Keep to the high ground. Thoughts and musings.
The one that’s important to its major backer will be on the November ballot In a sustained effort over two years, a single über-wealthy hedge fund manager, Brian Heywood, a Republican transplant from California, founded the PAC “Let’s Go Washington.” He funded the PAC with six million dollars (pocket change for him?). (See under “Support” here). …
Continue reading “What Happened to the WA Republican Greed Initiatives?”
The Promotion of Mis-information and self interest Larry Stone’s latest video opens with a simplistic lie. A deep-voiced male narrator intones: In Washington State, akin to Oregon and California, the allowance of camping on public property and open drug use in cities has resulted in a surge of homelessness, escalating crime rates, business closures, and …
Continue reading “Larry Stone, TRAC, and the “Curing” Videos”
Apparently, All Politics are more National than the old adage suggests Five years ago I pointed out in a blog post entitled “Things I’ve Learned” that flipping a Congressional District like CD5 (eastern Washington) from an incumbent of one major party to the other almost always happens by a small vote margin—and, once that the …
Continue reading “The McMorris Rodgers’ Machine Calling the Shots Locally”
We are in need of financial literacy In the last months we have read a lot about the “debt ceiling”, the national debt, and the Republican threat to crash the national and global economy unless their wish list of spending cuts are granted to them. Never mind that the very Republican “Tax Cuts and Jobs …
Continue reading “The National Debt–A Spending or a Revenue Problem?”
It is getting harder to believe it isn’t really happening–and to deny what’s causing it Jerry LeClaireJul 7 The fires are starting again. Evacuation orders issued to households between Cheney and Spokane. Precipitation is nowhere in the forecast, the landscape is parched. The hay crop is a quarter of the usual. Hay prices are soaring. …
County Power Politics Jerry LeClaireApr 23 An historic change in the governance of Spokane County is about to occur. In 2022 Spokane County will elect five county commissioners each from five new commissioner districts to the County Commission. Importantly, the new commissioner elections must use district nominations AND district elections. This is in contrast to …
Sex sells. Talk of sex gets people’s attention, and, seeded with enough misinformation, it will surely rile up some folks–and the riled will vote in greater numbers. Referendum 90 (Ref. 90) seeks to repeal the Washington State mandate to provide comprehensive sexual health education in Washington State public schools (See Ref. 90, Sex, Politics, and Religion, Part …