Leave it to the Seattle Times funnyman, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning David Horsey, to capture the true essence of Governor Jay Inslee as a blockhead who mainly exists to prevent the progress of others. Horsey insightfully captured how the governor’s retirement announcement has allowed two other statewide Democrat elected officials to thaw out their own gubernatorial campaigns, as well as allow many others yearning for those statewide positions to get moving. A sad announcement only for those who draw cartoons for a living (or maybe work for Jay).

Of course, you can leave it to the Washington Post to have a far fonder view of our green governor, since he didn’t “govern” their readers through one-man rule for 975 days of “emergency powers” during COVID without any legislative oversight (as Shift has long pointed out). Only the Post could actually put Inslee’s far-away bragging onto their pages. like his taking credit for the current President’s thinking on climate change, claiming “he told me, ‘What you did did have an impact on some of my thinking.’ And I’ve frankly never had a larger accolade than that.” You can read more about how that meager praise makes Jay Inslee blush here… Seattle Times, Shift, Washington Post.

Many legislative Democrats could barely contain their hypocrisy at the end of the recent session, when they could claim to their constituents that they cared about public safety and had restored the ability of police to pursue the bad guys. That’s what Democrats did when they jammed through a watered-down version of the so-called “police pursuits” bill.  Unfortunately, now that light can be shone on what the Democrats actually did in Olympia, as KOMO does, that shockingly turns out not to be true.

Instead, Seattle police are being advised by their leadership that the outcome of the law is that…Seattle police will not pursue people driving away from the scene of the crime. Read more about this sad reality here… KOMO.

Some government incompetencies are truly hard to believe, so stunningly bad are they for the public good – all over something that was as easy as reading. Yet that is the case with the recent construction accident over Sound Transit’s downtown tunnel, a mishap which the Seattle Times writes “is delaying thousands of light-rail passengers, and discouraging others from riding, because Sound Transit resorted to using only the southbound track for trains in both directions, at four downtown stations. Service is cut in half citywide.”

Leave it to Sound Transit to find a solution which could inconvenience as many people as possible, what with Amazon employees returning to work and the Seattle Kraken continuing in the playoffs this week (and the Mariners coming home). All because no one read the blueprints before authorizing cosmetic construction above the transit tunnel. If they had, the contractors would have known they could dig no further than three feet before hitting the tunnel, because, as the Times points out “the clock’s foundation was integrated into the cut-and-cover station’s own structure, attached by steel rebar, when tunnel builders poured a huge slab of concrete in 1988 forming the lid.” The whole blame game story is here… Seattle Times.

It is a story that Shift carried last week, but since Attorney General Bob Ferguson did not send out a press release about his massive fine for covering up severe office misconduct, it just surfaced this week in places like the Seattle Times, where it was noted that the “state attorney general’s office and Department of Social and Health Services have been fined $200,000 — and face the prospect of forking over hundreds of thousands of dollars more in legal fees — for what a judge called ‘egregious’ and ‘cavalier’ withholding of evidence in an ongoing lawsuit.”

Perhaps the AG is too focused on the campaign trail to handle the demands of his taxpayer-funded office.  The Times adds that “increasingly costly legal blunders have come to light as Attorney General Bob Ferguson launches his long-anticipated run for governor, in which the three-term Democrat is touting his experience leading the AG’s office since 2013.” You can read more about the kind of behavior we don’t need in the governor’s mansion here… Shift, Seattle Times.

How many of you can say you were there when the World’s Fair came to the smallest city ever to host the spectacle? You can see more here… HistoryLink.org

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