Did Governor Jay Inslee’s 2019 slanderous comments about Boeing factor into the company’s decision to move 787 Dreamliner assembly jobs from Everett to the more business-friendly South Carolina?  In a desperate attempt to bolster his failing presidential campaign by appealing to the anti-business sentiment among far-Left activists, Governor Inslee selfishly decided to call the state’s largest employer “muggers” and “blackmailers” on national TV in March of 2019.  The move backfired.  Inslee failed to attract support for his campaign, and now Boeing announced it will move thousands of Washington State jobs to South Carolina.  Local Boeing workers will soon be unemployed, and many area businesses will be seriously hurt because their customers are gone.  Those are consequences of Governor Inslee’s words.  Governor Zero has failed again to put Washingtonians ahead of his own naked political ambition. (Shift)

We can call this “The Tale of Two States”, as Boeing confirmed reports that it will close its Everett 787 manufacturing facilities at the end of 2020, and consolidate the plane’s assembly in more business-friendly South Carolina. Instead of talking about ways to improve the state’s relationship with the large employer to ensure the jobs come back in the future, Governor Inslee decided to increase his anti-business rhetoric by indicating he wants to punish the company by “taking a hard look” at increasing the company’s taxes.  Evidently Governor Inslee wants to ensure that we will likely receive more bad news from the company in the future. Meanwhile in South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster is celebrating the arrival of more Boeing jobs when he stated, “South Carolina is open for business. We are committed to helping Boeing – and businesses large and small – grow and prosper in our state.” (Everett Herald and Live5News – WCSC)

The move by Boeing to consolidate 787 Dreamliner manufacturing in South Carolina will impact future tax revenues for the State of Washington.  The state’s recent September revenue forecast warned, “The potential consolidation of Boeing 787 production in South Carolina and resulting decline in Washington aerospace employment is also a major concern,” even while projecting revenue shortfall of $4.5 billion over the next 33 months. The state’s deficit legally obligates the governor to either reduce the state’s budget equally across-the-board or call a special session of the legislature, but Governor Inslee prefers breaking the law with his strategy of waiting until after the election to bring the legislators back to Olympia.  The governor and the Democrat legislative leadership know that their budget repair plan (to raise taxes to pay for an even bigger state budget than we have today) would be strongly opposed by the voters and would hurt Democrats in the November elections. (Washington Policy Center and Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast)

An Associated Press reporter attempted to blame conservative groups for the controversy surrounding the Democrats passing an extreme mandatory sex education bill on party-line votes, which launched the Referendum 90 campaign to repeal the Democrats’ action. Reporter Sally Ho, seemingly aiming to portray Democrat legislators as innocent bystanders to their own hyper-partisanship, opened her story on the referendum campaign by stating, “Democrats in the Washington state Legislature thought they had passed a routine sex education requirement for public schools earlier this year.” Perhaps Ms. Ko just moved to Washington State, and thus missed media coverage of the “Sex Ed for Kindergartners” push by Planned Parenthood through its Democrat surrogates in the state legislature. Her portrayal is completely incorrect, as Democrat lawmakers were very aware of the controversy while they were jamming the bill through. Media reports pointed out their phones were ringing off the hook and that legislators were receiving hundreds of emails from constituents opposing the bill.  The bill was the subject of prolonged partisan debates on the floor and was passed with only Democrat votes In both the House and the Senate.  Parent groups which represent a broad spectrum of members rose in opposition to this bill and a gathered record-breaking 266,000 signatures (despite government restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak) supporting a referendum on the bill.  It is clearly the legislation – and the way that Democrats jammed it through the legislature – that is controversial, and to portray Democrat legislators as naïve public servants is a weak attempt to rewrite history. (AP/Seattle Times)

Snohomish County Councilmember Megan Dunn has apologized for recklessly posting an image of a Molotov Cocktail with the slogan, “Be the light you want to see in the world.”  Due to many local incidents where Left-wing rioters have used the homemade incinerating device to attack law enforcement, the Everett Police union was offended by the councilmember’s social media post and had called for her resignation.  With Dunn’s apology, the police union has withdrawn its demand for her to resign, though many of her constituents would be happy not to be embarrassed by her further. (Everett Herald)

The long-delayed contract negotiations between the City of Seattle and the Seattle Police Officers Guild will certainly be lively and hard fought between the two parties.  Uncharacteristically, wages and benefits are not the central issues in the sessions.  City officials will be pushing for many reforms outlined by both a federal court ruling and by recent city council legislative actions.  Meanwhile the police union will have many issues of their own, mostly centered around the lack of support the officers have received from elected officials as they repeatedly have been physically attacked and have had their lives threatened by violent activists. The union will also express its disapproval of the city council refusing involvement from either police leadership or union representatives when it recently quickly passed “Defund the Police” reform measures and law enforcement budget cuts aimed to placate those in the streets who have created the violent conditions. (Crosscut)

Pierce County officials say that the recent daily increases in confirmed coronavirus cases could delay returning students school classrooms.  The county needs to stay below 75 cases per 100,000 residents for schools to reopen under Jay Inslee’s random rules, yet for the past two weeks there has been a steady increase in the number of cases which, if continued, could put the county above the threshold. (News Tribune)

The owner of the Kennewick Chuck E. Cheese pizza restaurant wrote a public letter to Governor Inslee, asking why other Chuck E. Cheese locations around the country (including in Oregon) have reopened “with no ramifications,” but he has not been allowed to open his franchise.  John Corbin closed his letter to the governor by stating, “On October 1^st, the payments on our property resume. The clock will then begin ticking on the ruination of another family business. Only you Governor Inslee can prevent this.” But, since Mr. Corbin is not likely a big campaign donor to the governor or the Democrat Party, his plea will likely fall on deaf ears. (YakTriNews)

Despite four years of public meetings, numerous public hearings, and abundant opportunities to provide written comments, environmental and tribal groups that support the removal of four Snake River dams believe they were not provided with sufficient opportunity to state their case before the federal government released its plan to improve the salmon population that passes through the dams.  The extreme Left from Seattle suffered a clear defeat when the federal government rationally determined that the dams would remain in place, but the green groups are indicating that they will continue to work to remove the dams.  Some are looking to file new lawsuits against the federal government, while other groups are working with governors to develop local approaches. The rest of us would prefer they go away and let Washington State continue to enjoy the lowest energy costs in the world thanks to our extensive (and clean energy) hydroelectric system. (Northwest News Network)

The City of Spokane is losing $1.4 million dollars a year on its recycling program, and officials don’t even know if the material is being recycled.  China revised its policies for buying international recyclable materials in 2018, and since then there has been an overabundance of supply in the market and the price has plummeted.  Spokane is not even sure where its allegedly recycled material ends up, and whether the program has any environmental value.  Some Spokane City Councilmembers want to add a monthly $2 surcharge to offset the costs of maintaining a program they do not understand, while Mayor Nadine Woodward supports reducing expenses by picking up recyclables every two weeks. (Spokesman-Review)

In a fundraising email, Washington State Democrat Party Chair Tina Podlodowski made this bizarre comment, “I’ve never been more proud of the Democrats fighting to protect this state, its people, and our rights.”  Podlodowski made this statement despite not one statewide Democrat elected official or member of Congress standing up for – or “fighting to protect” – the Seattle police officers who were being physically assaulted or even when other officers faced attempted murder by rioters who set fire to a police precinct while trying to seal the exit doors.  Alas, no statewide Democrat official or member of Congress would even stand by the Democrat Seattle Mayor (or the city’s first Black woman police chief) when the Democrat members of the Seattle City Council slashed the police budget and wanted to hand out that money to liberal special interest “community groups.”  It is safe to say (and public opinion polls confirm), that most Washington residents don’t feel these actions have “protected this state, its people, and our rights.”  And if slashing the police budget and not supporting police officers is something worth being proud about, why haven’t Democrat statewide elected officials or members of Congress come out with statements supporting these actions? Evidently, watching Democrats hiding out until after the election makes Tina P. proud. (Washington State Democrat Party email)

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