August 14, 2020

The Inslee Administration continues to fail to provide the basic, necessary coronavirus-related data needed to make important decisions. Jay Inslee has been in the governor’s mansion since 2013. He has led a massive increase in the size, power, and cost of state government (20% alone in the past two years), yet the Inslee Administration cannot deliver on even basic tasks, like counting.  The Seattle Times reports that simple data troubles have delayed the state’s reporting of COVID-19 test rates for 10 days.  Earlier this week it was revealed that the Inslee Administration has signed lucrative no-bid contracts with outside consulting firms to perform many of the tasks state government has been assigned to handle during the crisis.  Just consider the various ways that Jay Inslee has demonstrated the incompetence of his leadership: the Employment Security Department scandal; the embarrassing failures of Inslee’s (now defunct) “dials”; failure to follow health guidelines at state-run facilities (leading to the release of 1,200 inmates and the deaths of inmates, patients, and staffers); making many decisions based on self-serving partisan needs rather than being inclusive in making decisions; handing out pay raises to state employees while many taxpayers are suffering financially; and constantly having difficulties in providing accurate data. The coronavirus outbreak has clearly shown the limitations and faults of the liberal utopia of large, powerful, and expensive state government. (Seattle Times and Northwest News Network)

Governor Inslee continues to focus on national partisan issues which will not impact Washington residents, while saying absolutely nothing about the divisive actions of his fellow Democrats which will impact the personal security of hundreds of thousands of Washington residents.  Inslee is constantly seeking microphones to promote the national Democrats selfish and reckless desire to force 3,000 American counties to drastically change their election systems over the next three months (read here why this would cause election mayhem when our country desperately needs reliability in election results), yet this does not impact at all the election system for Washington State voters. But Inslee has said nothing about the recent unpopular actions of his fellow Democrats on the Seattle City Council to defund the police.  Despite many Black activists (including Black Lives Matter leaders and Rev. Al Sharpton) calling the city council racists for their actions which led the city’s first Black female police chief to resign, Inslee has said nothing.  He has failed to stand by Mayor Jenny Durkan as she has resisted caving into the unreasonable demands of rioters and violence.  It was clear during Inslee’s failed presidential campaign, when he forced Washington taxpayers to pay for his campaign’s security, and it has become even more clear today that Gov. Inslee’s primary goal in life is not to serve and lead the citizens of Washington, but to use the resources of the state to promote his own selfish desire for a job in Washington, D.C.  This is the very sad reality. (News Tribune and Shift)

Small gym owners believe Governor Inslee’s latest set of guidelines make it even more difficult for some businesses to stay afloat.  Owners state that the mandates do not differentiate between different sizes and types of gyms.  Small gym owner Ginny Pietila says, ““The bigger picture really is we, the small fitness studio owners, just simply don’t feel that it’s just and equitable to label all gyms under the same heading. We’re appointment based only, there is absolutely no open gym. Nobody comes in that is not supervised, that does not have an appointment.”  The gym owners have thus far collected 16,000 signatures asking the governor to revisit his latest mandates and separate the different types of fitness facilities. (MyNorthwest)