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Friends, Last week, we continued our series on the Top 10 most underreported stories of 2015. Perhaps the most ridiculous story came courtesy of our green governor who, just last month told an out-of-state newspaper that Washington State was a “victim of corporate extortion” by Boeing in reference to “the Boeing tax bill” passed in … Continued
Gov. Jay Inslee is “pulling an Obama” and trying to go around the Legislature to enact his climate change agenda. Inslee believes he can use the state’s Clean Air Act to impose a “carbon cap” – without the Legislature’s involvement or approval. This executive overreach, which is no doubt headed for the courts, comes in … Continued
Gov. Jay Inslee loves to say that Republicans are the reason none of his climate change bills has passed the Legislature. According to the AP, “Inslee blamed the Senate Republican majority for the failures, saying the party ‘is now in the stranglehold of the oil and gas industry.’” Slight problem with Inslee’s blame game: it … Continued
Continuing our series on the year’s most underreported stories, Shift examined how House Democrats have been slowly losing ground to Republicans over the last seven years. Democrats are now down to a bare 50-48 majority, thanks to better candidate recruitment by the GOP and a total focus on tax increases by Democrats. We also highlight … Continued
Today Shift looked at Gov. Jay Inslee’s claim that Boeing committed “corporate extortion” when it received tax incentives – which Inslee himself negotiated and then called a special session of the Legislature to pass. Apparently he has mixed feelings about it now. It ranks #8 in our Top Ten most underreported stories of the year. … Continued
Team, Last week, we launched a new series on the Top Ten underreported stories of 2015. We kicked off the series with the many times Jay Inslee broke his no new taxes campaign promises and the many times the state Supreme Court overreached its powers. We feel it’s important to hold our government officials accountable, in all offices … Continued
Continuing our countdown of the Top Ten underreported stories of the year, today Shift examined our partisan, activist, over-reaching state Supreme Court. Unfortunately for us, the court isn’t content to do its own job – they want to do the Legislature’s job, too! We also take a look at the four new tax hike proposals … Continued
Gov. Jay Inslee announced his supplemental budget proposal today and, wouldn’t you know it, he wants to raise taxes…again. The man who ran for office saying he’d veto tax increases revealed that promise to be a Big Lie almost immediately after taking office. It’s just another reminder – when Democrats say they won’t raise taxes, … Continued
Extreme environmentalists sure love to talk about how they are saving the world, because they know that everyone really agrees with them – as long as someone else is picking up the tab. It seems another typical trait of the rabid greenies is a desire to keep much of their work away from the media’s … Continued
Once again the Seattle City Council members could not help themselves – with all eight of those at Monday’s meeting voting to curry favor with labor unions and try to put innovative companies like Uber out of business. Shift features the story today, which got in-depth coverage from the Seattle Times. In another emerging unanimous … Continued
Now that the fundraising freeze has started and Paris global warming talks have ended, maybe Jay Inslee will find some time in his schedule to start working on a priority issue Shift writes about today – saving the state’s voter-approved public charter schools. If Jay can just get the teachers union out of the way, … Continued
Team – Last week, Shift revealed how Jay Inslee’s schedule in the days leading up to his trip to the United Nations climate conference in Paris was consumed by “personal time,” fundraising, and sometimes both in conjunction. In fact, Inslee’s “work” schedule featured a majority of the 50 hours he was on the clock for personal/fundraising … Continued