Posted by DAVIDRF at 6/25/08 5:50 p.m.

"Gov. Gregoire's political operatives have engaged in bigotry with this web video in order to shift the focus away from the ethical clouds surrounding Gregoire," Esser said in a statement. "This video is offensive to every Italian-American in this state and should not be tolerated."

Um..ok yeah. IMO, that's REALLY reaching with that statement. It's bigotry because they use music from the Sopranos? Does that mean he's going to be calling up HBO and demanding a retraction from them as well? How, exactly, is it offensive? If this is the best the GOP can muster, they really must be running out of issues to talk about.....

Posted by rambo_the_dog at 6/25/08 6:13 p.m.

Bigot:

a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

Weird...take out the racial component and you exactly describe a politicican

The Sopranos music is clearly an inference to Mr. Rossi's ethic background – or is it that they are trying to say that Mr. Rossi is connected to the Mob as in "The Sopranos"

Either way - more politcal meaningless propaganda - nothing ever changes just the level of noise...

Posted by citizen at 6/25/08 6:33 p.m.

Great Ad.

Posted by hparks_3 at 6/25/08 7:13 p.m.

As long as you're a Democrat, and Pro-Life its ok to be a bigot...not to mention a rapist, and leave a woman for dead as well.

Posted by buddhabrad at 6/25/08 7:13 p.m.

Not offended. Sorry.

And Dino Rossi is a loser. Proven fact.

Posted by wsu1983 at 6/25/08 7:13 p.m.

Rossi, you big baby! You don't have the brains needed to be governor of our state. Stay at home and homeschool your priviledged children and teach them homophobia, sexism, and racism like a good Republican. Long live the sheep :)

Posted by hparks_3 at 6/25/08 7:14 p.m.

Whoops that should read Pro-Abortion, but hey, in the world of DeMoralizecrats conveniently flexible ethics you get the idea.

Posted by gettingreal at 6/25/08 7:30 p.m.

Anyone who uses Sopranos music against someone with an Itialian name and doesn't expect to be called a bigot shouldn't be in the business of making commercials or much of anything else. It does seems like quid pro quo with Gregoire and her campaign donors. I say guilty.

Posted by Arcfault at 6/25/08 8:03 p.m.

Well that ad definitely got one message across. After watching it I have no other choice but to conclude Rossi is a member of the mafia. The only sleaze I see here is coming from a very scared democrat organization.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/25/08 8:13 p.m.

Dwight Pelz and his sleazy hatchet-job attack machine demean the Democratic Party. It's this type of misfire that has a lot of grassroots party faithful wondering why the hell Pelz is still at the helm.

Dwight undoubtedly signed off on this slime, and without so much as a second thought as to the implications. He should make a personal apology, and demote or fire the bigoted functionary who cut this thing (unless it's Pelz who's the bigot, in which case, he should step down).

Come on Washington Democrats...wake up!

Posted by Cameron08 at 6/25/08 8:54 p.m.

Since Rossi is half Native American, I wonder if the Democrats next ad will feature a drum circle pounding rhythmically accompanied by wails and laments of buckskin clad warriors. Whoops!!!!!!!! Check that, they only racially offend groups that DON"T buy off the GOVERNOR.

Speaking of Pelz and racism, wasn't Dwight the white guy trying to unseat the only black guy on the Seattle City Council a couple of years ago?

Posted by Denny P at 6/25/08 10:14 p.m.

I vote mostly liberal and that ad offends me. The implication that Rossi is in the mob is unmistakable. Come on Democrats, I thought we were going to slow down on the mud slinging.

Posted by Bwild at 6/25/08 10:36 p.m.

The Democrats are effete, elitist, and arrogant. 'The Rules' only apply to the other side, or so it appears.

I'm not a Rossi or Gregoire fan, but please stop stooping so low.

'Catchy' that song was when A3 released it years ago... Perhaps Steele just now got HBO?

Posted by Boyerbl at 6/26/08 7:58 a.m.

What a crock, the democrats indented was to link Rossi to organized crime using a racist theme. What if someone posted a anti Ron Sims spot using the Kentucky Fried chicken theme? People of color do not have a monopoly on exposing a obvious racist act.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/26/08 2:54 p.m.

I voted for Gov. Gregoire in the last election. I admire her. I'm on her email list. Having said that, her people must have suffered group brain drain when they agreed to use the Soprano's theme song in a political ad against an American of Italian ancestry! There are no excuses for such a vile ad, none whatsoever.

Gig Harbor Independent

Posted by unregistered user at 6/26/08 8:41 p.m.

Those of you who don't think there is a racist component to this are being willfully ignorant.

What if an attack ad on a Jewish-American politician played "Pennies From Heaven" as the background song. Or Perhaps an attack ad on German-American that played Nazi marching music with the goosestepping noise of soldiers feet in the background.

Good job governor, I am voting for whoever is the 3rd party candidate for governor.

Posted by I Hate Republicrats at 6/26/08 10:21 p.m.

The only thing that offends me is that the Italian Club has now demanded victim status for those of us with Italian heritage.

Posted by I Hate Republicrats at 6/26/08 10:32 p.m.

Rossi, you big baby! You don't have the brains needed to be governor of our state. Stay at home and homeschool your priviledged children and teach them homophobia, sexism, and racism like a good Republican. Long live the sheep :)"

There is no such thing as homophobia.

We home schooled our son and taught him to respect everyone regardless of their race, sex, political affiliation, religion or lack of it, or sexual preference. We home schooled because the public school failed to educate him. The public school system allows people who have not mastered basic skills such as reading a contract or calculating sales tax, to graduate. I submit that those who do not home school when there is a need are the sheep.

BTW, I voted for Ruth Bennett.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/27/08 1:53 a.m.

Gregoire is awesome. If the election is close, atleast we know she will win everytime with the WA state supreme court on her side.

I remember when she was attorney general she walked up to a friend of mine and told him in the lobby outside of court she was going to make an example out of him being a dead-beat dad infront of some media. He ended up having to take a second mortgage out to pay off a $38,000 child support debt for a child that wasn't his and was 20 years old.

His step daughter was caught up in drugs and couldn't handle a taking care of a baby. She left her daughter with him. 20 years later his step granddaughter decided to move back in with her mom. Mom then was collecting food stamps and state assistance. Since there was no record of where dad was or who he was, mom listed her step dad as the father since he was kind enough to take care of her for 20 years. The state automatically made a judgement against him saying mom listed herself as separated from the father before the childs birth so he owed for all 18 years, plus two years of community college she attended that would have to be shared with by the mother and father seperate from the base judgement.

5 years later the case was appealed...of course it's not hard to figure out what the results were with a Gregoire supreme court. It's no secret there my friends aren't big fans of Gregoire, but what the heck! I'm in! 4 more years of higher taxes with talk about expanding freeways to nowhere and a "good to go" pass! W()()T!

Posted by I Hate Republicrats at 6/27/08 7:48 a.m.

Freeways to nowhere?