Washington Liberals

The campaign to get the Thurston County Public Power Initiative on the ballot is rumored to have collected more than 11K signatures!   It should be assumed that there are hundreds of invalid, duplicate signatures, so the campaign continues.  We need to round up a couple thousand more signatures to make sure that the public power…

The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections. As a result, our democracy is being sold to the highest bidder. The evidence of corruption is mounting every day, but the Supreme Court just said, in effect, “tough luck, go home, corporations rule.” They refused even…

Every Republican Who Signed the Norquist Tax Pledge Violated Their Oath of Office … It is treasonous then, to also pledge an oath to a domestic enemy of the United States government whose stated purpose is not to “abolish government, but to drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub,” because “our…

[Last week Black Box Voting published the faulty software for Accenture’s voting system — see Actual Accenture voter list software.] Amazingly, Accenture, which sold its crap-on-a-stick high-school sophomoric completely insecure malfunctioning voter registration software to a bunch of states, so unsuccessfully that Colorado refused to pay and others, like Wisconsin and Shelby County, bought out the…

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Tomorrow Justice Party of Washington State expects to finish collecting enough signatures to complete ballot access.  Then WA State will have official state party status, and we can place a vote for Rocky! Please email if you can join us to collect signatures at the Seattle Pride Festival tomorrow, Sunday, June 24th.  We’re meeting at Cafe…

Caught this on Juan Cole’s Informed Comment this morning.

“Many of the documents publicize for the first time what was first made clear in the 9/11 Commission: The White House received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al-Qaida was trying to attack the United States. From June to September 2001, a full seven CIA Senior Intelligence Briefs detailed that attacks were imminent, an…

A great lecture on the rule of law.