The spin machine has revved into high gear at the Sound Transit campaign to pass the state’s largest-ever tax increase for the $54-billion-dollar boondoggle known as Regional Proposition 1 (or ST3). … [Read more...]
Democrats and dark money – match made in hypocrisy heaven
The Seattle Times features a front page story today on so-called “gray money”, or campaign contributions which flow from one political committee to another in an attempt to obscure the real source of … [Read more...]
Former Chief Justice says income tax unconstitutional – but that won’t stop the liberals!
Shift has repeatedly pointed out (here and here) that the City of Olympia’s income tax initiative this fall is primarily a liberal test case for overturning the state’s 80-year-old ban on a state … [Read more...]
Sound Transit: Fooling with the numbers
Sound Transit bureaucrats know they face an uphill task trying to convince the voters of the region to pass the largest tax increase in state history – a minimum of $54 billion – to spend at least 25 … [Read more...]
Wikigate: Will Clinton’s embarrassing emails ever end?
The national press seems to be quite enamored with the ongoing train wreck that is the Donald Trump campaign, and it certainly is news when embarrassing private statements from a major presidential … [Read more...]
Breaking the law, lying to law enforcement – just government work
Evidently ruining a river and then trying to cover it up by lying to investigators is OK by the Obama Administration – as long as you didn’t really mean to. That’s the lesson learned from the … [Read more...]
Traffic congestion’s bad – but Inslee doesn’t want to talk about it
Anyone who has tried to drive around the Puget Sound area understands that traffic congestion has gotten worse in recent years. Perhaps that is why Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant has … [Read more...]
Seattle libs come to the rescue – in Vancouver
Former State Representative Tim Probst is having a hard time returning to the legislature. First, he lost a race to move up to the Senate in 2012. Fortunately his Democrat friends found him a cushy, … [Read more...]
The best WA campaign finance reform – that out-of-state donors can buy
Last week, Shift highlighted how an out-of-state liberal network had funded the Seattle campaign “reform”: effort in 2015, and how the same donors are involved in this year’s statewide initiative to … [Read more...]
Inslee’s education funding grade – an F
Jay Inslee has been running for governor ever since the state Supreme Court handed down its McCleary decision in 2012, finding that the state was not fulfilling its constitutional duty of funding … [Read more...]
Inslee debate “highlights”: jokes about child abuse, lies about taxes
It has taken us awhile at Shift to recover from Jay Inslee’s “performance” in Monday’s gubernatorial debate. In fact, we took yesterday off from publishing anything about the debate, to see if the … [Read more...]
Democrats behaving badly, part 346
Shift has occasionally highlighted when Democrats get very personal in their campaign attacks – against other Democrats. The First Legislative District Senate race featuring sometimes Democrat Guy … [Read more...]