Thanksgiving spirit – bringing Democrats and Republicans together in King County
In Washington State, the King County Democrats and Republicans issued a joint press release today celebrating their agreement with this author on the need for campaign finance reform. This appears to be the first...
The Empire always strikes back – State Democratic Party lashes out after widespread lawbreaking...
If you dare to speak truth to power, there will always be repercussions. The powerful always strike back. We are witnessing this in Washington State as the cascading exposure of widespread violations of the...
Jefferson County Voters Reject Higher Taxes – Prop1 for “Homeless Housing” gets crushed
Jefferson County voters decisively rejected the Proposed Tax increase called Prop1 to create a Homeless Funding program. All but one precinct voted against this proposed tax plan. This was not expected by the political...
Skykomish Town Council retreats from transparency – overturning original petition of voters
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. The Skykomish Town Council and Mayor’s personal financial disclosures (filed...
King County Council receives Bureaucrat Pinocchio Award
Yesterday, at the King County Council meeting in Seattle (see video at about 52min), on behalf of the Citizens Alliance for Property Rights (CAPR), we presented the 2016 Bureaucratic Pinocchio Award to the King...
Can police mislead a judge to sign a search warrant in Thurston County?
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 a few
months ago based on a very questionable “animal cruelty”...
Thurston County’s Great Goat Fiasco – Prosecutor’s office embarrasses itself
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 was called the Great Goat Raid by some of the...
The Scorched Wasteland of Washington’s Campaign Finance Laws
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 outsiders like initiative activist Tim Eyman, deep pockets like the...
Sound Transit – largest violator of Campaign laws in State history? Helping Tim...
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 car tab initiative. Due to this author’s recent focus on...
Jay Manning fined for Cult PAC violations, State Democratic Party pays tab
On August 24th, Jay Manning, former chief of staff to Governor Gregoire and former Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology settled the lawsuit originally filed against him for his many violations of...
