Look, we all know what they've got coming. The leftists infesting the legislature will do what their union masters tell them to do, which means these clowns will get their pay raises and the leftists will do everything they can to avoid state employee reductions... in either numbers, or wages.
The result? Massive cuts in core services, little to no change in taking care of their buddies, and a massive tax increase to put on the ballot, so the democrats can avoid any blame for their misfeasance in office.
It's bad enough that these neo-comms would advocate for a huge tax increase during a recession... but to make it legal to use state facilities and assets to campaign for such a socialist move?
I get that it's totally unrealistic to expect the fringe-leftists running the show in Sodom-on-the-Sound to do the RIGHT thing, which is to focus entirely on reducing the size of government and avoiding crippling impacts on an economy teetering on the brink thanks to the empty suit in DC.
But to use taxpayer dollars to CAMPAIGN for a tax increase... and ONLY for referenda... and NOT initiatives... well, that is just, plain, despicable.
Rep. Maralyn Chase, D-Shoreline, and any other democrat thug in favor of this steaming pile should be ashamed of themselves. They won't be, of course, because getting the tax passed is all they're concerned about... ethics, morality and common sense be damned.
Thanks to Joe Turner of a REAL newspaper, the Tacoma News Tribune, for spilling the beans.
It sure looks that way. But it's not just for the upcoming tax packages.
House Bill 2322, which was introduced yesterday, would change the state ethics laws to allow legislators to advocate in favor (or against) a ballot measure. They already are free to say what they think of something on the ballot, but this bill appears to go one step further. It would let them use their newsletters to constituents, press releases, correspondence to constituents and other state resources to make their views known far and wide.
UPDATE: I'll just talked to Rep. Maralyn Chase, D-Shoreline, the prime sponsor, to see what she had in mind. First, her bill would apply only to referenda that are put on the ballot by the Legislature. "You oughta get out there and stand by what you did," she said.
(But if Tim Eyman or someone else managed to get an initiative on the ballot, legislators still could not use their office newsletter to campaign for or against those measures. Only a legislative referendum, she said.)
Chase said she didn't introduce this bill only for the upcoming tax package (or packages) that lawmakers are likely to put before voters, although that is part of the reason. She said she also signed onto a similar bill sponsored in 2002 by then-Rep. Ruth Fisher.)
"If we refer a measure to the voters, then we sure as hell better talk about it, tell them why we did what we did," Chase said.
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