Ron Dotzauer
Their complicated relationship began in 1985, when Cantwell, then 23-years-old, was the first employee in the 37-year-old Dotzauer’s consulting firm. They dated, “had a sexual encounter” a week before he was to get married to another woman (thus confirming her status as “the other” in Dotzauer’s divorce papers) and continued their political partnership, with him acting as an adviser in every one of her campaigns. (He was her campaign manager in her successful bid to unseat three-term incumbent Slade Gorton in 2000).
Jim Johanson
Currently a lawyer and, at one time, a candidate for Snohomish County Superior Court, Johanson and Cantwell dated during her first Senate run in 2000. He also succeeded her as state rep when she bumped up to the U.S. House in the early ‘90s.
She’s been around.