If we really want to restore or Democracy and end corporate corruption, it is time to change the way we think about elections – which are the foundation of our Democracy. The corporate controlled media would like to divide and conquer us by using artificial terms like liberals and conservatives, right versus left and Democrats…

This article is dedicated to my 12 year old daughter. She is an Honors student at Twin Falls Middle School in North Bend where she will soon be starting the 7th Grade. Her dream (and the dream of many of her classmates) is to graduate from high school in 2018 and go on to college.…

(Sunday, July 15) There was considerable unhappiness at the King County Dems picnic this afternoon. Members of the 45th LD complained about a Seattle Times article today.  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2018697037_1stdistrict16m.html The above article claims that Laura Ruderman’s mother paid for attack ads on fellow Democrat Suzan Delbene. Margaret Rothschild said she paid for the PAC’s attack ads…

 I look forward to the day when corporations are free to marry whomever they want – even including other corporations (or would that simply be a corporate merger?). When will we learn to accept corporations as people just like the rest of us? We should all be outraged that King County Elections has deprived a…

According to our Insurance Commission, there are at least one million people in our State – including more than 100,000 children without adequate access to health care. Even for those with heath care, the cost has skyrocketed thanks to deregulation of the health care industry.   US health care costs are nearly triple what they…

On Friday, June 1, the Washington State Progressive Caucus met at the Convention Center and had the largest turnout ever – with nearly 200 delegates attending our caucus. The room was packed and included 50 delegates who joined the Progressive Caucus for the first time. At the meeting, the Progressive Caucus endorsed Darcy Burner, the…

Representative Bob Hasegawa will be leading a special meeting of the Washington Public Bank Coalition to discuss what needs to be done to get the Investment Trust bill passed in the next legislative session. The meeting will be on Monday evening June 18th from 5:30 to 8 pm at Rainier Vista Neighborhood House, 4410 29th Avenue…

[Update: 2012/05/38.  Two new presentations: *How to Rebuild the Economy in Washington StateSenator Maralyn Chase, 32nd LD *Ending Wars & Fixing Congress  Darcy Burner Democratic Candidate for Congress 1st CD] Are you coming to the Democratic Convention in Seattle & looking for an inexpensive place to have dinner Friday night, June 1st? Are you interested…

Our State has an official unemployment rate of 9% and an actual unemployment rate of 25%. Nearly one million people are unemployed in our State. By comparison, North Dakota has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation – in part because North Dakota has their own State Bank which keeps their money in…

Last year, Microsoft reported making a record profit of $23 billion on $70 billion in sales.  Had Microsoft paid their fair share of State taxes, they would have paid 1.5 Percent times $70 billion – or one billion dollars in State taxes. This still would have left Microsoft a record profit of $22 billion –…