Jay Inslee’s $39 billion budget includes spending for employee pay hikes to the tune of a whopping $867 million. As Shift reported, the generous pay hikes were the result of secret negotiations (read: … [Read more...]
Sen. Hill challenges Inslee’s sky-is-falling rhetoric on state budget
Key Republican state senators commented on Jay Inslee’s $39 billion budget at the Washington Policy Center’s Solutions Summit Conference this week. One of those senators included Sen. Andy Hill, who … [Read more...]
Inslee will ignore Legislature, use exec order for billion-dollar gas tax scheme
Jay Inslee took time away from this week’s “Watch Your Wallet” press conferences tour to announce his plan to ignore the legislature while implementing his gas-price raising fuel mandate scheme. And, … [Read more...]
Inslee wants to stop free trade deals
In a gift to his big-money labor union donors just before Christmas, Jay Inslee sent a letter to the US Trade Representative last week trying to slow down negotiations on pending free trade … [Read more...]
Inslee’s education budget proposal requires tax hikes
Jay Inslee rolled out some ideas for education spending in the next budget cycle during a not-so-transparent town hall meeting last night. Here are the highlights of what can hardly be called a plan … [Read more...]
Inslee’s town hall meeting is anything but transparent
Jay Inslee struggles with understanding the importance of government transparency—Shift has reported on his issues with the concept in the past. This evening, Inslee’s struggle with open government … [Read more...]
TBT: Inslee’s no-new-taxes (broken) campaign promise
Candidate Jay Inslee is not the same person as Governor Jay Inslee—that’s a documented reality. Where candidate Inslee declared that he did not believe that “tax increases are the right path for the … [Read more...]
Colorado says “no” to secret union negotiations
Yesterday, Colorado voters not only rejected Democrat Sen. Mark Udall’s re-election bid, they passed a very important, under-reported ballot measure. Colorado’s Proposition 104 will “require all … [Read more...]
Inslee tries selling extreme green agenda to people who create jobs
Successful leaders are advised to “know their audience,” so they can make sure they frame their remarks in the language of the people they are speaking to. That was a lesson that Jay Inslee must have … [Read more...]
For $1 million, evidently you can buy Inslee’s support
The results of Jay Inslee’s secret contract negotiations with the state employee unions were concluded this week. Predictably, the unions — who “invested” over $1 million in Jay Inslee’s 2012 … [Read more...]
Inslee ignores red ink, gives $$$ to campaign donors
The state’s accountants at the Office of Financial Management (OFM) released the latest projection of revenue available for the state’s next two-year budget, and as expected they warned lawmakers that … [Read more...]
State employee unions tell Inslee to dig deeper – into taxpayers pockets
Shift is among the many outlets which have reported on the unnecessarily secret negotiations that Jay Inslee’s administration has been conducting with the state employee unions over the summer. … [Read more...]