The last time that the public saw Seattle City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant inside of a police station, she was in handcuffs, as Shift reported almost two years ago. This time she returned with numbers, … [Read more...]
AG Ferguson kicks off campaign…for Governor
Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who is cruising to re-election against a Libertarian opponent since no Republican filed to challenge him, has been all over the news this week in what is his apparent … [Read more...]
Ice cream wars – over minimum wage
The unions of the Washington State Labor Council who paid to get an initiative raising the statewide minimum wage by 40% on the ballot this fall like to use public faces that don’t reflect the big … [Read more...]
Income tax advocates embarrassed to call it an income tax
Shift has reported several times, most recently here and here, about the fight by liberal activists to create an income tax in Olympia. Their stated goal is to help students pay for college, but even … [Read more...]
Gonzaga commits foul, hires anti-First Amendment professor
Gonzaga has built a well-deserved basketball reputation over the last 20 years, and that has raised the academic prominence of the Spokane-based Jesuit school as well. However, the administration just … [Read more...]
It gets ugly… when Democrats attack Democrats
One of the most contested Democrat legislative primaries in August happened in the First District, which straddles the King-Snohomish County line. State Representative Luis Moscoso was trying move up … [Read more...]
Inslee panders to donors, ignores existing law
Our “green” governor Jay Inslee does a lot of outreach to his campaign supporters – mainly reaching for their wallets. In return, he willing to ignore little things, like existing state law, as he … [Read more...]
Income tax is back…on ballot
Jay Inslee and his fellow Democrat Party officials have been persistent in trying to find a way to create a state income tax, ranging from Inslee’s 2015 proposal to tax capital gains to the various … [Read more...]
Media gives attention to enviros who want to ‘dismantle civilization’
Sometimes the media fall for stunts that are only intended to give far-out fringe groups attention that they would not normally merit otherwise, without actually pointing out how extreme the group is … [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...]
Dem party official wants Seattle’s homeless put on an “island”
There is perhaps nothing worse for a Democrat than to be compared to Donald Trump. Yet, that is the fallout from the King County Democrats’ vice chair, Omaha Sternberg, suggesting on KIRO radio that … [Read more...]
Leading Dem thinks party’s holy grail – socialized medicine – is “inevitable”
Just as a state income tax is the holy grail for Washington State Democrats, a guiding principle according to their platform, so too is government-run healthcare – socialized medicine – for national … [Read more...]