Remember only a few months ago when Governor Jay Inslee said he was against vaccine passports? That was around the time he falsely claimed his leadership had “won the Super Bowl” against COVID. Now, it seems that on a weekly basis he is mandating vaccine passports in more and more locations. Every time he schedules a press conference, Washington State residents wonder what freedom he will unilaterally take from them this time. At his photo op yesterday he announced that the science this week (which is apparently different from the science in previous weeks) indicates that anyone attending an event, inside with more than 1,000 people and outside with more than 10,000 people, must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test taken in the previous 72 hours.

Apparently the science is different in auditoriums and stadiums on K-12 school premises and in museums, shopping malls, and stores where the vaccine requirements have not been mandated (yet).

Remember when the governor kept stating that the science said we need to get 70% of the state’s population over 18 vaccinated with at least one shot? Now that over 77% of those over 12 are FULLY vaccinated, the governor says the science states we still need to more.  It’s almost like he thinks vaccination rates are like taxes – they need to be higher!

The only positive aspect to Governor Inslee’s changing requirements is thank goodness the governor did not become a science teacher, for the answers on his tests would change on a weekly basis. (Seattle P-I/MSN, Brandi Kruse Tweet, News Tribune, Governor Inslee June 15^th media release, and Washington State Department of Health

Notorious soft-on-crime liberal State Senator Patty Kuderer (D – Bellevue) posted a tweet saying she met with workers at Home Depot to “discuss the serious issue of retail theft” and then gave the ambiguous statement that “the legislature can do more to help stores dealing with this.” It is doubtful the Home Depot employees believe the hastily developed police “reform” package Democrat legislators passed during the 2021 legislative session will “help stores dealing with this.”  It is also doubtful that the Home Depot employees believe electing the radical Nicole Thomas Kennedy as Seattle City Attorney (who has been endorsed by the King County Democrats and is supported by Washington State Democrat Party Chair Tina Podlodowski) as Seattle City Attorney will “help stores dealing with this.”

Obviously, many Democrat legislators in swing districts are starting to sense they are in deep trouble with constituents due to their soft-on-crime policies, and thus are beginning to pretend to care about crime by putting out silly statements like Senator Kuderer’s.  We trust voters are more intelligent than apparently Senator Kuderer gives them credit for, as the Democrats’ pathetic  legislative record on public safety speaks for itself and no phony window dressing will cover for their many failures. (Senator Patty Kuderer Twitter, Shift, and NTKforcrime website, King County Democrat list of endorsements and Tina Podlodowski Twitter)

Liberals on the Seattle City Council refuse to accept that it is their own failed policies which have created the never-ending homeless crisis in their city. The latest denial of reality comes from the mayoral campaign of current Seattle City Council President Lorena Gonzalez, responding to a television ad which favors her opponent, former City Council President Bruce Harrell.  The ad attacks Councilmember Gonzalez, stating she “has no plan to remove tent encampments from our parks and streets.” The Team Gonzalez response: “We have a homelessness crisis because the people funding this ad do not want to pay their fair share of taxes.”

This is how out of touch with reality the next mayor may be.  She knows, as reported in a Puget Sound Business Journal report, that between multiple layers of government (city, county, state, and federal) and hundreds of non-profits, that well over a billion dollars a year is spent on the city’s homeless problem (this study is four years old, thus the figure has undoubtedly doubled since then).

The City of Seattle alone spent more than $167 million last year, proving once again, that in liberals’ opinion, the answer is to simply pour even more taxpayers’ money into the failed policies which have only increased homelessness in Seattle. Of course, liberals never tell us exactly how much money is needed to solve the problem, they only tell us, “We need more.” (Seattle Times, Bruce Harrell for Seattle’s Future ad, Puget Sound Business Journal, and We Heart Seattle)

Speaking of the race to become the next Seattle mayor, the two ultra-liberal candidates in the race held their first televised debate last night. Both candidates, Council President Lorena Gonzalez and former Council President Bruce Harrell, are members in good standing of the region’s liberal establishment club, which has produced the city’s last five failed Seattle mayors (Paul Schell, Greg Nickels, and Mike McGinn each lost re-election bids, Ed Murray resigned due to child rape allegations, and Jenny Durkan lost public support due to her multiple mistakes during the CHAZ/CHOP riots).

Both candidates stated they would handle the homelessness crisis in much the same way the city has failed over the past decade – spend more money to grow the size of city government while people remain on the street living a cruel existence.

The one stated difference between the two candidates was Harrell criticized Gonzalez for caving into the violence by liberal activists to “defund” the Seattle Police Department in 2020.  While Harrell claims he would have stood up to the pressure to cut the police department’s budget in half, there is very little history in his background to demonstrate he would have acted differently than other Seattle City Councilmembers or Democrat state legislators who all caved into the liberal rioters’ demands. At least Harrell states he would increase police funding in the future, while Gonzalez continued her attack on the police by accusing Seattle officers of abusing, “our life and liberty.” (Seattle Times)

Crosscut ran op-eds supporting each of the two candidates running for Seattle City Attorney.  Respected attorney and public safety consultant Peter Lindsay wrote in favor of Ann Davison, saying the city needs to prosecute repeat offenders who have escaped punishment during the 12 years of Pete Holmes as city attorney. Lindsay also states that we can expect even more well-trained and experienced Seattle police officers will leave the department if voters elect someone who tweeted on Christmas eve that police should “Eat Covid-laced sh*t.”

Apparently the best person Nicole Thomas-Kennedy could find to write an op-ed supporting her candidacy is the “associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at UW Bothell” (apparently Washington State Democrat Chair Tina Podlodowski was busy).  The associate professor’s primary message is that past tough-on-crime policies have not stopped crime yet fails to mention the significant increase in crime in both Seattle and Washington State as the result of current liberal criminal justice policies. (Crosscut)

King County Metro cancelled another 80 bus trips on Friday morning, and they won’t tell the public why.  Yesterday the transit agency canceled 26 morning trips.  In typical lack of transparency from a liberal government agency, Metro refuses to inform the public and taxpayers why they are stranding bus riders at bus stops in the early morning cold weather. (MyNorthwest)

A man obsessed with the Columbia Basin Reclamation Project was arrested for attacking Senator Mark Schoesler(R – Ritzville). The 71-year-old man used his truck to block a semi-truck Schoesler was driving in Ritzville.  The man then got out of his truck and tried to pull the former Republican Senate Leader from the truck and grazed him as he threw a punch.  The man was charged with fourth-degree assault, harassment and disorderly conduct. (Cheney Free Press)

Why aren’t media members doing their job by asking elected Democrat officials if they support the actions of their party Chair Tina Podlodowski (who is assisting the candidacy of the extremist Seattle City Attorney candidate Nicole Thomas Kennedy) or the actions of two former Democrat governors (who endorsed moderate Ann Davison in the race)?  If Washington State Republican Chair Caleb Heimlich supported a candidate with such extreme views as Thomas Kennedy, and if former GOP state officials Rob McKenna and Dan Evans had endorsed the extremist candidate’s opponent, the state’s media would rightfully be asking other Republican officials and candidates to take a public stand on the division within their party.  Yet, the media doesn’t believe the public should know if Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson (the two elected officials most responsible for our state’s public safety) support the actions of their party chair to promote the extremist Thomas Kennedy and her radical anti-police views or do they support the actions of two former Washington State governors. (Click to read full Shift article)

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