If you wanted to hear Dino Rossi talk about how to profit off of property, you may have missed your chance. The Seattle Times is reporting that the final event in the series of real estate seminars Rossi has been participating in has been canceled.
Rossi has been repeatedly attacked by Democrats for lending his face and name to the seminars, which include talk of how investors can make money off foreclosures. Sticking with the seminars was a strange decision — as supporters of Sen. Patty Murray (D) told me, the attack ads basically write themselves — and abandoning them will probably be to Rossi’s benefit.
Despite the obvious advantages to Rossi, the Times reports he’s not the one that pulled out of the seminar. Turns out the final seminar in the series was canceled by organizers worried about how Rossi’s participation made them look.
From the Times:
Steven Marshall, a partner at Kirkland’s Cobalt Mortgage, said organizers had grown nervous that marketing for the events could be viewed as political contributions or otherwise run afoul of campaign laws.
“If we sent out something with a Dino picture in it, could it be interpreted as marketing Dino in the middle of a campaign?” Marshall said.
