to sign the bill into law.

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BREAKING NEWS




Hello I’m Chris Wallace we have just received a report that house speaker Dennis Hastert is going to resign this is sending shock waves though out all of DC.No word yet on why he is resigning but Dennis Hastert house speaker since 1999 is resigning.

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Breaking the AP has learned from GOP house insiders that they heard some talk 3 weeks ago about Dennis Hastert sexually abusing Teenage boys, so the GOP investigated and they seem to think the reports are true so they told Dennis that if he did not resign they would vote him out as speaker and vote him out of the house. Dennis agreed to resign, now from our sources inside the GOP here are the front runners for Speaker of the house.

Marsha Blackburn


John Boehner

John Boehner Campaigns for President Bush 2003
Eric Cantor


Darrel Issa

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                                                         APRIL 2005
BREAKING NEWS
This is fox 12 breaking news


Dino Rossi moments ago signed into law the first sales tax reduction in Washington history. Here is what governor Rossi had to say.

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In our latest FOX 12 poll Rossi holds a 51-42 approval.

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                                        BREAKING NEWS

Slade Gorton has just stated he will not run for Re-election in 2006, Slade Gorton who has been in and out of Congress since 1980 nearly lost in 2000 holding on by only 628 votes against Congresswoman Maria Cantwell.


The democrats reportedly were already trying to talk Christine Gregoire into running against Gorton it will be interesting to see if she runs now that Gorton is out.

The republicans most mentioned in the event that Gorton step down are....
State senator Don Benton.....
Attorney General Rob McKenna.....
Governor Dino Rossi....

No word on if any are interested but GOP insiders say it’s very unlikely that Rossi runs especially since he just became governor.

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                                                                  MAY 2005
BREAKING NEWS
In a 231-194 vote the House Of Representatives has elected...

Darrell Issa as the next Speaker of the House



Official speaker of the house picture


Darrell Issa at a fundraiser with businessman Donald Trump.

Darrell Issa who has been a congressman since 2001 representing the northwestern part San Diego County in the 49th congressional district is also the wealthiest congressman in Congress right now.

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Great TL. Did Issa want to be Speaker, though?

Yes he was in the running the GOP leadership talked and decided he was the best choice for speaker especially after the pervert Hastert.

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                                        BREAKING NEWS

Slade Gorton has just stated he will not run for Re-election in 2006, Slade Gorton who has been in and out of Congress since 1980 nearly lost in 2000 holding on by only 628 votes against Congresswoman Maria Cantwell.


The democrats reportedly were already trying to talk Christine Gregoire into running against Gorton it will be interesting to see if she runs now that Gorton is out.

The republicans most mentioned in the event that Gorton step down are....
State senator Don Benton.....
Attorney General Rob McKenna.....
Governor Dino Rossi....

No word on if any are interested but GOP insiders say it’s very unlikely that Rossi runs especially since he just became governor.

We at the Seattle Times can comfirm that Christine Gregoire will run for the U.S Senate Seat held by Slade Gorton, this is a big recruitment win for the democrats. Republicans still haven’t picked a candidate yet.

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BREAKING NEWS
We at the Columbia can comfirm that state senator Don Benton will run for the senate seat held by retiring senator Slade Gorton.

We have this picture of Don Benton filling out paper work to run for senate

Don Benton who has been a state senator in the Vancouver Washington area for 12 years is a very good recruitment for the republicans. But he does start as the underdog since Washington does lean Blue and that it’s a midterm with Bush as President but the election is still 18 months away.

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                                                                          JUNE 2005

Bill Frist in keeping with his term limit pledge will retire after 2 terms.


In other news House Democrats in the state of Washington are urging the Republicans to support a cigarette tax increase to help fund schools no word on if Governor Rossi supports the proposal.

In Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine former mayor of Richmond and LG has won the democrat nomination for Governor of Virginia.

The Republicans nominee is Jerry Kilgore who was the Attorney General of Virginia.

In New Jersey the Democrats nominated Jon Corzine who the Incumbent Senator of New Jersey.

While the Republicans nominated Businessman Doug Forrester.

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New poll has Dino Rossi at 55-38 approval.

Governor Dino Rossi during his State Of The State Address.

Dino Rossi right now holds a 81-14 approval with republicans.....

He holds a 58-35 approval with independents......

And a 28-61 approval with democrats.....

Governor Rossi’s highest approval rating by region is in Eastern Washington where he holds a 68-22 approval....

While his lowest approval rating by region is in Seattle where he holds a 32-61 approval....

Rossi has a 61-28 approval with men.....

While with women he holds a 55-38 approval.....

Governor Rossi has a 59-32 approval with whites

While he holds a 43-49 approval with all other races.....

But within others Rossi has a 57-30 approval rating.....

For 2008 48% say he should be re-elected while 39% say no and 13% say not sure.

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Goodspaceguy just declared he he’s in for Slade Gortons open senate seat.


Goodspaceguy when he ran in 2002 for Congress.

Goodspaceguy has declared he is in no word on what party he will run for but in the past he has ran as a republican a democrat and an independent so it will be interesting to see how he runs this time.

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                                                     SEPTEMBER 2005

BREAKING NEWS

We at the Seattle Times have just received a heart breaking report a plane has just crashed outside Spokane carrying SENATORS SLADE GORTON,PATTY MURRAY and CONGRESSMAN BRIAN BAIRD. They were on there way to Pearson Airfield in Vancouver Washington to Hold A Town Hall. No word on if any has died but either way the whole country is watching.


Update we have a statement from Governor Rossi.

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BREAKING NEWS SENATOR SLADE GORTON IS DEAD

Senator Slade Gorton January 8th 1928-September 23rd 2005.

Senator Slade Gorton Died After a Plane carrying Him Senator Murray,Congressman Baird and four other passengers crashed. From what the police are saying is that the plane went down due to engine failure, the pilots suffered injuries but there not expected to be life threatening, while Senator Murray is in critical condition, also Congressman Baird is in critical condition with life threatening injuries. The other passengers conditions are fair in to critical.

Senator Gorton was 78 years old.

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BREAKING

Dino Rossi has ordered all flags be put at half staff in honor of Slade Gorton.

Dino Rossi will make a statement in one hour.

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                                               BREAKING NEWS

                 
We have some very sad news to comfirm Congressman Brian Baird has died as a result of his injuries. Brain Baird was in a plane crash a couple of days ago outside Spokane he was in critical condition with life threatening injuries but it now is official he has died. Also on board the plane was Senator Patty Murray and Senator Slade Gorton who was comfirmed dead as soon as the paramedics arrived. Senator Patty Murray is expected to survive as well as all the other passengers on board.

Dino Rossi had this to say

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                                                       OCTOBER 2005
In Virginia the polls show that democrat Tim Kaine will win 49-47 with the rest undecided.

In New Jersey the polls show that Jon Corzine is on his way to a decent win.

In Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee Said he is leaving the Republican Party and will become a Democrat.

In Minnesota Mark Dayton said he was retiring saying DC is to much of a mess.

In Vermont Jim Jeffords Republican turned independent democrat is retiring in 2006.

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STATE SENATOR DON BENTON DROPS OUT OF THE SENATE RACE


State Senator Don Benton announced that he is dropping out of the senate race to instead run for the yet to be announced Washington third congressional district special election.

This leaves the senate race without a republican however Dino Rossi is reportedly going to announce the person he is appointing to take over for Slade Gorton. There is some talk to save the state of Washington money that there won’t be any special election.

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Governor Rossi has announced that April Eleventh will host the special election for Washington’s Third Congressional District. No democrats have announced for this swingy seat but there are some who looking into running.

In Other News Patty Murray was released from hospital after spending 4 weeks in the hospital.

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                                                       BREAKING NEWS






Governor Rossi has announced that he will be appointing STATE REPRESENTATIVE RICHARD DEBOLT to fill the Slade Gorton’s senate term after he died in a plane crash.

Governor Rossi reportedly had a hard finding someone to appoint because he didn’t want to appoint a state senator since Don Benton is likely to win his election to the third congressional district and to many open seats would give control to the democrats. He wanted Rob McKenna but he turned it down because he wants to run for senate in 2010 or governor in 2012.

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BREAKING STATE HOUSE PASSES CIGARETTE TAX INCREASE
Today October 16th the state house passed a 2.25% tax increase on all cigarettes.

The vote was done on a 72-21 vote. The state senate is expected to pass the bill soon.

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State senate passes cigarette tax increase.

The state just voted to raise taxes on cigarettes on a 39-10 vote.

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                                                   NOVEMBER EIGHTH 2005

It’s 9PM EASTERN and we can call the following races

In Illinois we can call that Randy Hultgren will win the special election to fill Dennis Hastert’s seat.


In Virginia Tim Kaine won the governorship taking over for term limited governor Mark Warner that race is a democrat hold.

In New Jersey Senator  Jon Corzine ran and won the governorship in New Jersey.

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So now this is not a part of the timeline but it’s funny that I made Darrell Issa speaker of the house and now he’s retiring.