June 11, 2020

Source: ShiftWA.org

People all over the country are stunned that Governor Jay Inslee was unaware that protestors had taken over 6 blocks on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.  When asked about the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” which was declared on June 8,  the clueless governor replied, “Well that’s news to me so I’ll have to reserve any comment about that.  I have not heard anything about that, from any credible source.  Not that you’re not credible, just before I espouse an opinion, I should know of which I speak.” It has been a top story in the country for over two days, and our governor was not aware of it.  At least Governor Inslee is consistent in his ignorance concerning violent Left-wing protests.  After the June 2019 Portland Antifa protests, in which a journalist was hospitalized due to being assaulted by protestors, Inslee was questioned at an appearance for his failed presidential campaign about the attack and replied, “Tell me who Antifa is.” Even though Antifa had often made national news for their violent protests (many of which occurred in Washington State), Jay Inslee thought Antifa was a person. This truly was Governor Zero meeting his moment.  (Rebecca Perry Twitter, Wikipedia, The Epoch Times, and C-SPAN)

The Press Secretary for Jay Inslee’s failed presidential campaign, retweeted a post favorable to the protestors who want to defund Seattle police.  In doing so, Katie Rodihan is acting as if Jay Inslee, the Democrat state legislators, and Seattle’s liberal establishment have not been in in power for the past three or four decades and able to fund or solve the problems the protestors say they are fighting for. (Katie Rodihan Twitter)

Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy announced that her office will conduct two investigations into the “hundreds of millions of dollars” stolen from the state’s Employment Security Department, which resulted in the state failing to deliver promised financial assistance to hundreds of thousands of Washington residents.  The Democrat auditor stated that her office will review 1) the technical aspect that allowed the theft to take place; and 2) what specific factors led to the delay of unemployment payments. One thing we hope the auditor can do, quickly, is provide Washington citizens the actual amount that was stolen from taxpayers.  Thus far, the Inslee Administration has only provided vague calculations for the theft that happened under their watch. (Washington State Auditor media release)

Employment Security Department (ESD) Commissioner Suzi LeVine said the effort by her office to clean up the backlog of benefit applications has not moved “as quickly as we would hope.”  After mismanagement of the ESD system allowed a “well-organized Nigerian crime ring” to commit one of the largest scams in American history, costing taxpayers “hundreds of millions of dollars,” the department was forced to shut down the application process and delay much-needed payments to thousands of Washington residents.  LeVine said the ESD has taken the unprecedented course of bringing in the National Guard personnel to help relieve the backlog. Maybe some of them could help box up LeVine’s office so she could do the state a favor and return to Democrat fundraising where she might not do as much damage to taxpayers. (News Tribune)

Not only has the Inslee administration failed to deliver much-needed unemployment payments to Washington workers who have lost their wages due to the coronavirus outbreak, but they are also punishing those who are looking for other work to pay their bills.  While waiting for the Employment Security Department (ESD) to deliver the promised benefits, some have found temporary employment to earn money.  In doing so, the ESD might flag them and force an appeal (thus delaying payment even further) for their benefits. (MyNorthwest)

Despite Inslee’s “stay at home” orders, Parents for Safe Schools turned in more than 260,000 signatures (more than twice the required amount) to place a repeal of the Democrats’ controversial sex education measure on the November ballot.  Also noteworthy is that all signatures were gathered by volunteers (normally paid signature gatherers collect the needed signatures for Washington State’s initiatives and referendums).  Voter support of Referendum 90 would repeal SB 5395, which was authored by Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal and passed by the Democrats in the Washington Legislature.  The divisive measure would remove parents and local school boards from sex education curriculum decisions, and would mandate specific sex education topics to be taught starting at the kindergarten level. (KING5 News and Washington Legislature Bill Summary)