In a historic day at the Washington State Legislature last Monday, the Democratic Party – who have a majority in both the Washington State Senate and the Washington State House of Representatives changed political course and joined with the Republicans to pass three initiatives to the Legislature on one day. We’ll discuss the historic implications of this event below.
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Here is a video we produced about this a few days ago:
Last week, this outcome was becoming more obvious due to the sudden shift in Democrat Party tactics, when they decided to hold public hearings on three of the proposed six initiatives which had been submitted to the Washington State legislature a few months ago by the historic successful signature gathering effort launched by Let’s Go Washington, Sponsored by Brian Heywood PAC :
In addition to these videos, we also produced earlier videos on this subject and you can view any of these videos here:
There are more videos if you want to watch some of the information we’ve been posting recently about these issues and others in Washington State, and I’d encourage you to go to our YouTube channel linked here.
Making History Today
However, let’s discuss the historic nature of this recent successful signature effort by the Let’s Go Washington folk and all the people who helped them get over the finish line (and there is still more to do as three of them will be on the ballot this coming November). Here are some points worth reviewing and helping to place this in some historic context in our state:
First, this was the largest successful signature gathering effort in American history. I’ve been unable to find anything else even close to this success anywhere in America. They collected 2.7 million signatures with over 100,000 extra signatures for each of the 6 initiatives submitted to the Washington Secretary of State’s office in November and December of last year. All six initiatives were officially certified by the secretary of state and submitted to the legislature in January of this year. There were some examples of three initiatives being successfully submitted by the same organization in Oregon about 15 years ago, but this recent success by the Let’s Go Washington crew stands out. No effort has ever submitted this many initiatives to the legislature in Washington State history.
Secondly, the Washington State legislature this week officially approved more initiatives to the legislature than they ever have in the past 110 years since Washingtonians added the initiative process to the state constitution back in 1912. The three approved initiatives last Monday were all formally opposed by every single Democratic Party affiliated organization in the State of Washington last year – and including their union and Leftist allies – they were all opposed by every organization affiliated with the Leftie side of the political spectrum in Washington. Despite this opposition, they changed their resistance and decided to tactically retreat and many of them voted with the Republicans to pass them into law this last Monday.
Finally, the remaining three initiatives which will be on the ballot in November will be generating the largest and most expensive opposition campaign the Left has funded in many years in an effort to keep taxes high and keep the tax grifting operations these initiatives would shut down as a result of letting the people of Washington State keep more of their income for themselves.
This story is just beginning, but it is worth reflecting on just how historic these events really are.
OUR CONSTITUTION BEGINS WITH THE PHRASE “WE THE PEOPLE.” IT WAS THE FOUNDERS’ INTENT THAT GOVERNMENT BE CREATED BY THE PEOPLE, TO SERVE THE PEOPLE. IT WASN’T THEIR INTENTION FOR THE PEOPLE TO SERVE THE GOVERNMENT. IT WAS ALWAYS INTENDED THAT GOVERNMENT WHICH FAILED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE “ALTERED OR ABOLISHED.” UNTIL WE RETURN TO THE FOUNDER’S INTENT, WE REMAIN WE THE GOVERNED…
Background articles and reference links:
I-2111 – No State Income Tax – official language – passed by legislature
I-2113 – Restore reasonable Police Pursuit – official language – passed by legislature
I-2081 – Parental Notification and Transparency – official language passed by legislature
I-2117 – Stop the Hidden Gas Tax – this will be on the ballot in November
I-2109 – Repeal the Capital Gains Tax – this will be on the ballot in November
I-2124 – Opt-out of the Long-Term Care Tax – this will be on the ballot in November
Washington State Legislature – history of the approval for I-2113
Washington State Legislature – history of the approval for I-2111
Washington State Legislature – history of the approval for I-2081
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Do you mean Okanogan?
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