WILL SEATTLE VOTERS THROW OUT FLIP-FLOPPING COUNCILMEMBER ANDREW LEWIS?
INCREASING DRUG DEATHS, OVERDOSES DON’T SEEM TO MATTER TO FIRST-TERM LIBERAL UP FOR RE-ELECTION
Shift has reported in the past how Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis has a tendency to promise one thing to get something he wants, then doing the opposite of what he promised when he has the opportunity to please another far-Left audience. That was on display in the last city council meeting, when Councilmember Lewis decided to shorten his political career by voting his alleged conscience to legalize drugs in Seattle, and make sure the city would not punish anyone for smoking their recreational fentanyl in public. You can read more of the sorry tale of the sorry councilmember here… Shift WA.
JAY INSLEE’S PENNIES KEEP ADDING UP – 46 CENTS AND COUNTING
Everybody (like Shift) who was telling the truth about the state’s new cap-and-trade tax program predicted when the Democrats jammed it through the legislature that it would result in big increases in fuel costs. The program’s biggest cheerleaders, from Governor Jay Inslee on down, denied any such thing, with the governor insisting any gas price increase would be “pennies”. Those pennies are adding up quick, according to Center Square, which reports that the “second quarterly auction of emissions allowances under the cap-and-trade program saw a 60% increase in money raised from $300 million to $480.5 million.”
By “money raised” the state means taken from the pockets of consumers, as the costs of complying with this new partisan scheme don’t just magically disappear, Econ 101 tells us they get passed along. The state won’t admit it yet, but “Washington Policy Center Environmental Director Todd Myers wrote in a blog post that as a result of the latest auction, the program had added a total of $.45 cents per gallon to the price of gas and $.54 per gallon to the price of diesel.” You can read more about how “(A)s long as the governor and agency staff continue to deny that reality, Washington residents will pay a high price for energy, but won’t receive the environmental benefits they are paying for” here… Shift, Center Square.
SPOKANE MAYOR TELLS COUNCIL TO BACK OFF MICRO-MANAGING
You might think that the Spokane City Council would not welcome any comparisons to its fellow elected body of dysfunctional partisans in Seattle, but the liberal majority on the council doesn’t seem to be acting that way. At least that’s what can be gleaned from the Spokesman-Review’s coverage of what Mayor Nadine Woodward calls “a pattern that we’ve seen with this council, that is continually chipping away at my authority as an executive when it comes to the operations of the city.”
One might understand the council being so pushy if there was a record of success to point to, but instead it appears to be mainly a tantrum aimed at voters. You can read more about how this “is just the latest example of the City Council’s left-leaning supermajority trying to usurp the powers of the strong mayor approved by voters in 2001” here… Spokesman-Review.
WHAT MATTERS MORE TO NORTHSHORE SCHOOL OFFICIALS – ALL STUDENTS, OR ONE FAMILY?
The facts behind the scandal engulfing Northshore School District (Bothell/Woodinville) administrators are the stuff of tabloids – school principals, cocaine, and loaded weapons, as Shift has noted. But what’s emerging now is a sadder story, of school officials keeping the public in the dark about these very facts while keeping quiet about the story, as FOX 13 reports one parent saying “they chose to protect the family of the principal versus the safety of our kids.”
It appears that this week’s meeting between district officials and parents at one of the impacted elementary schools only came about after “parents had done their own sleuthing—an extreme protection order that took away Michael Griffin’s guns had a written statement from his wife (which) admitted that the couple had been using drugs for the past year.” You can read how that “sleuthing” resulted in the second principal going on paid leave here… Shift, FOX 13.
REMEMBER KING COUNTY METRO FAILURES THE NEXT TIME TRANSIT WANTS YOUR WALLET
It turns out that public transit is not as important as they say during tax-raising campaigns, at least not important enough for King County’s many bureaucrats to prioritize hiring enough drivers, or at least that’s the story behind a Seattle Times story on Metro Transit’s news of “suspending six lines starting Monday, due to a shortage of bus drivers, maintenance teams and supplies.”
Of course, one lipstick-on-the-pig applier did explain that “We’re still delivering 95% of the service”, though there was no offer to refund the tax dollars already collected for 100% of the service. You can read more about the failing system carrying only “58% of April 2019 pre-pandemic ridership” here… Seattle Times.
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