So real estate salesman Dino Rossi failed to get the endorsement of his own association, which decided instead to provide a glowing endorsement to incumbent Patty Murray. That's old news, from before the NRSC bought themselves a candidate in Dino Rossi.
It's the latest news that's really fun. The Washington Farm Bureau--as Republican as the Farm Bureaus are all across the country--announced its endorsements, consisting of a full slate of Republican congress members and challengers. Until they got to the Senate race.
No candidate for U.S. Senate received sufficient recommendations to allow for an endorsement.
As Goldy notes, Rossi got the Farm Bureau endorsement back when he was running for governor. So what's the problem for Rossi now? Goldy speculates:
Was there a large contingent of Clint Didier supporters? Or perhaps incumbent Sen. Patty Murray, who won the Friend of the Farm Bureau Award in 2009, has a few, um, friends on the Farm Bureau who appreciate her work on behalf of Washington’s agriculture industry?
It's possible that they don't want to alienate Murray. But it's also quite possible that there is a Didier contingent in the Farm Bureau, particularly if you judge by the number of farms that have gigantic Didier signs along both I-5 through Western Washington and I-90 through eastern Washington. Yeah, yard signs don't vote, but they are a reflection of enthusiasm, and from what I've seen from my travels through the state, the enthusiasm in that primary is for Didier. The realtors and Farm Bureau sure don't have any for Rossi.
The NRSC certainly has sunk a lot into Rossi, and have their bankster friends ponying up, too, trying to take down Murray. But it's looking likelier that a decent chunk of all that money is going to have to go into August's primary.