The online headline today from the Seattle Times captured a truth about the region’s most expensive transit agency which could often be repeated, namely that the “(L)ight rail mess is worse than Sound Transit warned”. This time the bureaucrats’ admission of reality comes after emergency repair work which, “although Sound Transit scheduled the work months in advance, ‘I don’t think we anticipated the crowds to have that much impact on schedules” was the best a spokesperson could spout about why train schedules were blown up once repair work started over the MLK holiday.

Sound Transit’s flak didn’t improve feelings about the agency, further admitting “(W)hat we hope is that as people adjust to the new travel pattern, things will sort themselves out”, and if that doesn’t work, he “suggests people switch to buses”. Read on to see why there is no solution to the sinking disaster that is the taxpayer-sucking Sound Transit, which Shift has covered in depth, here… Seattle Times, Shift.

The Democrats determined to evict the first Latina Republican elected in Eastern Washington have now filed five maps with a judge in Seattle to try and push State Senator Nikki Torres out of the legislature. Unfortunately that’s not the story being told, as Democrat activists have convinced mainstream media outlets like Crosscut that this case is about how the state’s bi-partisan re-districting commission “diluted Latino votes and deprived them of an opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice,” by drawing a district won by a Republican Latina.

The essence of the Democrats’ lawsuit is that a majority-minority district is not drawn fairly unless a Democrat wins the district, because Democrats are the only ones who can fairly represent Hispanic communities. Read on to see more blatant racism by Democrats here… Crosscut. 

Questioning the motives of Attorney General Bob Ferguson is generally not allowed around his office, as the very thin-skinned politician is known for freezing out any who cross him. Perhaps that’s why the Seattle Times assigned a business reporter to figure out why the camera-hound AG filed a major lawsuit on a holiday, to avoid making it a political story.

Of course, any story about Bob Ferguson is a political story, with one reader capturing the truth in full by noting “it’s just Ferguson rattling his cage for attention, for his base.”

From the business reporter perspective, “the timing of Monday’s suit is raising questions about the legal strategy of state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who is running for governor,” because the biggest beneficiary of his lawsuit would be labor unions who just happen to be the biggest campaign donors for Ferguson and his fellow Democrats. You can read more about this virtuous circle and laugh at Ferguson’s spokesperson actually saying “We file cases when they’re ready,” when she wasn’t even ready to answer questions about this rushed grandstanding case until the next day here… Seattle Times.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrats. That’s certainly clear from KIRO’s coverage of the latest legislative circus featuring the far Left’s favorite, State Senator/King County Exec wannabe Joe Nguyen, with KIRO Newsradio featuring the Democrats launch of their “first public hearing on Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s plan to compel oil and gas companies to be transparent with their prices,” while continuing to deny their carbon tax is the cause of gas price spikes in our state.

While the Democrats provided the sideshow, someone actually paying their new tax provided the reality that last year his “company paid as much as 70 cents per gallon” on the carbon tax. Read in a related Capital Press story about this new proposal that Washington Democrats “did learn a lot from our partners in California, so this is modeled after work done down there,” according to Sen. Nguyen, because California copying always works out so well here… KIRO Newsradio, Capital Press.

A columnist for Spokane’s Spokesman-Review provides a perspective not seen as much on the West side by actually comparing what Gov. Jay Inslee says with what has actually happened under his watch. By doing that Sue Lani Madsen is able to note that, despite Gov. Inslee’s claims in his final state of the state speech, “the state of the state is not No. 1.”

Madsen does capture a few of the highlights Gov. Inslee did not attribute to his leadership, such as “(T)raffic deaths are at a 20-year peak, the homeless population count is at an all time high and grew at rate of 11% per year, our estimated shortfall in housing is over a quarter of a million of new housing units, and student achievement scores are abysmal on OSPI’s annual report card on our public school system.” You can read on to see if you agree more with the response from GOP State Senator Nikki Torres, that “(U)nder one party rule in Olympia our state has become less safe, less affordable and in far too many ways we are failing our children” here… Spokesman-Review.

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