It’s not every day you get to celebrate the complete and total failure of a millionaire. In the race to represent Washington’s 8th Congressional District, former state senator Dino Rossi lost against Kim Schrier, a pediatrician and first-time Democratic candidate from Sammamish, by nearly 15,000 votes. It’s one for the history books, and not just because a Democrat has never represented the 8th District in the US House of Representatives before.
I guess an enthusiastic endorsement from the Seattle Times (like Rossi got) only goes so far. Schrier’s decisive win humiliated Rossi, handing him his fourth consecutive political defeat since 2004. But if you go all the way back to his first run for the state senate in 1992, it’s actually the fifth time he’s been officially declared a loser. That year, he lost to Kathleen Drew. He ran for the same seat in 1996 and proved victorious, but that was the last time voters decided to send him into office. In 2004, he lost the governor’s mansion to Christine Gregoire (by a mere 133 votes). He lost to her again by a much larger margin in 2008. Then he lost to Senator Patty Murray in his bid for the US Senate in 2010.
