Our legislative session preview continued today with a look at the need for legislation to reverse the State Supreme Court’s misguided declaration that public charter schools are unconstitutional. Several legislators have proposed fixes, and support for charters is bi-partisan in nature, so one would assume that the legislature could actually get this done. That is, of course, if the arm twisters with deep pockets (for Democrats) at the state’s teachers union actually allow Speaker Frank Chopp to let something come up for a vote. Another issue that Chopp wouldn’t bring up for a House vote was Jay Inslee’s cap-and-trade proposal, so now his Ecology Department has released a set of draft regulations to raise energy prices in Washington – so let the lawsuits begin. And finally, the circus that will be the race to succeed Jim McDermott in Congress is beginning to hum, with candidates letting the media know that people are calling them to ask them to run – because that’s what family is for, evidently.
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