Dino Rossi threw out the first pitch yesterday at the Yakima Bears game.
Hmm…..
You would think that Rossi wouldn’t want to remind people of his misuse of the Everett Aquasox mailing list fiasco. Rossi used the Aquasox mailing list to fundraise for the campaign. The owners of the Aquasox apologized for the misuse of the list and violating the team’s privacy policy.
Dino Rossi’s campaign recently sent out letters to the Seattle Mariners single A affiliate Everett AquaSox’s team mailing list inviting them to join the campaign’s Snohomish County finance committee for a $100 per person fundraiser at a July 7 AquaSox game, the Seattle Times’ David Postman is reporting.
The fundraising letter, however, did not go over well with Sox fans. Many of them complained to the ownership group, in which Rossi himself has a minority stake, prompting the team’s majority owners, Peter A. and Peter E. Carfagna, to apologize for what they called a compromise of privacy.
“We recently learned that our personal privacy policy was compromised in an attempt to solicit your support for a partisan political fundraiser,” majority owners Peter A. and Peter E. Carfagna told the team’s mailing list. “In that regard, on behalf of our family ownership group, we would like to express our sincere apologies.”