Shift has created an information page on Republican candidates seeking to reside in the Governor’s Mansion next January.  Primary ballots will be mailed to Washington State voters in the next couple of days, and many moderate/conservative voters are undecided about who they are going to support for our state’s top political job. We thought our readers would appreciate some background on the top five (by financial support) Republican candidates for governor.  We have provided a link to their campaign websites, their YouTube channel/pages, and if applicable, a link to their campaign TV ads. Enjoy! (Shift)

The Washington State Republican Party Chairman condemns Democrats for remaining silent while Seattle members of their party move forward to cut police funding by 50%.  Chairman Caleb Heimlich said in a radio interview, “Jay Inslee, Kim Schrier, Democrat legislators have been silent, as the Seattle progressives, with seven of the nine City Council members saying, ‘We’re going to vote to cut the police budget by 50%, to defund half of the police department’ to lay off pretty much half of the officers and the negative impact that’s gonna have on the Seattle community.” Statewide elected Democrats and party officials have remained silent on slashing police funding, which only a few neighborhoods in Seattle even support.   (KTTH Radio)

This evening (Wednesday) the Roanoke Conference will be hosting a pair of Zoom debates among statewide candidates.  With ballots being mailed in the next couple of days, this is a perfect opportunity to hear from the many qualified Republican candidates who are seeking statewide positions. At 5:30 PM, the five Lt. Governor candidates will be questioned on their views.  At 7:00 PM, the three candidates for Attorney General will present their case on why they should replace Bob Ferguson.  REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED before the event.  The debates will be moderated by TVW’s Mike McClanahan. (Roanoke Conference candidate forum)

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has finally changed false statistics on their website, nearly two months after the Freedom Foundation released a report saying the Inslee administration was overinflating the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state.  A May 18th Freedom Foundation report revealed that the state included as COVID deaths all people who had tested positive for the coronavirus, even those who had obviously died of other factors (car accidents, suicide, gun shot, overdoses, etc.), and those where more information was required.  When first approached about these statistical errors, Governor Jay Inslee attempted to discredit the findings by labeling them as “conspiracy claims from the planet Pluto,” before DOH officials refuted Inslee’s statements and admitted the Freedom Foundation was correct.  On Monday evening, the DOH changed the death statistics on the state’s website and the number of “confirmed” COVID-19 deaths dropped by more than 10%. (Seattle Times and Freedom Foundation)

Promising results were found in coronavirus vaccine test conducted in Seattle and Atlanta.  In what normally takes years to accomplish, the first tests show a favorable immune response from volunteers who took part in human trials.  While the results are encouraging, there are still concerns about side effects of the vaccine and needing two separate shots a month apart to produce the neutralizing antibodies needed to combat the virus. (Seattle Times)

A week after Governor Inslee imposed a “No Facemask, No Service” rule on Washington State retailers, there continues to be mixed results from grocery stores in enforcing the rule.  One of the primary problems is that people who have some medical conditions are not required to wear the masks.  While some individuals continue to protest by not wearing a mask, some stores are strict about following the order, while other stores are indifferent in their enforcement.  Thus far, the Washington State Labor and Industry Department has not imposed any penalty on a retailer for failing to follow the facemask order. (Vancouver Columbian)

Two Seattle City councilmembers who campaigned on increasing the number of police officers have now hypocritically stated they want to reduce police funding by 50%.  Dan Strauss courted police support for his 2019 campaign by saying the city needs to hire more police and even add another precinct to serve his Ballard area constituents better.  Last year, Andrew Lewis also said the city needed to hire more officers to prevent crimes in his Magnolia/Queen Anne district.  Now both have broken their campaign promises due to unreasonable demands of violent protesters. (MyNorthwest)

The Bothell police officer who was killed by a suspect attempting to elude police was identified as Jonathan Shoop, and he had been with the police force for only a year.  Shoop grew up in Ballard, graduated from the University of Washington, and served in the Coast Guard before becoming a police officer last year.  He is survived by his fiancé, his mother, and two older brothers. A second police officer was also shot and has been released from the hospital, while a pedestrian who was hit by the car driven by the suspect remains in Harborview Hospital. (Everett Herald)

Health officials are alarmed about the lack of concern among young people as the spread of the coronavirus is being linked to their actions.  Healthy younger individuals are not worried about catching the virus, which mostly kills older people with underlying health concerns.  Yet health officials warn that young people contracting the virus could cause health problems for others. (KOMO News)

The owner of a Wenatchee business has co-launched an initiative campaign to reduce the emergency powers of the governor.  Michael McKee is leading an effort to collect over 300,000 signatures by the end of the year.  The initiative would limit the Governor’s powers to 14 days.  After that, the legislature would need to approve extending the order.  McKee said, “We feel that Governor Inslee has just abused the power that was given to him.” If successful in gathering the required signatures, the initiative would go to the state legislature, which can approve it, deny it, or place it on the 2021 ballot. (Wenatchee World)

Leavenworth mayor is flattered by a Forbes article that encouraged Americans to travel to his city, yet he does not want his town to be responsible for continuing to spread the virus.  Mayor Carl Florea said, “Unfortunately, the Forbes article encourages the kind of long-distance travel and mixing that will only delay our getting control of this pandemic, and getting that control is in the long-term interests of all of us who will be here to welcome guests from anywhere and everywhere when the time is right.” Leavenworth is in Chelan County and is still in a modified Phase I because the county continues to have one of the highest rates of infection in the country. (iFIBER One)

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