A Tale of Typical Political Favors

Giving money to Democrat politicians has provided Suzi LeVine with the privilege to buy any government job she wants. (See below for details.)

Source:  ShiftWA.org

Governor Jay Inslee has a “road rage” issue.  One of the governor’s first acts of the 2021 legislative session was to announce that he was “pausing” construction projects (that were negotiated and approved in the 2015 Connecting Washington package) in order to obtain funding for his own favorite projects.  This helps put the governor’s priorities into perspective. He wants to spend 100 times more on helping salmon go upstream (through his fish culverts) than he is on helping Washington residents who have faced severe financial hardship due his random (and unscientific) actions that have devastated many small businesses during the pandemic. (Click to read full Shift Article)

The foreign criminals who stole more than $600,000,000 from Washington taxpayers must be jumping for joy at the news that inept Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD) Commissioner Suzi LeVine will be taking her dysfunctional management “skills” to become the “interim political head” of the federal Employment and Training Administration.  Still reeling from last week’s announcement that Democrat political fundraiser Suzi LeVine would be leaving the ESD for a position in the Biden Administration, we found out today exactly where she is going to inflict more damage.  We also learned that while LeVine’s administrative decisions allowed criminals to hack into our state’s computer system and become very wealthy, LeVine and her husband were investing $400,000 in helping Joe Biden become president and in other Democrat causes (like creating employment opportunities for herself). LeVine has experience in this field, becoming Ambassador to Switzerland after she raised millions for the first Obama campaign.  She became ESD Commissioner because she raised money for Inslee’s campaigns. And now she has a federal job because she donated hundreds of thousands to help Biden become president.  Talk about “privilege.” Most people need qualifications for a job, LeVine just buys into the job pipeline created by Democrat politicians. (Seattle Times)

As Suzi LeVine moves onto another government position she invested in, her sad legacy remains. Jim Brunner of the Seattle Times outlines the serious delay waiting for LeVine’s Employment Security Department to release public documents he had requested last spring.  Brunner writes that it has taken 219 days to receive most of the material – mainly LeVine’s daily calendar – he requested.  Shift readers will remember that investigative whistle-blower Lynn Brewer had to take the ESD to court to get a judge to order the dysfunctional department to turn over documents – which she has still yet to receive. (Seattle Times and Shift Newsmaker Interview)

Senator Chris Gildon (R – Puyallup) provides a helpful “how to” video on remote testimony, and some opinions on pending legislative measures.  The tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to look up bills and provide lawmakers with your opinion.  Unfortunately, the video does not educate citizens on how to overcome the rude and dismissive actions by Senator Sam Hunt (D – Olympia) when he does not want to hear from Washington residents  – especially when it is testimony on how Governor Inslee’s unscientific orders continue to impose hardships on families and small businesses. (YouTube/Senator Gildon Video and Shift Article)