Last week Jay Inslee decided to get back into the business of governing – sort of – after spending only eight hours on the job during the previous week in the middle of August. However, it’s hard to … [Read more...]
King County official creates transit straw men, knocks them down
Fred Jarrett has been many things in his career – Republican and Democrat, winning and losing candidate, elected official and appointed bureaucrat. Now that he is at that final stage after losing his … [Read more...]
Jayapal to make sure that Seattle sends a Sanders-Sawant Socialist – who ‘respects’ Colin Kaepernick! – to Congress!
Seattle has long been burdened with having one of the most liberal members of Congress in Jim McDermott. While some would consider that kind of representation a blessing, McDermott has been so … [Read more...]
Unions put pressure on Inslee for raises in secret negotiations
Anyone driving by the state capitol campus this week has seen the signs on the main lawn announcing a “rally for raises” for state employees. Unfortunately that is about all that anyone other than the … [Read more...]
Sound Transit hit with another PDC complaint
Just when the Sound Transit bureaucrats thought an apology would excuse them for violating public disclosure rules by giving personal email addresses to the campaign pushing their $54 billion dollar … [Read more...]
Liberals just can’t help themselves – they really want a state income tax
Democrats seem to have an addiction in Washington State. They just can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to a state income tax. Jay Inslee proposed one on capital gains two years ago (even after … [Read more...]
Another week, another Sound Transit scandal
The bureaucrats running Sound Transit are finding out that when you demand the biggest tax increase in state history – some $54 billion dollars – that some people might ask what you’ve been doing with … [Read more...]
Friday Funny – the College Conservative edition
Normally Shift shares Jay Inslee’s weekly calendar as our Friday Funny, since the inside look at how our “green governor” spends his time (and what he does to deserve his taxpayer-funded paycheck for … [Read more...]
Inslee finally forced to face record – no wonder he hates debates
Governor Jay Inslee had to face questions from someone who wasn’t at one of his many fundraisers for the first time in months, and it did not go well at yesterday’s campaign debate. Bill Bryant kept … [Read more...]
Truth breaks out at min wage event, but quickly shut down
The liberals being used as fronts for organized labor in the debate over a statewide minimum wage initiative were quite surprised at their own press conference yesterday, when the job-killing truth … [Read more...]
Sound Transit’s tough week – Democrat and environmental opposition surfaces
Shift took last week off, but the critics of Sound Transit and its massive tax plan for its latest ballot initiative - ST3 – did not. Of particular note was the scathing review by Democrat State … [Read more...]
We’ll be right back…
With the primary in the rear view mirror and many government agencies using the August lull to do even less work than usual, we here at Shift need a breather, too. So, we’ll be taking this week … [Read more...]