Shift is using the last week of 2016 to review the lumps of coal which Jay Inslee put in the stockings of Washington taxpayers at Christmas, in the form of his big-government, tax-and-spend … [Read more...]
A lump of Inslee coal in your stocking: A “bold” budget to fund bigger gov’t
For such a “green” governor, one might think that Jay Inslee would avoid some energy sources. But based on what Washington taxpayers found in their stockings - “hung by the chimney with care” - on … [Read more...]
State ready to bid high-flying Goldmark good riddance
Retiring politicians are often the subject of glowing retrospectives on their career, especially in the closing days of the year when investigative reporting is rare. However, this week political … [Read more...]
Why Medicaid expansion is not always a good thing
Here’s a story that should have received a bit more attention earlier this week, but since it involved a failure in Obamacare, evidently it wasn’t really news. But, if you’re one of those people who … [Read more...]
State and county corrections officials don’t cooperate
One of the biggest stories that played out during the year was the revelation that Jay Inslee’s Department of Corrections (DOC) had been letting prisoners out of jail early for years –as the Seattle … [Read more...]
Tell Inslee – even tax-happy Olympia voters reject an income tax
Seattle liberals thought they had found a sure-fire way to get a state income tax – pass one in a friendly city, and then watch the policy work its way through guaranteed legal challenges until it was … [Read more...]
Inslee tax hike push gaining national attention
Jay Inslee has often sought a national stage for his far-left ideas, from the environmental policy book/screed he “wrote” while in Congress that no one will buy, to the grandstanding Shift highlighted … [Read more...]
Reid goes out ripping – against Democrats
Republicans are used to the senseless raging of the Democrats Senate leader, Harry Reid of Nevada. Fortunately for civil discourse everywhere, he is retiring. However, Reid is trying to burnish his … [Read more...]
Media verdict in – Inslee tax hikes going nowhere, but at least he tried
Evidently mainstream media editorialists have decided that they will need access to newly re-elected Governor Jay Inslee. So, even though he spent months on the campaign trail saying he wouldn’t raise … [Read more...]
Is the Democrats’ biggest donor breaking the law?
For years the Democrat Party in Washington State has depended on the compulsory dues money of public employee union members to keep it afloat. The various unions that comprise the Washington … [Read more...]
Partisan hack Habib forgets his new job duties
State Senator Cyrus Habib ran a campaign for Lieutenant Governor that suggested he would be a fair, non-partisan presiding officer for the Senate, saying he wanted to “lead the State Senate in a more … [Read more...]
Campaign must be over – Inslee breaking tax promises again
Jay Inslee has made a habit out of campaigning against tax increases before elections, and then breaking those promises after the voters in Seattle elect him (he has lost the vote in 2012 and 2016 in … [Read more...]