Regional Issues Archive 2014-2016

Regional Issues 2014-2016

December 21, 2016

Fed Tax Money On The Way

The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development is sending an influx of cash to fight homelessness in Washington state, it announced Tuesday and will consist of more than $58 million in grants will be provided to 191 health centers, nonprofits and municipalities to fight homelessness across the state. Many think that the more that is provided the more homeless will come.

Organizations like the Seattle Rapid Rehousing for Families Project, Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) and other homelessness prevention and reduction programs operating in King County will receive about $34.4 million, the department said. The grants are awarded annually as part of a federal effort to reduce the number of people living without shelter.

The funding is critical to organizations like DESC that provide services to the homeless, said executive director Daniel Malone. The organization operates several facilities designed to help people transition out of homelessness, including a shelter for alcoholics in downtown Seattle. Nationwide, HUD awarded nearly $2 billion in grants to fight the crisis.

December 21, 2016 7:17am
December 16, 2016

Mr. Trump Bullies His Way Into More Oil

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., warns the incoming Trump administration may be preparing to ?take arbitrary action? against Energy Department employees and contractors who worked on issues that include climate change and clean-energy technologies.

?The potential ramifications are chilling,? she wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. ?Federal civil service employees and government contractors may in the future be reluctant to perform certain tasks for fear that a subsequent election may bring retribution.?

Cantwell?s letter was sent in response to a request by President-elect Donald Trump?s transition team to the Energy Department. That request had 74 questions seeking documents and other information, including names of employees and contractors who participated in meetings associated with the cost of climate change.

An Energy Department spokesman on Tuesday said the names of individual employees who worked on climate change Cantwell, the ranking minority member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, requested that Moniz forward to the committee copies of all documents sent to the transition team.

December 16, 2016 7:08am
December 6, 2016

Renters Should Just Get A Job And Stop Whining

Many in Seattle are complaining about rent increases and in fact are paying 70 percent of income on housing and many don?t have enough to pay the security deposits, nonrefundable fees and upfront payments that many landlords require from incoming renters.

So whiners wanted to pass a ordinance capping the move-in money that landlords are allowed to charge and giving renters the right to pay their move-in costs in installments.

The ordinance cleared an energy and environment committee despite testimony from a dozen-plus landlords who called it unfair and said it would hurt renters rather than benefit them.

A final council vote is set for Dec. 12.

The ordinance would limit the combined cost of a security deposit and of any nonrefundable fees such as screening or cleaning fees to no more than the amount of the first month?s rent. It would also limit pet damage deposits to 25 percent of the first month?s rent.

Renters with long term leases would have the right to pay their move in costs in monthly installments or according to an alternative plan agreed to with their landlord. Month to month renters would have the right to pay in two equal installments or according to an agreed-upon alternative. Renters charged their last month?s rent upfront would have the right to pay it in installments, as well.

A University of Washington student compared renting in the University District to ?being a fish in a barrel? because the neighborhood?s landlords have the upper hand. The ordinance is an example of council members seeking to help renters by means other than overt rent control, which state law bars cities from enacting locally.

The council in August approved legislation obligating landlords to rent to qualified applicants on a first come first serve basis and banning discrimination against applicants with various non-work sources of income, such as Social Security benefits.

By capping the size of security deposits and giving renters the right to pay in installments, the ordinance would expose landlords to greater risk opponents say and that they are ?offended by the city telling me that I can?t protect my own investment.?

Some landlords said the ordinance would cause them to raise rents higher, while others warned about it pushing them to sell. That could result in modest homes torn down and replaced with pricier buildings, they said. Renters should just get a job and stop whining.

December 6, 2016 7:18am
December 1, 2016

The Affordable Care Act, Obamacare Not Popular As Libs Hoped

Grays Harbor County, along the Washington coast, is getting a lot of attention because it flipped from blue to red this election for the first time in nearly a century. Not since Herbert Hoover won back in 1928 had the county voted for the Republican, which it did this time, going hard for Donald Trump. Everything can be traced to the radiating fear and loathing against Seattle liberals.

That analysis sounds as true as any. The trouble with it, though for Grays Harbor County is that loathsome Seattle liberals were not on the ballot. The health insurance of their friends and neighbors was. A few years ago, 19 percent of the people there had no health coverage, one of the higher uninsured rates in the state. Today, only 9 percent remain uninsured.

Almost all of that improvement is because ?Obamacare? provided Medicaid coverage, for free or nearly free, for more than 8,000 Grays Harbor adults.An incredible one in five Grays Harbor adults signed up for it. That?s a sign-up rate more than double King County?s. Yet the county that?s relying on it just voted for the candidate who vowed to get rid of it.

Trump correctly promised to repeal The Affordable Care Act for the poor on the first day of his presidency. He?s lately gotten squishy on that unfortuately but on Tuesday the good Republicans in Congress signaled they intend to fulfill that pledge and their constituents will respond.

The whole point of the Medicaid expansion under ?Obamacare? was to be a safety net, to catch people when they fell or to give them health stability while they worked their way up. Bonus for the looney liberals, the program was paid for by a tax on the rich.

Now the new plan is to start the year by cutting the tax on the rich and slashing the safety net for the poor, a plan that is decades too late and as I have been advocating the cuts are way...way too shallow and not deep enough!

December 1, 2016 7:09am
November 25, 2016

Mr. Trump Taps Charter School Advocate

Billionaire GOP donor Betsy DeVos will be President-elect Donald Trump?s secretary of education, placing the Michigan native and education activist in a position to lead the agency at the helm of academic achievement in schools across the country the republican way.

DeVos, a good former Michigan Republican Party chairwoman and known as a charter school advocate and philanthropist is also chairwoman of the American Federation for Children, a group that pushes for the use of school vouchers and tax programs, a great republican idea...

In the past, DeVos has been linked to Common Core learning standards that are derided by many conservatives though she denied being a supporter in a statement on her website, referring to the math and reading guidelines used in many states as a ?federalized boondoggle.?

In terms of charter schools, DeVos has pushed for fewer regulations in her state of Michigan. She and her husband have also lead the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, a fantastic non-profit school choice advocacy group which keep local districts from being ran into the ditch.

They also have a private investment firm, the Windquest Group, which invests in technology. Those advocating for charter schools, which are not unionized, are at odds with teachers unions. This site has supported Charter Schools and not the local districts which have been ran into the ditch starting two decades ago and wastess all kinds of money and should be totally shuttered?

As chairman of the American Federation for Children, she has supported candidates who endorse using vouchers or other programs, including tax-credit scholarships, to help send children to private schools. "Above all, I believe every child, no matter their zip code or their parents? jobs, deserves access to a quality education," her website reads and totally correct in that advocacy.

November 25, 2016 7:09am
November 21, 2016

America?s Homeless Include Big Increases In Washington State

Thirteen states saw increases from 2015 to 2016. In seven, including Washington, at least half the people counted were sleeping without shelter. Washington?s number this year was smaller than in 2010 but larger than in 2007, according to the report and are mostly illegal aliens.

More than half the people tallied all across America were in one of five states, including Washington. The others were California, New York, Florida and Texas. Washington?s counts showed an increase of 1,408 people sleeping outside and in shelters the country?s second-largest bump behind California thus the tents erected along the roadways.

The Washington state counts were carried out in seven areas: Seattle-King County, Everett-Snohomish County, Tacoma-Pierce County, Spokane, Yakima, Vancouver-Clark County and the rest of Washington, its smaller, more rural communities where new arrivals like to hide.

November 21, 2016 7:19am
November 14, 2016

Seattle Remains A Sanctuary For Alien Invaders

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray promised to a large crowd gathered inside City Hall on Wednesday that Seattle will remain a sanctuary city for undocumented immigrants despite Donald Trump?s election as president, even if that means losing federal funding,

Seattle?s sanctuary status stems from a 2003 ordinance. Unless otherwise required by law or court order, the ordinance bars police officers from inquiring into a person?s immigration status without suspicion of a previously deportation or a felony.

President Trump has rightly vowed to crack down on cities that shield residents from federal immigration authorities, pledging to block federal taxpayer dollars from going to them. Police Chief O?Toole said her department's reforms are mandated by the Department of Justice.

"They are people who are struggling, and our ability to reach out and build bridges with them is the way we go forward," the mayor said, attributing the country?s volatile politics to economic inequality and anger generated by the Great Recession.

Murray admitted that he?s "very concerned" about getting funding from a Trump administration to help Seattle deal with its homelessness crisis other needs and said Seattle voters may need to approve a new levy for homeless services if Trump cuts the aliens off from all of the freebies.

"President Trump has said he wants to turn back some of our gains," said the mayor, who is gay and married himself. "We will not lose the things that we?ve gained, the rings on our fingers." Trump has lobbed harsh words at Mexico and immigrants from that country.

November 14, 2016 7:13am
November 9, 2016

President Mr. Trump Sticks It To Loony Libs

The internet predators black lives matter animals and occupy wall street weirdos will be doing what they do best, cause chaos and burn down the country they say they love so much and all because the poor little babies didn?t get their way and America didn?t cave to their phony ?racist? talk.

?President? Donald Trump, now entitled, stunned many experts who expected a victory from his rival Mrs. Clinton. This site said throughout the campaign cycle that ?President? Trump would be elected and that good, real Americans want things back and want ?America great again.?

He totally abused the liberal criminal Mrs. Clinton, the Democrat nominee, with a huge majority in the electoral college and will take office in January being the first real American to hold that office since the great George W. Bush in 2008. Republicans continued majorities in the House and Senate.

"President" Trump said shortly after [Clinton] called [him] to concede the election that ?we have to get together" while many think no way, stick it to the loons often and hard with Immigration being first on the agenda to force millions out and protect real Americans from criminals entering America.

Climate change is also a loony idea that needs to be stomped and quashed. ?President? Trump has expressed doubts about climate change and said that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement, which officially went into effect Friday and aims to reduce phony gas emissions.

The FBI should be thanked for their revelations before the election over her use of a private email account as secretary of state. Director James B. Comey said she handled classified information through her private email and ?President? Trump rightly wants to jail the liberal criminal.

November 9, 2016 7:09am
November 3, 2016

Washington State Prisoners Are Now "Students And Patients"

The left has debated for years on how to refer to prisoners even though it is unclear if any research exists on how the verbiage affects people. For a group of Republican senators however the potential legal issues such as the return of rights afforded only to legal citizens could arise with the any change in terminology, rights like owning a firearm and of course [voting]...

U.S. Congressman Dave Reichert, a former King County sheriff up for reelection on Tuesday recently said that ?victims and their loved ones should not be compromised in favor of political correctness, the state should be more concerned with the safety of our citizens than the feelings of inmates who have been proven guilty.? But the liberals seem only concerned with, feelings.

All of this started because The Washington State Department of Corrections is slowly eliminating the word ?offender? to relieve a negative social stigma connected with the term and would go so far as now requiring prison staff to now refer to prisoners in [classes] as ?students? and others such as those in prison for free medical attention as ?patients? and others as ?individuals.?

This announcement was made this week and was met with many leaders criticized the decision, saying the troubled department has enough public safety issues besides correcting semantics to pacify those who melt when a spade is called a spade. The DOC however has used ?offender? for 15 years after dropping ?inmate,? as a general term to describe prisoners of both genders.

The Washington State Legislature was never consulted citing that several statutes and The Washington State Departments Of Correction's own policies and procedures clearly designate those within the prison system are referred to as offenders, abandoning the term could create legal uncertainties about whether particular provisions continue to apply to people in prison.

November 3, 2016 7:27am
October 31, 2016

Olympians Asks To Pay Income Tax, You're Next

The Washington State Income Tax measure had been rejected several times over the past century but the voters in the state capital are at it again by deciding to place the tax on those earning above $200,000 to redistribute to public college tuition, opponents argue that Seattle activists are teeing up a test case for the courts, and are using a tax on the residents of Olympia to accomplish that goal.

Washington voters haven?t approved an income tax since1932 because it was ruled unconstitutional by The State Supreme Court the following year. In 1984, the state Legislature approved a law that [prohibits] a county, city or city county from levying a tax on net income, but like many local levies and bonds that keep failing, the elected officials and school board members keep trying.

The state Court of Appeals ruled recently that the Olympia income tax measure should appear on the ballot even as legal challenges to it continue because there would be ?ample time to litigate the issues raised after the election.? Pierce County Superior Court Judge Jack Nevin ruled earlier that the measure went beyond the scope of local initiative power and ruled it should not appear on the ballot.

The phrase ?income tax? does not appear on the ballot title, after a superior court judge ruled in favor of initiative proponents that it would be prejudicial to the proponents, so the ballot reads College Fund. Washington is one of seven states the others are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming without a personal income tax. In 2010, voters overwhelmingly defeated an income tax.

October 31, 2016 7:14am
October 28, 2016

Vote No To I-1501 And Union Control

SEIU 775 and SEIU 925 are the sole donors to the Yes on I-1501 campaign, contributing nearly $1.5 million in cash and staff time, mostly for paid signature gathering.

I-1501 ?concerns seniors and vulnerable individuals? and would increase penalties ?for criminal identity theft and civil consumer fraud,? the ballot language says. To that end, the initiative would exempt ?certain information? about in home caregivers and their clients from state public disclosure laws.

Voters might be left with the impression I-1501 is the brainchild of consumer or privacy groups in response to a surge in identity thieves bilking elderly or disabled people.

In fact, the measure was conceived and bankrolled entirely by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of a long running political and legal feud with a conservative think tank over mandatory union fees.

The Olympia based Freedom Foundation has been canvassing SEIU members to tell them they can legally stop paying dues to the union, citing the US Supreme Court?s 2014 ruling in Harris vs. Quinn that such mandatory fees violate speech rights of workers who disagree with union political activities.

Since then, Seiu 775 has lost a lawsuit and appeals seeking to block the Freedom Foundation from obtaining a list of the union?s members, who are in-home caregivers paid with Medicaid dollars under a contract negotiated with the state.

I-1501 would stymie the foundation by amending the state Public Records Act to bar disclosure of such information about SEIU 775?s 30,000 Washington in-home caregivers. It also would bar similar disclosure of information about subsidized family child-care providers represented by SEIU Local 925.

The measure?s anti fraud section would stiffen civil and criminal penalties for people who knowingly target seniors over the age of 65 or vulnerable individuals, including those receiving in home care. I, am totally convinced that the identity theft and consumer fraud portion is just a smoke screen for the public-records changes SEIU wants.

The stakes are high for unions and their opponents. The Freedom Foundation?s anti-SEIU campaign is an effort to weaken a major ally if a major ally of legislative Democrats and Gov. Jay Inslee. If enough SEIU members were to stop paying dues, the union?s political budget and clout would be blunted. Some open records advocates warn that passage of I-1501 could set a bad precedent by chipping away at access to government records.

I-1501 would bar the release of names, birth dates, addresses and other ?sensitive personal information? of the in-home caregivers and child care providers represented by the SEIU. Such information could still be released in some instances to media organizations, other government agencies and to unions representing the workers.

If passed, the initiative also would require the state Department of Social and Health Services to come up with a list, within 180 days, of additional records that ?should be made exempt from public disclosure? to protect seniors and vulnerable people from fraud.

Tricia Schroeder, executive vice president of SEIU 925, which represents thousands of family child care providers, said her members have complained of being made uncomfortable by Freedom Foundation canvassers showing up at their doorsteps.

But some child care and in home health care providers have taken advantage of their right to stop paying union dues, state data shows thousands of SEIU members have halted their payments.

While SEIU has scored higher pay and benefits for workers, some union objectors say they resent the union?s spending on mostly liberal political causes and candidates. They pour millions of dollars into getting someone elected.

In late September, after the state Supreme Court nixed SEIU 775?s final appeal in its lawsuit seeking to bar the release of in-home provider names, the Freedom Foundation got a list of some 30,000 names from the state, which it had requested in 2014.

But in a court brief seeking the injunction, attorney Paul Lawrence and two co-counsels wrote ?there is no public interest? in the release of the names, which would allow the Freedom Foundation ?to intrude? on the SEIU health-care provider and clients? homes.

October 28, 2016 7:09am

October 21, 2016

Vote No To Defamation And Unconstitutional "Tracking"...!!!

In Seattle Initiative 124 is not high profile and won?t be the section most voters complete first on the Nov. 8 ballot but the initiative which would give new rights and benefits to hotel housekeepers is getting plenty of attention from those workers, their employers and labor leaders.

The measure would require hotels to provide housekeepers with panic buttons, [track guests [accused] of harassment], limit housekeeper workloads, help thousands of low wage employees pay for health care and retain workers during ownership transfers, among other things.

The Unite Here! Local 8 hospitality workers union, which wrote and advanced I-124, argues the measure would protect a workforce of mostly immigrant women from sexual harassment and on the job injuries while helping them better provide for their families.

Opponents also say I-124 is a complicated and unhelpful measure, and claim Local 8?s main aim is to make business more difficult for non-unionized hotels in Seattle. Only 17 percent of the city?s hotel workers are unionized, according to Local 8. Unions do not care about the workers who claimed to be harassed they care about union dues.

The foes of the initiative say a provision requiring hotels to keep a list of accused guests could spawn legal problems, and note that other provisions could be waived by union workers but the supporters seem to act first and worry about the constitution second.

The initiative was written for headlines to pull at heartstrings and paint us as horrible employers and the goal isn?t to protect employees, it?s to drive union membership. There could be some defamation of the guest. The motels also have a duty to protect their staying at the facilities.

Local 8 also doesn?t truly care about workers. Only the harassment related provisions could not be waived by a worker vote in collective bargaining.

Proponents argue the waiver option would allow for flexibility in bargaining and therefore help unionized workers get what they want most, when they want it.
I-124 may expose more hotel workers in the city to the work of the union not a bad thing.

But Local 8 isn?t confident rolls would grow.

October 21, 2016 7:16am
October 17, 2016

Minimum Wage Should Be Lowered

Agricultural workers are again whining about their wages which are fairly high and an increase in the state minimum wage would mean a huge increase in everyone?s produce prices.

Several business groups oppose the initiative and for good reason also saying it could lead to higher prices and cuts in jobs and work hours?

Initiative 1433 on the November 8 2016 ballot would mean $13.50 by 2020. The first jump, from the current $9.47 to $11 an hour, would start Jan. 1.The initiative also requires paid sick leave for employees which is also unnecessary.

Labor unions and it?s workers are also running [their] mouths again of course because the increase would mean more money in their pockets.

I-1433?s idea is always a popular item, most will not be for being hard hearted. In the most recent Elway poll, conducted in August, 57 percent of Washington voters surveyed supported I-1433, with 31 percent against, and 12 percent undecided.

The supporters of the initiative give the same old tired arguments ?too many Washington parents have to choose between staying home to care for a sick child and losing a paycheck.?

Yeah Yeah Yeah?

Most of these liberal ideas come from Olympia and the greater King County area of course, Seattle also has the most anti landlord ordinances on record and now they are being turned into and known for being a tent city from all of the looney liberal welfare idiots they invited in and now living on the streets.

October 17, 2016 7:25am
October 6, 2016

This Site Supports The Collective Military, At Times

Traveling to the Pacific Northwest last month, Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft checked out the Bluebell, a 71-year-old Coast Guard tender that continues to service navigation aids along the Willamette, Columbia and Snake rivers.

Keeping the Bluebell on the water fits into a timeworn Coast Guard ethic forged by tight budgets and an aging fleet of doing more with less. But Zukunft says the Coast Guard is now in transition, gaining new vessels and aircraft at a historic pace.

?We are no longer the Rodney Dangerfield that gets no respect,? Zukunft told participants at a September harbor-safety conference in Portland. The Coast Guard is contracting for new cutters, patrol boats, fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, as well as improving home ports and airfields.

In the years ahead, that spending could bring new vessels to Washington, where the Coast Guard has a major presence and an annual operating budget that exceeds $271?million.

The mission of the Washington based fleet ranges from rescuing recreational boaters to fisheries enforcement off Alaska and drug interdictions along the coast of Central America.

The revamping of the Coast Guard fleet has long been in the making, and includes a troubled history of contract management that more than a decade ago was outsourced to private industry. Known as Deepwater, the program was saddled with waste poor design and other programs.

The single most expensive acquisition on the Coast Guard?s list is a heavy polar icebreaker. The Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this year approved $1 billion for the ship, and final congressional funding could come by the year?s end. The vessel might be ready in a decade or less.

The progress in Congress reflects broad bipartisan support for more icebreakers in an era when climate change is opening up Artic waters to tourism, cargo ships and other activity. The Department of Homeland Security in 2013 called for a fleet of six Coast Guard icebreakers, triple the number that are currently operational.

But there has been plenty of debate about what that plan for more icebreakers should look like. And there are ongoing questions about how to get through the next decade when the Coast Guard has few reliable icebreakers while a resurgent Russia maintains some 40 such vessels with more under construction.

October 6, 2016 7:27am
September 27, 2016

Yes, They Are Still After Time Eyman

The loony lefties are still after the guy who is trying to bring tax rates in Washington State under control and keep new taxes from being raised.

Tim Eyman has a whole mess of false charges hurled against him again three in fact that are about his campaign finance practices.

State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is still trying to get Eyman for taking away his free coffee and donuts and announced on Monday that he has filed complaints.

Those three false charges were filed in Thurston County Superior Court alleging ?shoddy accounting and improper disclosure of contributions? which are surely not true?

Ferguson claims three of Eyman?s political committees improperly repaid loans totaling over $1 million received from Eyman and others?failed to disclose the source of more than $100,000 in contributions?and failed to disclose spending on campaign ads and loan interest payments.

All False!

Eyman says his committees have tried to follow the law and will work to amend disclosure reports to fix any problems and is absolutely correct.

The Attorney General?s Office filed the complaints Friday, a day after announcing Eyman and his political committees had paid $20,000 in costs related to allegations that they delayed an investigation of campaign finance practices.

Hasn?t the A G got anything better to do than to keep going after this good man?

9/27/16
September 20, 2016

The Left Won?t Stop Until They Have All Of Your Money

The Loony Left is trying to enact an income tax to pay for another new college program.

A Thurston County Superior Court Judge, Anne Hirsch ordered a revision of the initiative?s written summary in response to an appeal by Opportunity for Olympia, the group behind the initiative. She ruled to striking the phrase ?income tax? from the measure to make it sound better to taxpayers.

The ?tax? language drew an immediate challenge and is now out but the loons still want a 1.5% tax on your state income.

This huge tax measure would be available to provide all or part of the cost of one year of community college tuition, or an equivalent sum to attend public universities, community colleges or technical colleges in the state, to city residents graduated from public high school or with a GED.?

One person who has been following the Opportunity for Olympia process is state, anti-tax initiative guru Tim Eyman, who told The Olympian that in all his legal battles, he has never seen such an item go to the ballot without any kind of council or legislative vote.

That vote would have come from the Olympia City Council, which has opposed the initiative because of the costly legal challenge that would follow if voters approve the unprecedented proposal for an income tax, which is prohibited in Washington state.

Despite being required by law to send the initiative to the ballot, the council chose not to act at all, which forced the matter into court.

?It?s almost like they?re making up rules as they go,? Eyman said. ?The initiative process isn?t really about creating a law,? Eyman said. ?It?s about lobbying your public officials to get what you want.?

9/20/16
September 16, 2016

Once Again Jim A. Jones and Mike Chapman Spend Too Much

This site was the only local media warning of the upcoming budget mess that Clallam County Administrator Jim A. Jones and Commissioner Mike Chapman were creating?

Oh boy?times were getting better, goodie, more tax money to spend on highways byways and all kinds of ways including taxpayer funds for the drug addicted and welfare transients now increasingly infesting Clallam County.

Even after this latest crisis Jones however will keep his job and Chapman, what else, will move on to higher office why, because the county and the country for that matter consists of two types of people, the addicted that are too drugged to have any concern whatsoever and the collective Chamber Of Commerce Crowd together with those who wine and dine together all not wanting to make waves hoping nothing will ever change.

The County?s 2017 budget, like prior years, shows a $2.4 million dollar shortfall. County department heads will be asked to cut down on the coffee and donuts but we have heard that story before in fact this site was rightly critical for the decision to eliminate the reduced work hour schedule of which the union workers of course disdained wanting and caring only about [their] union hours and snack trays.

To balance the budget, new hires, attrition and layoffs are part of this new county crisis and under consideration but we have heard that before, Selinda Barkhuis and others will be bitching again if anyone dares to cut [their] budget and the same can be said by anyone that might have their break times reduced, it certainly isn?t? because they are afraid they, the union workers, might not have time to help taxpayers, have any of you in the last decade or so reached out for help from a county worker only to be told to go to look up the requested information yourself?

The mantra at the time of the reduced hours policy was that the taxpayers were complaining about access but soon got used to it and made adjustments in lieu of higher taxes of which this county can not sustain given the new, coming recession.

9/16/16
September 15, 2016

Bill Bryant Good Gov Sleezy Bad

The good Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bill Bryant plans are to pursue small business tax breaks and freeze on new regulations.

Bryant, who is challenging Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee, said he would push state government to innovate and unleash more private sector job growth.

A former Port of Seattle commissioner who founded a trade consulting business, Bryant said he?s heard business owners across the state complain about stifling regulations that have amassed over decades.

On Day One as governor, Bryant said he?d halt all new regulations until agencies could justify those already on the books. Unnecessary rules would be ?fixed or eliminated,? he said, while new ones would have a sunset date.

This site agrees of course?

Recalling his own firm?s humble start in a basement with a fax machine, Bryant said he sympathizes with small businesses that pay the state?s business and occupation (B&O) tax, which is levied on gross receipts instead of profits.

Bryant vowed to work with business groups and legislators to give businesses with fewer than 10 employees a B&O tax break. He did not provide details on the size of the tax break or impact on the state budget.

Bryant also reiterated his opposition to a ?one size fits all? increase in the state minimum wage, saying other parts of the state should not have the same wage floor as the booming and expensive Seattle area.

Again this site agrees, the minimum wage hike is way too much?

He opposes Initiative 1433 a measure on the November ballot that would raise the minimum wage to $13.50 an hour by 2020 and require businesses to provide paid sick leave.

Gov Sleezy supports the labor backed initiative?

Washington is a very liberal state in it?s mid section so Gov Sleezy will get his way.

9/15/16
September 7, 2016

Washington State Wants Your Guns

The recent killings of three teenagers in Mukilteo spurred state Attorney General Bob Ferguson to go off the deep end and propose legislation next year to ban the sale of military style assault weapons and high capacity magazines in Washington.

Ferguson announced his proposal with plenty of loony democrats by his side.

The legislation has not yet been written but the loony eft wants to ban military style semi automatic weapons like the AR-15 rifle.

Ferguson, who proposes several bills a year, acknowledged that an assault weapons ban would be difficult to pass several other recent gun control measures have failed in the Legislature.

The gun lobby will certainly have something to say about the hard left turn by the loons to take away you rights.

Congress passed a nationwide ban on assault weapons in 1994; it expired in 2004. Seven states and the District of Columbia have some form of assaultweapon ban, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

People still get murdered however and not by the AR-15, so this is simple loony liberalism?

In June,the U S Supreme Court declined to review challenges to assault weapons ban in New York and Connecticut, allowing the bans to stand. The court had previously allowed an assault-weapons ban in a Chicago suburb to stand.

9/7/16
August 31, 2016

Watch Your Back, Terrorists Are Coming To WA ST

Washington State has received 115 which may not sound like much, but it triples the number we?d taken in here since 2003, Washington has accepted 2,408 refugees from 24 countries through the first 10 months of the government?s fiscal year which makes us seventh in the nation..

Texas has become home to 534 Syrian refugees since November 2015.
More than 30 governors rightly declared their states to be ?no Syrian refugee zones.?

Here in Washington State much of the Republican party called on Gov. Jay Inslee to stop accepting any evacuees fleeing the war torn countries and were backed by voters and many also want Gov Sleezy impeached.

It is very obvious, and has been a mantra of this site and correctly so, that it is being done solely for new democrat voters and because good Americans such as myself have been successful at busting lazy union members that have been almost entirely eliminated.

The educated right wing GOP that are smart enough to see the coming problems point to the fact that this influx is a way for terrorists to get into the country posing as refugees.

Yet because the left is so desperate now to make up the loss of left leaning states due to GOP gains in recent years the refugees are a way to make new voters terrorism be damned.

But the real story, the one that matters in the end is that many of you don?t care about the influx until it affect you directly, you quietly live your lives not wanting to seem racist, a mantra that the left is great at because they lack the ability to hold an educated argument and you think, because the left is good at mixing in the mixed breed mutts into society, that the influx just a bunch of cute little brown people...

8/31/16
August 29, 2016

Gov Jay Sleezy Takes Credit

The Sleezy Gov. Jay Inslee is now taking credit for a legislative act that has slashed tuition for public college students.

Tuition costs fell between 5 and 20 percent over two years at public colleges and universities a move that drew national attention as Washington became the only state to lower tuition across the board.

Inslee has bragged about those savings in campaign ads and speeches but how much credit should he take for a policy that first came from the opposing party?The tuition rollback idea came from state Senate Republicans, who put the proposal in their 2015-17 state budget plan last year one upping Inslee and House Democrats who had offered to freeze tuition.

Inslee and other Democrats also demanded the GOP pay for any tuition cut with new revenue, instead of relying on widely criticized budget gimmicks but were, as this site first put forth, great and reasonable ideas of course.

8/29/16
August 24, 2016

Oso Corrupt

The March 22, 2014, collapse of a hillside along the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River unleashed a devastating landslide that killed 43 people in the Steelhead Haven community.

A significant part of the case centers on actions by the state including the construction of a cribwall and a sediment pond that the lawsuit alleges increased the risks to residents.

A lawsuit seeking damages as a result of the slide is scheduled for trial this fall. It is expected to involve one of the largest tort claims in Washington, with the state, Snohomish County and Grandy lake Forest Associates as defendants.

Attorneys representing victims and family members in the 2014 Oso landslide have accused state lawyers of orchestrating ?a fraud? to keep secret any word of deleted emails sent among defense expert witnesses.

That charge was filed Tuesday.

A spokesman for the state Attorney General?s Office said Tuesday the plaintiff?s 30 page motion is still under review, and that a response will be made public when it is filed soon with the court.

The plaintiffs, in their brief, say they obtained some of the emails shared among the expert witnesses that mistakenly weren?t deleted. They allege the emails show the experts, who eventually expanded to a seven person team, were ?constantly shifting their story in service of the state?s defense.?

?What we will never know is the true depth of this deceit, because the vast majority of emails were destroyed and will never see the light of day,? the plaintiffs? attorneys wrote.

The state?s expert witnesses include a forestry hydrologist and engineers who collaborated on producing a report given to the court June 30.

The plaintiffs? attorneys say they repeatedly alerted state attorneys that they expected to subpoena communications among the consultants. They allege the state?s fraud entailed trying to cover up the deletion of the emails.

8/24/16
August 16, 2016

Democrats Lead All Of The State Polls

Democrat Patty Murry holds a huge 18 point lead in her re-election bid over Republican Chris Vance in a new statewide poll.

The left is where it is at and will be for some time to come considering all of the money they are pick pocketing from the voters who are too incompetent to try something new.

Murray garnered 52 percent support, to Vance?s 34 percent, with 14 percent undecided, according to the poll released Tuesday by Seattle based Elway Research.

That?s the same lead Murray had in April, noted pollster Stuart Elway, who wrote "given the math and the stability of the support levels, time is running out for Vance to deny Murray a 5th term ?"

The poll also found that Democrats still dominate the state especially in the mid state King County area leading some other statewide executive races with the exception of secretary of state, in which incumbent Republican Kim Wyman is ahead of Democratic challenger Tina Podlodowski, a former Seattle City Council member.

Washington is and will be a liberal state for the foreseeable future so hang on to your wallets, perhaps the failure of The Affordable Care Act, often called "obama care" and no I didn?t forget to capitalize the "O" I have never used the higher case O for his name, he will never get [that] much respect from [me] anyway for that way he and the left have destroyed the country.

Get ready for a decades of terrorism perpetrated by all of those he and the liberal loons are letting into America with very little vetting why, so we can all be one big happy world of course?

8/16/16
August 15, 2016

Tim Eyman Is Driving The Left Even Loonier

A Liberal Snohomish County Superior Court judge has ruled that Tim Eyman and his political committees violated her order to turn over documents by a court ordered deadline as part of an investigation of campaign finance practices, but deferred ruling on whether to hold them in contempt.

This site disagrees with the ruling of course and thinks that Tim Eyman is a great man who is just misunderstood?

In an outrageous order issued Friday, Judge Ellen J. Fair granted Attorney General Bob Ferguson the authority to seek documents directly from the federal government and the banks of Eyman?s committees which is clearly a fishing expedition witch hunt.

Eyman has proposed numerous tax limiting initiatives over the years and the loony left just can?t stand it. Last fall, the state Public Disclosure Commission thinks it had discovered several potential violations of campaign finance law.

The findings included allegations Eyman used $170,000 in contributions to a political committee for living expenses which was totally false, he would not do such a thing.

A Thurston County court is set to hold a separate contempt hearing Aug. 26. There?s also a hearing Aug. 31 in Snohomish related to the attorney general?s motion for attorneys? fees an it is hoped that that request will be denied.

Eyman attorney Mark Lamb said his clients have cooperated with the investigation for the past four years and all of the evidence points to that fact and Lamb is exactly correct.

8/15/16
August 11, 2016

Perhaps The Thing Will Be Put Out Of It?s Union Misery

The local paper plant that has had operational problems, high construction costs and bloated union membership and court settlements is for sale.

The union bloated Nippon Paper Industries plant has also destroyed the great views in Port Angeles and with any luck will close and be bulldozed in the same fashion as the Gales Addition neighbors were a few years ago and end at least a portion of union membership in Washington State.

The Port of Port Angeles is being encouraged to purchasing the outdated pile of garbage according to emails.

Port Executive Director Karen Goschen is actually considering the offer in order to keep local unions members fat, lazy and taking taxpayers money which will happen if the local governments take control of the worthless plant and it?s overly high pay and benefits but claims she and the Port are not interested in becoming the mill?s new owner.

Millions have been wasted over the past few years in keeping the unions happy and working as this site has claimed, but what else would the unions do beside sit home on their asses as they do while at work but the difference is, at home, they would be on food stamps not collecting bloated union pay checks.

Greg Pallesen, Union International Vice President has yet to comment on this report.

Port Angeles Manager Dan McKeen said Thursday that he is hoping that Nippon does not close it?s door because it pays $450,000 a year in electric utility taxes.

Nippon is the only maker of telephone book paper in the United States, has anyone looked at the local phone book in recent years, another union masterpiece.

8/11/16
August 5, 2016

Marty McClendon Advancing

As the Washington State?s primary votes continued to be counted, it appears an unabashed conservative, in WA ST mind you, Marty McClendon is advancing to the general election in the lieutenant governor?s race

McClendon, 49, of Gig Harbor, said he?s ?representing a voice that?s not getting represented right now.?

In fact, McClendon argues he could be the Mike Pence for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant. Bryant, a former Port of Seattle commissioner trying to keep Jay Inslee from a second term, recently vowed in a TV ad to take a nonpartisan approach as governor.

Marty McClendon is a pastor, real estate agent, conservative radio host, husband and father of three new to politics and huge supporter of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

McClendon introduces himself as a ?strong fiscal conservative? who described state government as ?broken,? he had challenged Derick Kilmer earlier and lost and in 2014, he challenged Kilmer again, this time for the 6th District congressional seat but lost again.

Most of the lieutenant governor?s description entails filling in when the governor is out of state, and presiding over the state Senate.

McClendon said he would also see himself as a voice of the people. For example, when the Legislature isn?t in session, he could meet with ordinary people, and return to Olympia with ideas on how to reduce regulations.

His opponents describe McClendon as so conservative, he doesn?t match where the state is politically.

This site thinks he is [not conservative] enough...

The general election will put McClendon theories to the test. As of Wednesday, the four Democrats had so far captured about 55 percent of the overall primary vote.

8/5/16
August 1, 2016

Boeing Slowing Union Workers And Their High Pay To Blame Again

The 747 was a big airplane with its distinctive shape, 225 feet long and as tall as a six story building, gracefully descending. In those days, TWA operated a 747 between Chicago and Phoenix to handle increased passenger demand, one of the reasons the big airplane was built.

In the glory days, according to the company?s historical snapshot, The 747 was the result of the work of some 50,000 union Boeing construction workers, mechanics, engineers, secretaries and administrators who made aviation history by building the 747 the largest civilian airplane in the world in less than 16 months during the late 1960s.

But times change, unions have become as bloated as the members themselves

By 2015, 1,500 of the planes had come off the line in Everett, equipping airlines around the world, including Air Force One. But aside from the latter, one hardly ever sees 747s at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Although it?s the 10th busiest airport in the country, 737s and smaller Airbus models are the norm, and therein lies the tale.

The needs of the industry have changed, and Boeing has warned it may stop the 747 production. The line producing the plane employs 2,000, but in January Boeing said it may cut one a month production in half. Development of a new freighter version coincided with a downturn in global freight demand.

Other changes include the massive Airbus double deck A380 which has been a bust. The industry?s economics call for smaller airplanes on more, and more flexible, routes operating from hubs, as well as new breakthroughs such as the 787.

8/1/16
July 27, 2016

Background Checks And Endorsements

The organization that successfully fought for expanded gun purchase background checks in a 2014 ballot measure is diving into this year?s elections with candidate endorsements.

The Alliance for Gun Responsibility on Tuesday announced 39 endorsements for legislative candidates before the Aug. 2 primary.

And the advocacy organization, backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and some of the state?s wealthiest citizens, will be spending money on its candidates.

The organization is giving $1,000 each to 28 of its endorsed candidates, said spokeswoman Joanna Paul. A handful of others will receive smaller amounts.

The alliance this year is also sponsoring Initiative 1491, which would allow family members and police to petition a court to keep firearms from people who pose an extreme risk of violence.

The endorsed candidates support I-1491 and are committed in other ways to prevent gun violence and strengthen gun regulation laws, according to a news release by the alliance.

There are a lot of legislators who want to take action on this issue and say it's an issue candidates will want and need to campaign on this year.

Those receiving $1,000 donations include Sen. Mark Mullet, D-Issaquah, whom Republicans hope to unseat, and Democrat Tim Probst, who is running for an open seat in Southwest Washington.

The winners of those two seats could help decide the fate of the senate, which has a slim Republican majority.

Democrats from districts considered safe are also receiving $1,000 donations, including Senators Reuven Carlyle and Jamie Pedersen of Seattle, and Sen. Andy Billig of Spokane.

Just like its 2014 push for expanded background checks, the alliance is funded this year in part by Everytown Gun Safety, Bloomberg?s advocacy group. Everytown has donated more than $500,000 to the alliance, according to campaign disclosure records.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Baller and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer have each donated $500,000 or more to the alliance this year.

On Wednesday in Seattle, another organization pushing for stronger gun regulations will announce its own campaign.

Washington Ceasefire, along with its counterpart Ceasefire Oregon, are scheduled to announce efforts to ban military style assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips in both states.

The efforts to strengthen gun laws come as the issue of firearms has become largely a nonstarter in Olympia.

The legislative gridlock over guns in recent years prompted the Alliance for Gun Responsibility?s 2014 push for Initiative 594, which expanded background checks to private firearms sales and transfers, such as some conducted online or at gun shows.

7/27/16
July 25, 2016

Vance Has No Chance

In an election that?s given us presidential candidates bragging about the size of their hands, Chris Vance wants to talk about compromise, more specifically Simpson-Bowles, which is not a virus or scandal, but a dusty bipartisan plan to reduce national debt.

Vance, a Republican challenging incumbent U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, has made the $19?trillion debt the top priority of his low-budget, ?pissed off moderate? campaign that?s heavy on issue papers and attacks on ?hyperpartisan gridlock.?

A former chairman of the state Republican Party, Vance contends Murray, a four-term Democrat, is the kind of entrenched politician responsible for congressional dysfunction and gridlock.

For Vance, it?s a way of trying to appeal to angry voters, including a big slice of them who might be turned off by his ?Never Trump? stance.

Murray has anticipated that line of criticism. Most of her statement in the state Voter?s Guide addresses her efforts to ?break through the gridlock? on two issues. With considerable fan fare, she worked with House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2013 on a federal budget to avert a government shutdown. Last year, she teamed with Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander to rewrite the maligned federal education law known as No Child Left Behind.

When she met with the GOP?s Ryan, she said, ?the first thing we talked about was how we had to restore respect in this country to a democracy that says compromise is OK.?

Vance may face a bigger challenge than poking through Murray?s defense. Some question if he?ll be able to reach enough voters with his message. Vance has raised $293,000 in campaign contributions, compared with Murray?s $11.4 million (with Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing employees accounting for her top contributors).

?He really doesn?t have the resources to make his argument to the point that people are going to hear it, because he?s not going to be able to go big time on TV,? said Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University. A GOP challenger needs $8 million to $10 million to run a competitive statewide race against an incumbent like Murray in a Democratic leaning state, Donovan said.

Forecasters at respected publications such as the Cook Political Report, The Hill and The Washington Post don?t list the race as competitive.

7/25/16
July 15, 2016

The Mansion Likely To Remain Occupied By The Mid State Liberals

Washington voters have elected Democratic governors into office since 1985, but in the last three election periods, the winning party won by a small margin. Additionally, Democratic Governor Jay Inslee's low approval ratings with voters may put him in danger of losing the governor's seat a 2015 poll found that he had only a nine point lead over Republican Bill Bryant in a hypothetical general election match up.

Washington has a divided government. Democrats hold the governorship and a one seat majority in the state house; Republicans hold a one seat majority in the state house.

This site has also identified both chambers of the state legislature as battle ground chambers in the 2016 elections, leaving the state vulnerable to a shift in party control.

At this point the view is that there will not be a change in the mansion.

7/15/16
July 13, 2016

Usually I Would Like A Union Member In Hot Water?

This site [agrees] with the statement posted on the Facebook page of Ron Smith.

Ron Smith is president of the Seattle Police Officers? Guild and after the loony LGBT left and supporters of every minority mongrel on the planet whined about his comments is now caving and resigning over the post that spoke to the deaths of five police officers in Dallas Texas last week.

Smith cited the he did not want to become a distraction over his Facebook post that read ?The hatred of law enforcement by a minority movement is disgusting.?

Smith wrote in subsequent posts: ?What the post was meant to say is that it is disgusting that a small segment of society perpetuates violence toward law enforcement officers across this country.

Smith was one of the few, [good] union members?

7/13/16
July 7, 2016

The Liberals Are Whining About Tim Eyman Again, Want More Taxes

The liberals are whining again and trying to halt the efforts of Tim Eyman to bring a more fair tax system to the voters of Washington State and recommending that the state Attorney General?s Office take action on another set of campaign-disclosure allegations made against anti-tax activist.

Campaigns are required to disclose independent expenditures against candidates and also must have a special disclaimer tag for such ads. The PDC investigation alleges Eyman?s campaign did neither on some of the videos.

The investigation also found that the disclaimer tag on the ads listing the top five donors for the committee may have been incorrect.

The complaint is what the PDC calls a citizen-action complaint, and the agency doesn?t make a decision on penalties for those, according to PDC spokeswoman Lori Anderson.

But in its investigation, PDC staff recommended that the Washington state Attorney General?s Office take action on the allegations.

The PDC is scheduled to discuss the casein a special meeting scheduled for Friday.

In an email, Eyman attorney Mark Lamb wrote that, ?At no time was the public, the press, or legislators deprived of their right to know who was sponsoring and paying for these web videos.?

But, ?Following the complaint my clients sought additional advice from the PDC and, once advice was given, in both instances amended forms were filed soon after,? Lamb added.

The Attorney General?s Office already is investigating Eyman in an unrelated case stemming from 2012 that also alleges campaign disclosure violations.

7/7
June 23, 2016

Attorney Pamela Lindquist Takes Over For Neupert Gives Free Advice

Apparently Pamela Lindquist, Port Angeles attorney or at least she calls herself one, has taken over the Stephan M. Prescher case from Mr. David Neupert who is seeking the Superior Court Judgeship in Clallam County.

The young couple, which includes Kailee M. Prescher 23, are guilty of harassment and went over to the Lindquist?s home which doubles as Pamela?s office Wednesday June 15 2016 for free advice.

The couple lives across the street from the Lindquists and using the "neighbor convenience" to receive "free advice" of which they should be careful about, Pamela has also shown that [she] is a few marbles short of a full bag.

The Lindquists, if you remember from prior posts headlined under the ?most viewed? below, were scolded by police themselves for sticking their noses in other cases that did not concern them when the same victim of the Preschers was landscaping his own yard when Pamela and her mother came out and yelled at the man for trimming a shrub which was on city right of way and not belonging to them the Lindquists or the house sitters Stephan and Kailee Prescher and before they, the Preschers even moved in.

That action of trimming a shrub did not concern the Lindquists nor the Preschers nor would any other actions not concerning either directly.

The busybodied Lindquists were shouting to see if the man, using simple hand tools, knew where the survey markers were...a man that had built a fence 30 years prior on the exact marked boundary of which the markers were put in place and are still in place today and long before the mentally unstable Lindquist clan, moved in.

Old lady Lindquist was befriended by the owners, slumlords of the Prescher's rental upon taking over the property after the brother of one of the owners, the Francisco's, had died and apparently felt kinship with another senile old women.

The Preschers, like others before them, also seem to be getting bad advice.

There are two other court orders governing the behavior of two past occupants who also tried to harass the same man, the orders are permanent.

No conduct other than what is currently directed at the Preschers if any, will be relevant in an harassment case filed against them.

Stephan M. Prescher also now has another law enforcement encounter on June 10, 2016, his first law enforcement contact locally was within minutes of arriving in Port Angeles from Michigan, the couple?s home state and within the same time frame of the first unlawful conduct directed at the man next door.

Pamela Lindquist also made a run at the local court system, District Court Judge in which Judge Porter cleaned her clock, badly.

6/23/16

RCW 10.14.020

Definitions.

(1) "Course of conduct" means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of acts over a period of time, however short, evidencing a continuity of purpose. "Course of conduct" includes, in addition to any other form of communication, contact, or conduct, the sending of an electronic communication, but does not include constitutionally protected free speech. Constitutionally protected activity is not included within the meaning of "course of conduct.

(2) "Unlawful harassment" means a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person which seriously alarms, annoys, harasses, or is detrimental to such person, and which serves no legitimate or lawful purpose. The course of conduct shall be such as would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and shall actually cause substantial emotional distress to the petitioner,

RCW 10.14.030

Course of conduct?Determination of purpose.

In determining whether the course of conduct serves any legitimate or lawful purpose, the court should consider whether:

(1) Any current contact between the parties was initiated by the respondent only or was initiated by both parties;

(2) The respondent has been given clear notice that all further contact with the petitioner is unwanted;

(3) The respondent's course of conduct appears designed to alarm, annoy, or harass the petitioner;

(4) The respondent is acting pursuant to any statutory authority,

RCW 9.73.030

Intercepting, recording, or divulging private communication?Consent required?Exceptions.

(b) which convey threats of extortion, blackmail, bodily harm, or other unlawful requests or demands, or (c) which occur anonymously or repeatedly or at an extremely inconvenient hour;

(3) Where consent by all parties is needed pursuant to this chapter, consent shall be considered obtained whenever one party has announced to all other parties engaged in the communication or conversation, in any reasonably effective manner, that such communication or conversation is about to be recorded or transmitted:

6/23/16
June 13, 2016

Attorney And Superior Court Candidate David Neupert Unable To Properly And Successfully Advise His Clients

David Neupert seeks the position of Clallam County Superior Court Judge but apparently the local attorney can?t even control his own clients.

Mr. Neupert has been contacted many times regarding one of his clients who is getting increasingly out of control.

A couple had inherited a home in Port Angeles after the brother of the wife of the couple had died back in the early 2010s. The couple still lives in Michigan and was using the home as a twice a year get away.

Since September 2013 the now slum lords have allowed extended family to house sit the residence as a temporary home after their recent fairy tale of a wedding which has since turned into a nightmare.

Early in their occupation of the home, a Stephan M. Prescher, 30, immediately displayed his mental capacity or lack thereof and ordered the man next door to come over and collect the debris that had fallen on Prescher?s side of the fence line after a hedge trimming.

Apparently Prescher had no statutory authority at that point or at any point really to order anyone to do anything with in mind he, they, were not at that point, if ever, paying any rent.

Also keep in mind that the Preschers are not yard people considering the yard is not maintained with broken glass and dog bombs left for weeks.

Other events followed including Prescher setting up a net in his back yard to chip golf balls at the man's house and garage, three of which are still in the man?s possession in a sealed baggy.

The latest contact with Mr. Neupert was back in April 2016 when he was to ask the Preschers, including wife Kailee M. 23, to not be disorderly again over the hedge trimming that separates the two homes, trimming that the man takes great care to not let debris fall on their side of the fence.

Precious little debris falls in the rental property?s yard but Prescher seems to have a short fuse and quick temper which in this sites?s opinion and with evidence to substantiate, was why the owners sent him to this location, to harass the neighbor(s).

Neupert was warned of all of this and that the man, neighbor, was also in fear for the safety of Prescher's wife Kailee as well.

Sunday June 5 Prescher arrives home and within seconds Prescher immediately yells out at the neighbor for making even the slighest of noises saying ?that?s pretty bad dude? and his wife then threatened to ?call the police? over a the man?s phone bell being a bit too loud for [their] comfort.

Thursday June 9, 2016 the Preschers arrive home and start arguing outside with Prescher saying ?you are the ??I have met in my life,? the first part was not picked up?he then leaves, comes back burning his tires yelling at his wife threatening ?I promise you that, I promise you that.?

I then overheard her say that she "wanted to go back home? to Michigan...

Stephan M. Prescher is an ex marine and in this contributor's opinion, not only has a screw loose but suffers from PMSD.

Friday June 10 approximately 5:15pm Prescher arrives home upon getting out of his truck accuses, yelling at the man, neighbor, ?what happened to my cat?..what did you do with my cat, what about that?..?

The man was in his own house, never stepped out and has not had any verbal contact with either Prescher or his wife Kailee other than responding to the September 2013 hedge trimming incident, and the subsequent golf ball incident.

Prescher and wife then left for the weekend but not before stopping out in front of the man?s home and glared in the man?s windows in an intimidating and alarming manner then slowly drove by with a looks could kill stare.

June 12 early afternoon within seconds of arriving back home Prescher once again throws hedge debris over the fence.

Stephan M. Prescher is showing signs of being mentally disurbed.

If Mr. Neupert has not gotten the message by now maybe this post will make it perfectly clear...

Under statute RCW 10.14 it is to be asked that any verbal or direct contact by either Prescher is unwarranted unwanted and action will be taken with in mind that in Washington State the recording of voices is allowed if there is no right to privacy of which videos certainly fit that definition.

RCW 10.14.020

Definitions.

RCW 10.14.030

Course of conduct?Determination of purpose.

In determining whether the course of conduct serves any legitimate or lawful purpose, the court should consider whether:

(1) Any current contact between the parties was initiated by the respondent only or was initiated by both parties;

(2) The respondent has been given clear notice that all further contact with the petitioner is unwanted;

(3) The respondent's course of conduct appears designed to alarm, annoy, or harass the petitioner;

(4) The respondent is acting pursuant to any statutory authority,

RCW 9.73.030

Intercepting, recording, or divulging private communication?Consent required?Exceptions.

(b) which convey threats of extortion, blackmail, bodily harm, or other unlawful requests or demands, or (c) which occur anonymously or repeatedly or at an extremely inconvenient hour;

6/13/16
June 8, 2016

Tim Eyman Strikes Back, Has Money Now, Lots Of It Lets Hope For A Recession

Tim Eyman has had some setbacks over time here in liberal Washington State but with the threat of a new recession perhaps some tax and budget cutting may actually and finally get accomplished now?recessions are [good] things?

Tim Eyman also now has a billionaire on his side, Ken Fisher a multi billionaire.

His political bent could be gleaned right away when he was asked about a state income tax and threatened to never do business in WA ST.

That?s some Eyman language right there adn this site is very happy!

The two soon found one another, with Fisher giving $100,000 to Eyman?s Initiative 1366 that sought to coerce the Legislature into passing a tax limiting constitutional amendment. This winter, Fisher pledged $600,000, in the form of a loan, to Eyman?s next initiative to hamstring the Legislature from raising taxes.

It means Eyman is hardly dead. He may be in a stronger position than ever particularly if Republicans were to lose the state Senate this fall. ?Everything I?ve been working on for the past 16 years is coming to a head in 2017? Eyman enthuses.

He cited the Legislature possibly imposing a capital gains tax (Fisher and a Vancouver Wash developer, Clyde Holland, are bankrolling him largely to oppose that). Plus he believes there will be continued outrage about tolls, along with sticker shock over car tabs after the Sound Transit light rail campaign this fall. Hence his new plan for an initiative slashing those items called ?We Love Our Cars.?

?Both guys admire my persistence? said Eyman. Because the GOP doesn?t win statewide, narrow Republican control of the state Senate gives you a toehold on state policy, but that comes and goes.

So Eyman, for all his legally dubious proposals and self inflicted wounds, amazingly remains about your only game in town.

And now he?s landed his first billionaire. Which means, sorry to say it, liberals: This could be your last Eyman free year for a while?

?and this site couldn?t be happier with that news and, a possible recession.

6/8/16

June 8, 2016