“Despite what Dino Rossi’s special interest Washington backers would like to believe, voters will hold Rossi responsible for lying to them about his cruel plan to raise taxes on the elderly, to slash healthcare for children, and raise tuition on Washington’s students,” – DCCC spokesperson Drew Godinich
We’ve been down this road before – Dino Rossi would like people to remember him as a bipartisan operator who crafted a ‘balanced budget that protected our most vulnerable, without raising taxes’ during his time in the Washington State Legislature. But now, Dino Rossi is getting some help from his dark money backers in DC – Paul Ryan’s Super PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund – are getting in on the blatant, easily disprovable falsehoods fun.
As a reminder:
- Three fact checks refuted this falsehood
- Rossi’s budget “did raise taxes”
- Rossi’s budget didn’t protect the vulnerable:
o It was balanced on the backs of the elderly by raising taxes on nursing homes
o It “eliminated coverage for an estimated 46,000 children in the state Medicaid program”
o It “cut prenatal care for undocumented immigrants”
o It “increased tuition at colleges and universities by 9 percent”