One item worth reading in full, a second profile of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi.
Dino worked for a real estate firm that folded, its owner eventually serving jail time for fraud. What's worse, Rossi followed the owner, Melvin G. Heide, after the firm went bankrupt to a different firm, even as it was clear to just about everyone that a lot of innocent people had been bilked. Dino himself is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Money line: "Former Capretto agent Goldberg, a Rossi supporter, said he understood why people stuck with Heide. 'We've all got to get paid,' he said. 'You gotta work and you gotta make money. We all take the path of least resistance.' "
We continue our series on the Bush record on the environment.
Today, Alex Fryer looks at the White House's regulation czar, who demands a cost-benefit analysis of new regulations.
Fryer: "Through rigorous analysis, Graham wants to create 'smart' regulation that protects the environment at lower cost. But it is a process fraught with subjectivity. While it's relatively simple to document how environmental regulation hurts businesses, the value of pristine forests, clean lakes and species protection can't be expressed in dollars. As a result, the ratio between costs and benefits often appears skewed. And when it comes to actually writing regulations, OIRA (Office of Information and Regulatory Policy ) has a record of adopting language proposed by industry lobbyists, not environmentalists."
If there's one thing that's going to take down Sen. Patty Murray, it may be this. (Click on "Different" to watch.)
A new Nethercutt ad stings her with a tape of her touting everything Osama bin Laden once did in the developing Muslim world of South Asia. He built schools, hospitals and daycare centers and made their lives better, she's caught on tape saying. Her point was that the U.S. has to get more involved in the developing world and change ordinary people's lives there. But that point is lost in the ad, to be sure. We've all been waiting for this ad to appear, and here it is, Nethercutt's trump card.
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