We the Governed

In Washington State, the King County Democrats and Republicans issued a joint press release today celebrating their agreement with this author on the need...

If you dare to speak truth to power, there will always be repercussions.  The powerful always strike back.  We are witnessing this in Washington...

Jefferson County voters decisively rejected the Proposed Tax increase called Prop1 to create a Homeless Funding program.  All but one precinct voted against this...

The final legal step to achieve zero financial disclosure for the Skykomish Town Council was achieved at thursday’s Public Disclosure Commission Meeting in Olympia. ...

Yesterday, at the King County Council meeting in Seattle (see video at about 52min), on behalf of the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights (CAPR),...

Last Friday morning, in Thurston County Superior Court, a courtroom drama played out which may signal the beginning of some serious legal problems for...

I have written several articles recently about Thurston County’s incompetence and inexcusable behavior in how they seized goats from the Lattin’s Cider Mill Farm...

When Thurston County seized 18 goats from the Lattin’s Cider Mill Farm back in June, the story was ridiculous enough at the time.  It...

When Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson decided to emphasize aggressive enforcement of the state’s campaign finance laws, his intention was to focus on...

  Tim Eyman, the well-known Washington State anti-tax initiative crusader, recently sent one of his regular emails promoting his current effort to pass another $30...

Recent Washington State Attorney General employee Walter Smith believed it was “unfair” that he was forced to sue so many Democratic politicians and Democratic...

On August 24th, Jay Manning, former chief of staff to Governor Gregoire and former Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology settled the...

At Tuesday’s Olympia City Council meeting, in Washington State, the new Thurston County Democratic Party Chair, Gordon “Boudicca” Walsh introduced himself as a “Trans...

This is Part I in a series... Compliance with the law can be challenging sometimes.  For many Democratic Party political committees in Washington State, this...