CarbonWA's initiative I-732 qualifies
This week we’ve got official confirmation that I-732 has qualified (!), a final 250 Club update, the unveiling of our new website (yeson732.org), and a great editorial on carbon pricing in the NY Times....
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The Koch and Bush families helped the Nazis
The Kochs & the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires’ Father Built Key Oil Refinery for the Third Reich How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power
The NY Times' deceptive summary of yesterday's Clinton-Sanders debate
In In Democratic Debate, Hillary Clinton Challenges Bernie Sanders on Policy Shifts the NY Times summarized last night’s debate by saying “Hillary Clinton targeted Bernie Sanders’s electoral appeal with some of her strongest language...
Second Charter School Fix is also a Framework for Fraud
Even though the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that charter schools are unconstitutional and ordered the State legislature to fully fund our real public schools, some of the leaders of the State legislature, in...
How can Wikipedia prevent liars and miscreants from suppressing the truth?
Someone on facebook posted, with apparent approval, a link to the an announcement DOCTORS’ GROUP VOTES TO OPPOSE VACCINE MANDATES. The doctor’s group is the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AARP). It’s webpages...
Is someone paying facebook to recommend conservative content?
Someone posted a link on facebook to the article Who Is Profiting From Charters? The Big Bucks Behind Charter School Secrecy, Financial Scandal and Corruption. Below the article, in a section called “PEOPLE ALSO...
Resolution Challenging the constitutionality of Initiative 1366
(drafted per request of King County Democrats’ Chair Rich Erwin, for presentation to KCDCC) WHEREAS Washington voters, on November 3, 2015, narrowly adopted Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1366 (“I-1366â€), a ballot measure containing serious flaws...
How does voter turnout vary with income?
(Click for a larger version) The graph above shows one point (a “+”) for 414 zip-codes in Washington State having greater than 1000 population in 2010. The X axis value for each point represents...
Resolution in Support of Accessible Community-Based Social Security Administration Service Delivery
WHEREAS record numbers of clients are visiting and calling Social Security Administration (SSA) offices to receive the services and benefits that they have earned over a lifetime of work, and facing record waiting times...