July 16, 2020


The Washington Wire does a good job explaining Governor Jay Inslee’s and Democrat legislative leaders’ illogical rational for not holding a special session to fix the state’s budget, but the article fails to provide the three political reasons for the procrastination of the Democrats.  Left our of the story was, first, by not fixing the state’s revenue shortfall, Inslee is helping Speaker Nancy Pelosi build the case for yet another large federal bailout (where pork-barrel politics will be in full play just before the election). Second, a special legislative session could force lawmakers to respond to the public outcry over the latest state workers’ pay raise which Governor Inslee just allowed.  And finally, Democrats want to wait until after the November elections to use the state’s financial predicament to achieve their greedy goal of raising taxes even further and to make government even larger. Just follow the bouncing ball – a larger state government means more unionized state workers, which means more money from the unions for Democrat campaigns and liberal organizations.) (Washington State Wire)

 The Washington State Republican Party has begun running a television ad that asks, “What happened to the state we love?”  The ad says our cities have been taken over by radicals and that “Democrat leadership has led Washington to the brink.” The ad specifically calls out the failures of Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.  (Washington State Republican Party)

A headline we are tired of repeating, but we must: Thousands of Washington State residents have yet to receive unemployment benefits from Governor Jay Inslee’s embattled Employment Security Department (ESD).  An attorney who is suing the state because of its failure to provide promised benefits says, “ESD made the decision to treat every claimant as a fraud imposter when they decided to pause benefits, requiring identification, and then when people sent in identification, not promptly resolving the issue for the claimant.” (MyNorthwest)

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