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Earlier this afternoon, Senator Patty Murray joined with local small business owners to laud the passage of the Senate’s small business bill. Much of the press conference was a repeat performance of yesterday’s lauding of the passage of the Senate’s small business bill. But hey, when you’re trying to drive the message that Democrats are champions of small business and the middle class, a little repetition can’t hurt.

“Senator Murray listened, Dino Rossi didn’t,” said Makini Howell, owner of Plum Bistro on Capitol Hill, who hosted the event. Howell said she was looking to expand her family business at the height of the recession but couldn’t get a loan from her local community bank due in large part to the liquidity crisis. Howell credits a small program within an earlier stimulus project for allowing her to receive a loan and open her restaurant in the summer of 2009.

Regarding the new, larger fund for small businesses, Howell flatly rejected Republican Dino Rossi’s charge that it’s another deficit-busting bailout. “It’s not a bailout, not a slush fund,” Howell said. “If you work for it, it will work for you.”

8 replies on “For These Small Business Owners, Choice in Rossi-Murray Race Is Clear”

  2. While the woman in the yellow top is undeniably hot, whoever did the blocking on this photo had a major aesthetics fail.

  4. Rossi’s probably right on the small business thing.

    Most Government SBA boasted business are political patronage of the Charlie Rangel ilk. I doubt if any of this money would go to legitimate startups.

  5. Bailo thinks a legitimate startup is one of many that a financial scammer/crook is owed after they have been exposed and/or convicted… so that they can freely skirt and flout the law or any sort of oversight whatsoever, the kind of enterprise that rip off granny in one county or jurisdiction, then just rename their LLC in another and wash, rinse, & repeat.

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