Keep in mind that YOURSenator Margarita Prentice is the chair of this committee. Keep that in mind when she’s up for re-election.
$9.6 million annual car insurance increase moves forward
The Senate Ways and Means Committee took executive action yesterday on SB 6871. Along with increasing court filing fees the proposal would also add a surcharge to car insurance policies to fight auto theft. According to the I-960 fiscal impact statement, the new charge is expected to collect $9.6 million annually from auto policyholders.
Keep in mind this is not the first time that the City of Renton has pulled this kind of stuff. They have done it with the Fairwood annexation and to quote someone at Renton City Hall, “we’ll take Fairwood when we are ready”.
The other thing to keep in mind is we still have the opportunity to vote. If you don’t like how your Renton City Council members voted, vote them out at the next election. Marcie Palmer was the only one that stood up against the annexation. If you see her around town (and most of us do), tell her thank you for trying to keep control of our library in Renton.
If you are considering a run for Renton City Council, stay tuned to this site. We’ll share with you all the tricks the incumbents pull to keep their power.
The following Renton City Council members are up for re-election in 2011 (assuming they run again).
Councilmember Marcie Palmer
Councilmember Don Persson
Councilmember King Parker
Councilmember Greg Taylor
Three of the four members above voted for the annexation. Remember this.
A group known as Save Renton Library recently hired an attorney to try to overturn the result of an election earlier this month that allows the city’s library to be merged into the King County Library System.
By Sonia Krishnan
Seattle Times staff reporter
Fifty-three votes.
That’s all it took for the Renton Public Library to merge into the King County Library System. It was the closest result in February’s election, and the changeover is expected to start Monday.
But a group of library-loving residents has a message for Renton officials: Not so fast.
Known as Save Renton Library, the group recently hired an attorney to try to overturn the outcome, in which the final count was 6,395 yes to 6,342 no.
Read the rest of the story at the Seattle Times and don’t forget to visit Vote No ‘Til You Know to keep up with the current library annexation situation.
But yet Frank Chopp wants a “toxic materials tax”? Does he not realize that that by jacking up the tax on oil it will impact everyone?
Are we noticing a theme here? The Democrats are in an all out push to ram tax increases down our throats. They don’t get it. Cut spending. Families across the state have had to do that. It’s time to put Olympia on a diet. If they don’t lose the pounds, we’ll toss them out just like they do on The Biggest Loser.
Posted By Brad Shannon on March 1, 2010 at 9:56 am at The News Tribune.
We’ll know more by noon, but polling done for the House Democratic Campaign Committee showed only 28 percent voter support for using a sales-tax to bridge a piece of the state’s $2.8 billion budget shortfall.
Democratic Rep. Ross Hunter of Medina is laying out his tax plans during the lunch hour. He’ll add to the roughly $385 million that his tax-loopholes bill, House Bill 3176, would raise. But he was mum about details yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Rep. Sam Hunt, the Olympia Democrat who chairs the HDCC, said yesterday the poll results are a reason he is now leaning against the sales tax. Hunt did not share other poll results but they were part of a discussion House Democrats had as a caucus Thursday night.
At this point, there’s not question that the Democrats in Olympia are going for broke. They know they are going to get voted out in November so they are trying to ram everything they can through now. Don’t let them forget what they’ve done to us come November.
Posted by Jim Brunner
OLYMPIA — Democrats on the House Ways & Means Committee this afternoon voted to eliminate funding for a state ethics watchdog.
The Washington State Executive Ethics Board investigates complaints against public employees accused of misusing state computers and other resources. It also trains state workers on ethics rules.
But in voting to ax the board’s $492,000 budget for 2011, some House Democrats said they don’t think the panel is particularly busy and could be sacrificed given the state budget crisis.
The ethics panel’s money comes out of Attorney General Rob McKenna’s budget.
As we said before. Just when we were getting used to I-405 actually moving, the idiots in Olympia are going to increase the carpool lane requirements from 2 to 3.
They just don’t get it. Vote them all out and start over.
Somebody needs to tell the folks in Issaquah that their bill will not go down with this new found “efficiency”.
Even with the trash pickup every other week our bill is still the same.
ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A trashy situation could raise a stink in cities and towns across King County. The Cedar Hills landfill is filling up fast, so the county wants you to put our your trash every other week.
The goal is to get more of your garbage in the yard waste and recycling bins and less in the trash cans.
“I would characterize it as a chance to be more efficient,” said Kevin Kiernan with King County Solid Waste.
We noticed this News Tribune site. Just ask any Renton Police officer. They will not report illegal aliens to ICE or even arrest them.
If we want to cut the state budget, stop providing services to people that don’t pay taxes.
We are beginning to make people prove they are citizens before we hire them. Why aren’t we making them prove they are citizens (and paying taxes) before we give them free social services? And for those of you that think the services are “free”. They aren’t. You pay for them with YOUR tax dollars.
Yakima Police Chief San Granato says his officers will not participate in a federal program that grants local police authority to arrest immigration violators.
Granato says it would discourage some people from calling police for help, if they feared they could be deported.
The Yakima Herald-Republic reports Granato made his comments this week in a conference call organized by the Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State House Democrats want to raise about $760 million in taxes by closing a long list of sales and business tax exemptions and collecting more money from smokers, bankers, lawyers and accountants.
The House tax plan, announced Monday, is the latest of three proposals from state leaders as they seek to bridge a $2.8 billion state budget deficit
