The Democrat Party, its allies, and generally anyone who has communicated with party officials must be quite nervous about what will next become public in the growing email hacking scandal that has … [Read more...]
Negotiations yield big $$$ for unions, is Inslee next in line for cash?
The secret negotiations between Jay Inslee and the state employee unions were successfully concluded yesterday – if your definition of success is “the largest compensation package since the start of … [Read more...]
Sound Transit ready for kickoff, hold on to your wallet
You might have thought that Sound Transit had already started its fall campaign to take $54 billion out of taxpayers’ wallets to expand light rail in a vote this November. After all, the agency … [Read more...]
Voters in 41st want Litzow, so labor recruits outsiders to help Dem
The efforts by Jay Inslee and his Democrat allies to use outside influences to try and take back a State Senate majority are well known, perhaps most dramatically in the failure of California … [Read more...]
Inslee begging tour continues
Shift reported last week about how Jay Inslee’s schedule has been wearing him out, so much that he took a week off just before Labor Day. The vacation week came after two months of heavy duty with … [Read more...]
Liberals ‘Like’ $20 million from Facebook
Evidently California hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer has created a wannabe follower in the Silicon Valley, based on a story from the New York Times this weekend. Turns out that Facebook co-founder … [Read more...]
Tom Steyer puts his hypocrisy on parade (again)
California hedge-fund billionaire – and Jay Inslee best friend – Tom Steyer is back in the news in his home state, as he readies himself for a run for governor in two years. However, the attention he … [Read more...]
The begging continues: Inslee struggling to raise dollars from small donors
Shift has previously told you about Jay Inslee’s frantic approach to month-end fundraising. First he creates a false bogeyman (like the Koch Brothers, or Republican Governors Association), then he … [Read more...]
Setbacks keep coming for Sound Transit’s bloated tax package
Yet another blow to Sound Transit’s scheme for fleecing taxpayers out of $54 billion hit the troubled agency today, with the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce voting to oppose voting to oppose the … [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...]
Liberals want your tax dollars – for their campaigns
It is saying something when one of the expensive liberal initiatives on this fall’s ballot is such bad public policy that it stands above the others in earning public scorn. And among the … [Read more...]
Liberal big money corrupts even Bernie Sanders, evidently
It was an outcome you wouldn’t have expected from the Bernie Sanders revolution. As reported by Fox News – “Even before Bernie Sanders could roll out a new organization to fund progressive candidates … [Read more...]