It has taken a while, but the Seattle Times editorial board took a look down Third Avenue and found almost as many social service agencies draining money out of the city’s budget as there were homeless people actually being helped out of their situation. Accidentally showing the depth of the problem was clearly clueless City Councilman Andrew Lewis, who said, “I would say that everyone who is active on Third Avenue does have a clearly delineated role,” before gassing up his light and adding, “There’s a lot of folks, but there’s not a ton of overlap in the responsibilities.”

And by “not a ton,” Lewis means it’s not his money being wasted. The Times provided some perspective on how much money can be wasted just by listing how many different hands were in the taxpayers’ pockets: “Third Avenue Project… overseen by Purpose Dignity Action (formerly known as the Public Defender Association). … We Deliver Care (not to be confused with JustCare, which does housing outreach, or We Heart Seattle, which focuses on encampment cleanup) … Case management nonprofit LEAD is also involved.”

As the editorial board summed up, “To get the most from taxpayer dollars, government funders ought to ensure that investments go to services instead of the support systems of dozens of groups aiming to accomplish the same goals.” To learn more about the alphabet soup of agencies spending money to seemingly make the homelessness problem worse, read on here… (Seattle Times)

Rarely do you see a member of the state’s legal profession publicly pick on incumbent Attorney General Bob Ferguson for his administration of the office since he has lots of lawyers with unlimited budgets. But one Joan Mell, a board member of the Washington Coalition for Open Government, took to the editorial pages of the Seattle Times to suggest that “You would think that, given (Bob Ferguson’s) role as the people’s attorney, his agency would outperform all other agencies on Public Records Act compliance.  But it does not, and he does not seem to care.”

But the pounding did not stop there, with attorney Mell continuing, “I am a lawyer who has litigated against the government for more than three decades. In one politically charged case, a potential juror commented about the AG’s prolific lawsuits saying, ‘that is why they call him Bobbie Sue.’” You can find out why that nickname is a keeper and uncover more of what the AG doesn’t want you to know by reading here…

Legislative Democrats love to celebrate “lived experiences” as a guiding principle in policy-making, except, as KOMO reports, when someone else is living the experience and the Olympia crowd wants to take control. That’s the story of House Bill 1110, which will “override local zoning rules that have long kept large areas in cities for only single-family homes” and “legalize duplexes and fourplexes in most neighborhoods in nearly every Washington city.” To learn why Olympia Democrats think local Democrats can’t manage their own cities, read here…(KOMO)

If you listen to State Senator Patty Kuderer about how confused voters are about tax advisory votes, you’d have to wonder how voters could be smart enough to put such a legislative wizard as her in office in the first place.  As Jason Rantz reported, Kuderer bragged that under Democrat control, the taxpayer-approved advisory votes “have no real impact on policy-making” because Democrats ignore them and pass more taxes. Instead, the votes of the people are just “anti-tax propaganda.” To learn more about the propaganda Sen. Kuderer does want you to have, you can read on… (MyNorthwest)

The nanny state that is the Democrat-dominated Washington State legislature really wants to limit the hard decisions you have to deal with in the future.  So they have courageously agreed, as KUOW reported, on “a measure to phase out hotels’ use of single-use plastics, such as tiny shampoo and lotion bottles.” More about how Olympia Democrats will save us from ourselves here… (KUOW)

WHAT OTHER SHOES ARE THERE TO DROP ON GOVERNOR-WANNABE “BOBBIE SUE” FERGUSON?

REMINDER: SEN. MANKA DHINGRA KNOWS THIS DATA’S FALSE, USES IT ANYWAY TO ADVANCE HER RADICAL PRO-CRIME BIAS

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