In a bombshell letter, the father of Democrat legislative candidate Clyde Shavers states that his son and his campaign have been untruthful about many aspects of his life including his military service, where he lives (not in the district) and the facts of his mother’s immigration to the United States from Japan.  Clyde Shavers is running in a very hotly contested State House race in the 10^th Legislative District (Island County [including Naval Air Station Whidbey], Southwest Skagit County, and Northwest Snohomish County) against first-term Republican Representative Greg Gilday.  Candidate Shavers’ father, Brett Shaver, said he repeatedly encouraged his son to be truthful about the facts, but since the campaign continued to make untruthful statements he felt compelled to “write this (letter) only to correct the record and personally as a matter of integrity.” If you read it, you will see how low the Democrat Party has slipped this year. (Click to read full Shift Article)

The 11 Democrat state legislators involved in events which have drawn an ethics complaint for illegal use of public resources have refused to respond to media inquiries into their actions.  The ethics complaint stems from two media events held on state property and coordinated by state employees (members of Governor Inslee’s office).  The events were decisively partisan and even encouraged voter support in the general election.  It is illegal for taxpayer funds to be used for partisan political activities.

The national Center Square news organization attempted to contact each of the 11 Democrat legislators who took part in the pro-abortion events to obtain their views on the ethics complaint.  Not one of the Democrats responded to the inquiry. Democrat Senators Manka Dhingra, Liz Lovelett, Emily Randall, and June Robinson and Democrat Representatives Jessica Bateman, Debra Lekanoff, Alex Ramel, Alicia Rule, Sharon Shewmake, Vandana Slatter, and My-Linh Thai each attended either the June event in Olympia on the Washington State Capital Campus or the October event on the Bellingham campus of Western Washington University.

Evidently the Democrat lawmakers believe the public doesn’t deserve to know why they took part in partisan political events which were illegally organized with taxpayer funds.  This might be because many of the legislators are involved in very tight election battles.  We did find it interesting that the Democrat Senate Caucus communication staff chose to mention the state’s election year restrictions for why they could not respond to the media inquiry since allegedly the Democrat legislators chose to ignore the same election year restrictions to participate in the questionable events. (The Center Square and Shift Article)

A Harvard and Stanford study found that because Governor Inslee prohibited in-person education and several district teachers unions selfishly kept students out of school even longer, the average Washington State student lost nearly one school year of learning in math and approximately a half year in reading.  The study compared current test scores found in the 2022 Nation’s Report Card to those in 2019.  The study found that Governor Inslee keeping our schools closed hurt lower income students the most.  Nationwide the study found that schools that denied in-person education for a longer period of time experienced the biggest drop in test scores. (The Center Square and 2022 Nation’s Report Card)

An October 20^th ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court will allow litigants in a civil trial to receive a hearing to determine if a jury’s decision was influenced by racial bias, and the other side will need to prove that prejudice did not impact the verdict.  The court’s ruling comes from a lawsuit filed by a Black woman against a white women over injuries from a rear-end car accident in which the plaintiff sought $3.5 for her injuries and treatments. The all-white jury awarded her $9,200. The plaintiff alleges that racial bias by the judge, jury, and the defense attorney caused the low financial award. (Legal Newsline)

In a very unusual move, the Everett Herald announced this afternoon that it was changing its endorsement in the State House of Representative’s contest between Democrat Clyde Shavers and Republican Representative Greg Gilday.  The paper said that it will now endorse Gilday after it previously endorsed Shavers.  The editorial states that the paper made this change because of new information (broken by Shift yesterday) that showed that Shavers was untruthful about his past.  Shift will have more on this story tomorrow. (Everett Herald and Shift)

The threat to have a car stolen in Washington State is so strong that a vehicle belonging to a patient’s family was stolen from the garage at Children’s Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle’s Sand Point neighborhood.  The stolen vehicle belongs to the parents of a young boy who went through brain surgery just hours before the car was stolen.

Democrat state legislators refusal to fix their legislation which severely restricts the police from pursuing criminal suspects (even if it is known they are driving a stolen vehicle) and the Seattle City Council caving into the anti-police demands of liberal rioters (resulting in more than 400 officers leaving the police department) has led to criminals being more brazen in their car stealing endeavors, especially in Seattle.  This has led to a record breaking number of car thefts.

The mother of the hospitalized child said, “I don’t know who goes to a children’s hospital, especially one of the biggest ones, and steals from a family. They had to have seen our car seat, baby toys and everything and still decided to take our car.”  A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the family. (MyNorthwest, The Center Square, and GoFundMe)

Violent crime continues to surge in King County despite it reducing in most urban areas around the country. There were 1246 shots fired incidents during the first nine months of 2022 according to a report from the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. There were 1036 incidents during the same period in 2021 and 1,025 in ALL OF 2020 and 856 in ALL OF 2019. (Seattle Times)

The Book Launch for “Time to Think Small” by our friend Todd Myers is occurring this (Tuesday) evening at Bake’s Place Bar & Bistro in Bellevue (155 108th Avenue NE Suite 110).  The event will run from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.  The book outlines why large government environmental policies nearly always fail to achieve their stated goals and how technological innovations provide far better results because they provide the induvial with the ability to perform environmentally friendly actions. (Book Launch details and Shift Guest Column)

Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said plans are moving forward to clean up  “Camp Hope” and get the people the help they need despite lawsuits filed on behalf of three residents of the large homeless encampment the Inslee Administration has allowed to grow on state property.   The sheriff said, “This is a mess created by the state. My job is to stop crime in the neighborhood and get people in that camp into safe, dry and clean housing – and on a track to move into permanent housing.” Sheriff Knezovich said there appears to be a coordinated effort to keep homeless individuals to stay in the encampment with the false promise of moving into a tiny house. The sheriff said the homes are not the well-constructed small complete residences promised to encampment residents, but they are actually flimsy “pallet homes” which are not suitable for Spokane’s winter weather. (The Center Square)

The Center for the American Experiment and the Washington Policy Center released a joint study which determined that it would cost $34.3 billion to replace the energy created by the four Snake River dams.  The study determined that just to replace the reliable and clean hydroelectric energy created by the dams with wind and solar power, it would cost the average ratepayer $330 a year.  A spokesperson for the American Experiment concluded, “Tearing these dams down is a senseless destruction of critical infrastructure that will increase electricity costs for everyone.” (American Experiment media release)

Todd Myers, Director of the Center for the Environment at the Washington Policy Center, has authored his second book, Time to Think Small (November 1 release date) examining the failures of large (and often very expensive) government climate initiatives and how collective use of technology will solve many of the environmental challenges which government cannot.  We asked Myers to give Shift readers some insight from his latest book and briefly explain how the use of technological innovation is already solving many environmental problems. Myers outlines how government banning plastic grocery bags does very little to solve issues related to plastic waste in the ocean, yet two different projects using technology are effective in removing destructive materials from our waterways. (Please click to read full guest column)

Now that Elon Musk has finally taken control of Twitter, many moderates and conservatives are becoming more active on the social media site.  If you are considering using Twitter as one of your information platforms, we hope that you will consider following Shift. (Associated Press and Shift Twitter Account)

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