More Rossi pushback on attack ads

Dino Rossi's campaign has been fighting back early and often against new television ads attacking Rossi's record in the state Senate.

They put out a press release Thursday afternoon before the ad buy was even announced Friday morning, and now that the Rossi camp has seen the videos, they have more to say. Rossi today called the attacks old news and called the claims of the 527 that sponsored the ad, Evergreen Progress, false.  

"These are the same old attacks they tried to make in the 2004 campaign," said Rossi spokesperson Jill Strait. "They didn't stick then and they won't stick now. The truth is, in the end, Dino supported a Patient Bill of Rights, he voted to help lower prescription drugs costs and more children had access to health care."

The release goes on to dispute the three premises of the ads, that Rossi voted against a patient's bill of rights, cut 40,000 children from health care and voted against negotiating for lower prescription drug costs. Rossi argues that he voted for a better patient's bill of rights then the one cited in the attack ad, that he supported a different version of negotiating for prescription prices, and that the budget was bi-partisan.