Dr Kim Schrier's smear campaign against Dino Rossi

Dr Kim Schrier's campaign has run several ads alleging that Dino Rossi's campaign is sold out to dark and mysterious forces.  Schrier's ads have been called  a lowlife smear.

You would expect the alleged financial oddities to show up in the campaign statements.

Since Rossi and Schrier are running for the Washington 8th district US Congressional seat recently held by Dave Reichert, federal election campaign laws prevail.  We can check how much impact mysterious forces are having by using the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) website data.  Here is a summary comparing the two 8th district candidates in the upcoming general election:

Rossi (R) FEC link	$4,098,669.12
Total receipts	$4,073,609.43
Total individual contributions	$3,651,459.43
Party committee contributions	$5,000.00
Other committee contributions	$416,850.00
Candidate contributions	$300.00
Transfers from other authorized committees	$5,000.00
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Schrier (D) FEC link
Total receipts	$5,343,212.64
Total contributions     $4,920,643.48	$4,920,643.48
Total individual contributions	$4,650,628.61
Party committee contributions	$0.00
Other committee contributions	$264,614.87
Candidate contributions	$5,400.00
Transfers from other authorized committees	$421,603.22

Its pretty clear from the data that the two campaigns are about equal in financial resources, with Schrier somewhat ahead in the overall.  The question for Dr Schrier is, What mysterious forces operate in the Rossi campaign that do not also operate in the Schrier campaign?  Where are those dark forces the Schrier's campaign is smearing Rossi for?

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You can compare all the Washington State 8th district Congressional candidates at https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/WA/08/2018/