Jay Inslee broke the trust of his own party members when he destroyed the “grand bargain,” a deal reached by state lawmakers that tied implementation of his Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and cap-and-tax schemes to the legislature passing a new transportation package. His line-item veto eliminating the contingency surprised many members of his own party.
Democrat lawmakers may be surprised over Inslee’s betrayal, but voters have long experienced the sting of broken trust. The real question is…