June 23, 2020


Source: ShiftWA.org

While thousands of Washington residents are stuck waiting for the unemployment payments due to them, Governor Inslee is stepping to the front of the pay line to get a non-merit based pay raise.

While tens of thousands of Washington State residents are forced to wait for their unemployment benefits, due to the multiple failures of Jay Inslee’s Employment Security Department (ESD), the governor will be receiving a $5,000+pay raise next week. Governor Inslee, who is already the 6th highest paid governor in the country, will now see his pay increase from $182,179 a year to $187,353.  No word from the financially challenged governor if he will follow the lead of Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, who will donate his pay raise to the Thurston County Food Bank (which likely has more clients due to the failure of Inslee’s hand-picked team at the ESD). (WCCSEO, The Ladders, and News Tribune)

Governor Inslee shows why his pay raise is undeserved, punting on leading on police reform, and appointing a task force to make non-binding recommendations on policing.  As with nearly all “task-forces,” “blue ribbon panels,” and “advisory groups” commissioned by the governor, this group is dominated by liberal special interest groups and Inslee campaign donors. It is interesting to note that even though much of the current reform discussions involve urban police tactics, there is no representation from any of the larger urban police departments on the task force. In order to not upset his far-Left base, who are demanding defunding and other radical changes to policing, or a general public which is weary of drastic law enforcement modifications, the timeline for this task force’s recommendations is sometime this fall (i.e. after the November elections). (News Tribune)

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