Shift’s Newsmaker Interview is with Carmen Goers, a community activist, commercial lending officer, and Republican candidate for the open 47^th Legislative District House seat.  Goers has long been a community leader and was honored last year by the King County Council for her community service with the MLK Medal of Distinguished Service award.  Goers announced in January that she was running against Democrat House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan, who despite raising more than $25,000 in the weeks prior to the start of the legislature, suddenly chickened out last month by stating he would not face the voters for re-election this fall.

Goers hopes to bring her extensive community service experience and financial knowledge to the legislature.  Like most of the South King County residents she hopes to serve, Goers is very concerned about the significant increase in crime since the passage of the Democrat’s anti-police legislation. In her interview, Goers describes the importance of listening to police officials when developing public safety legislation, her strong belief in providing educational opportunities, and how she would have supported tax relief for Washington residents with the $15 billion in surplus tax revenue which Democrats used instead to make state government even larger and permanently more expensive. (Click to read full Newsmaker Interview)

Just a reminder that while April 15^th is normally federal tax paying day, every day is tax wasting day for Governor Jay Inslee and his legislative Democrats. Look at how they are using some of your tax dollars to help prop up their disastrous Long-Term Care payroll tax (“WA Cares”) to help incumbent Democrat legislators who must defend the union-inspired tax to voters this fall.  The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services will be spending at least $1.6 million funding a marketing campaign to three specific targeted audiences (55-65 year old workers, women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community) just as ballots are hitting mailboxes in August. Is it a coincidence that 55-65 year old voters have the highest voter turnout rates of any population segment?  Is it any coincidence that polls are showing Democrats are losing women voters in droves (especially in the important swing suburban districts) because of their failed public safety, homelessness, inflation, and education policies?  We can consider this money as simply a large political extraction from the Washington taxpayers to the campaigns of many very nervous Democrat incumbent legislators. (Click to read full Shift Article)

The White House announced that President Joe Biden will be traveling to Washington State next Friday.  While details of the visit are not publicly known, the White House’s statement said the president will be here “to discuss his Administration’s efforts to continue bringing down costs for American families and growing our clean energy economy.”  This will be quite the trick if the president can do that since Washington State residents will soon be paying approximately a dollar more for gallon for gas when Governor Inslee’s Cap & Tax and LCFS policies take effect starting later this year. Then they will have to pay even more for groceries and other necessities as the result of higher transportation costs. And when citizens asked for some tax relief as the result of these increases, Jay Inslee and his fellow Democrats in Olympia ignored their pleas and decided instead to spend $15 billion in surplus tax revenue not on tax relief for people in need, but on their own selfish priorities to permanently increase the size and cost of state government.

A couple of questions jump to mind about the president’s visit to Seattle.  Will King County and the City of Seattle suddenly remove the many homeless encampments which will be along the motorcade’s travel route?  Will any of the nervous incumbent Democrats running for re-election in 2022 be willing to be seen on the same stage as President Biden and his plunging approval ratings? If Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson is involved in the events, will he demand that all national media in attendance “Show proof of full vaccination and booster” and “Complete a wellness screening”, as he did to those who attended his local media event earlier this week? (Seattle Times and Attorney General Office media release)

Republican Representative Brandon Vick announced he will be retiring from the Washington State Legislature.  The five-term representative said, “I’ve always viewed elected office as a public service, not a career path, and I believe it’s time for me to transition back into the private sector and let someone else take the reins. When I was first elected, my wife and I were proud parents of a newborn baby girl. That baby girl is now almost 10, and that sure puts things into perspective.” Representative Vick is from Vancouver and the 18^th Legislative District encompasses much of Northeast Clark County. (Republican House Caucus media release and 18^th LD Map)

National data reveals that an overwhelming majority of families who switched to homeschooling at the beginning of the COVID pandemic have continued to keep teaching their children at home even after nearly all states have lifted COVID-related restrictions.  When schools across the nation switched to remote learning in March of 2020, the number of U.S. students being homeschooled jumped 63%.  And now that schools are back to in-person instruction, the number of homeschoolers dropped by only 17%.  This has obviously impacted the number of students in public schools and the amount of federal funding sent to states, and the amount states send to school districts, because funding is based on enrollment figures. (Seattle Times/AP)

Reporter Jonathan Choe obtained a quick interview with Seattle City Councilmember Lisa Herbold on what she believes needs to be done to reduce the crime her policies have caused to skyrocket, many of which surround the city’s plethora of homeless encampments. Councilmember Herbold has received a great deal of public criticism over her radical liberal policies as the chair of the city council’s Public Safety and Human Services Committee (including “defunding” the police department) which have led to a very significant increase in violent crimes in the city and have allowed homeless encampments to take over Seattle’s neighborhood parks and sidewalks.

When asked by Choe what she believes needs to be done to reduce the crime associated with the encampments, Herbold replied, “It would be really great if we could find a way to invest in more alternatives and more engagement in programs.”  Translation, “We need to waste even more taxpayer money and make city government even larger by using the homelessness crisis in Seattle as our excuse.  Despite the city, county, state, and federal government spending billions of tax dollars on homelessness issues since former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine declared homelessness an “emergency” in 2015, we don’t feel the need to change our liberal policies which have made the problems even worse than they were seven years ago.” (Jonathan Choe Twitter and King County Executive Office’s media release)

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell successfully dodged a reporter’s question when he was asked if Seattle is safe. The mayor paused and then finally said, “Seattle is on a trajectory to be one of the safest cities in this country, and I’ll make sure of that. That’s why I got elected.”  Yet after nearly four months in office, the mayor has yet to release a plan on how he will keep his campaign promises to make Seattle a safer place to live.  He told another reporter last week that he is still needs to “study the city” further before letting everyone know his plan.  The mayor was responding to a Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce poll in which 73% of Seattle residents said the city is less safe today then it was two years ago. (Q13 Fox News, Seattle Times, and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce poll)

Car thefts have jumped an incredible 412% in the City of Kennewick since the implementation of the Democrats’ anti-police legislation during the 2021 legislative session.  It is even worse when comparing just March of 2021 to March of 2022, as there has been a whopping 933% jump (from nine stolen vehicles last year to 84 this year.)  (KNDO/KNDU News)

Babylon Bee Friday

Conservative Satire to start the weekend

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