Senate Democrats in Olympia may have to actually cast their votes for $5 billion in new taxes proposed by Governor Inslee this week – meaning they may actually have to be held accountable for trying to tax their voters out of house and home. They will also have to fess up to not having a real plan to fund education without local levies, despite passing a bill this last week that is supposed to do just that. A vote will also help to decode what taxes the Democrats actually support and think will work.

Speaker of the House, Frank Chopp (D), is being sued by Attorney General Bob Ferguson for campaign finance violations. Chopp, the ringleader of Democrats in Olympia, is being sued for: failing to disclose campaign contributions, not returning contributions that were over the allocated limit, failure to disclose expenditures and for granting himself illegal reimbursements from the campaign.

Former senator Don Benton who is now a Senior White House Advisor to the EPA has re-emerged to lobby his former Vancouver-area colleagues against approving a new I-5 bridge, as he says it will open the door for the light rail to try to gain access to the bridge. Benton does not believe the voters in his former district, will be supportive of the light rail on a bridge there.

The AFL-CIO is firing staff and “realigning our core priorities,” according to spokesman Josh Goldstein. As people begin to see the manipulative tactics union use to siphon money from people, including a union in Washington that has been taking money from peoples’ bank accounts without permission, union membership has been receding in unions both in and outside of the AFL-CIO.

Seattle’s Transit Riders Union wants to use an income tax in Seattle to keep it a sanctuary city. In order to “Trump Proof Seattle,” the group wants to slap a 2.5 percent tax on “unearned income” in wealthy households so that they can take what they estimate to be $100 million from Seattle taxpayers to make up for a potential loss of federal funding.

Washington is chartering planes for prisoners. Tens of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds are being used to charter prisoners – Con Air-style – back to Washington rather than having the state use busses to cart them back and forth, which would be much more cost effective. Hilariously, these are the same planes that are routinely used to fly Governor Inslee around as well.