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A victory was won for rural Washington yesterday when the Legislature finally approved a solution to the Hirst decision late last night.

Gov. Inslee “wasn’t aware” his Dept. of Licensing routinely shared data with federal immigration enforcement – just add it to the burgeoning “Inslee Didn’t Know” category.

John Spellman, the first King County Executive and last Republican governor, died yesterday at 91. Spellman served one term, of which he was sanguine: “You don’t get elected to get re-elected. You get elected to do the job.”  

“It has angered me.” – Jay Inslee on the DOL not following his executive order on immigration from last year

We can only assume A.G. Bob Ferguson will be suing himself soon now that it’s public knowledge that DOL is handing over personal information to ICE.   If everyone reading this right now donated just $1 we would have all the funds we need for the rest of the month. If you can chip in … Continued

The first thing Democrats did with their new state Senate majority? Repealed the 2/3 rule for tax increases – you know what’s on their minds.

Democrats are under pressure for a “car tab relief” bill because of Sound Transit, so they’re doing it…but they don’t want to have to vote on any pesky Republican amendments. Can’t have them giving too much of the taxpayers’ money back to them!    

What’s the over/under on how many times Jay Inslee says “green” or “clean” in today’s State of the State address?  

Session convenes today in Olympia…we can’t wait to see what new ways Inslee has come up with to try to push a carbon tax through.

Democratic leaders don’t seem very committed to Jay Inslee’s agenda

Looks like the Seahawks are already moving on from Blair Walsh. They signed kicker Jason Myers yesterday.