The Democrats who control King County are certainly having trouble figuring out how best to convince voters to raise regressive taxes on themselves (for the third time since 2000) for a transit system … [Read more...]
News you can use: Socialists try to muscle Mayor Murray
The Seattle Times let readers know today that Kshama Sawant Socialists and SEIU 995NW are confident enough in their power over the city’s liberal voters to try to blackmail Mayor Ed Murray and the … [Read more...]
News you can use: Democrats oppose spending more for education, period
Now that the bi-partisan Majority Coalition Caucus in the State Senate has started moving forward with its plan for increasing education funding, as required by the Supreme Court after decades of … [Read more...]
News you can use: Democrats want to welcome another secret money activist into their State Senate caucus
Leading Democrats couldn’t run fast enough to get in line to support Pramila Jayapal for the State Senate coming open next year with the retirement of the 37th District’s Adam Kline. Jayapal’s effort … [Read more...]
House Democrats step up… to fund the teachers union
Speaker Frank Chopp’s control over his minions in the state House of Representatives is legendary among Olympia observers. And in passing his Democrat-only budget last week, he demonstrated his … [Read more...]
News you can use: Union says Obamacare will make income inequality worse
It’s one thing for Republicans to point out the (many) faults of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. But when one of the most militant labor unions in the country starts piling on –in Senate … [Read more...]
News you can use: Sen. Eide manages to give herself credit, for lying
Tracey Eide is one of the most endangered State Senate incumbents on the ballot this fall, now that former Democrat Representative Mark Miloscia has switched parties to challenge Eide as a Republican … [Read more...]
News you can use: Harry Reid attacks labor’s big-money influence, sort of
It’s not every day that Senator Harry Reid is willing to stand up for the truth, and attack the corrupting influence of big labor money on his own political party – and that day still has not come, … [Read more...]
News you can use: Liberal plot revealed – force people out of cars by making ‘driving unappealing’
Republicans are often accused of believing there is a Democrat conspiracy around every corner. Yet, every once in awhile a liberal gets a little too smug, and actually tells the truth about just such … [Read more...]
Inslee ‘secret sauce’ runs dry, may have to make a decision
The issue has been simmering since long before the legislative session with barely a peep from the Governor. Would the state make a simple change in state law – change one word from “can” to “must” - … [Read more...]
News you can use: This just in: survey finds Democrats too liberal for rest of country, but evidently not liberal enough for Seattle
In a story that didn’t make it from the Washington Post to this coast, the former director of both the Gallup Organization and the Pew Research Center has bad news for the Democrats – they are too … [Read more...]
News you can use: Socialist Sanders for President, does that mean Sawant for VP?
From the never-never land that is Washington D.C. comes news that Vermont Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is “prepared” to run for President. Whether anybody else is prepared for him to run is an … [Read more...]