Steve Litzow and Andy Hill benefit from Koch brothers funding
For details see How the Koch Brothers worked to defeat Democrats in Washington State
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Regressive taxes are mentioned in the news and opinion pieces about Proposition 1
The issue of regressive taxes is in the news recently and is being raised by both supporters and opponents of Proposition 1. The Seattle Times, in their April 5 editorial against Proposition 1 mentioned...
Computer-generated Bible verse
[The text below was generated statistically, using quadgrams, according the frequency of occurrences after previous words. Words in italics were deterministic: each such word was the only word that appeared anywhere immediately after the...
High poverty counties tend to vote Republican in Washington State
Washington State counties with a higher percentage of people living below the poverty line tend to vote Republican. Poverty is defined as the percentage of residents living below the poverty line, according to the...
Conservative counties in WA are less educated
With the exception of Whitman County (population 44,776), the counties that voted for Mitt Romney in 2012 are less educated than those that voted for Barack Obama, as measured by the percent of citizens...
Guess which counties are the welfare queens
Republicans complain about taxes, but the data show that, with a few exceptions, Republican-leaning counties in Washington State take in more in state revenues than they pay in taxes. The following graph plots conservativeness...
Bellevue Reporter's wrong-headed political cartoon about transportation
(published also at the Bellevue reporter) The March 21st edition of the Bellevue Reporter has a political cartoon by Shiers, Jr. titled “Why the legislature can’t pass a transportation package….” It shows a farmer...
Plutocracy is comin, to the USA
New, alternative lyrics for Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy is coming, to the USA” (see videos below) Lyrics (c) Donald A. Smith D G D It’s coming from corruption that’s profane D A D From Grover...