10 Apr 2013

WSRP Chairman Wilbur’s Statement on State House Budget Proposal

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I wanted to be sure you folks saw our statement regarding the House Dems’ budget proposal. We’ve also launched a campaign in response to their calls for new taxes, which can be found at www.wsrp.org/no-new-taxes

Bellevue, WA – WSRP Chairman Kirby Wilbur released the following statement regarding the House Democrats’ budget proposal announced today:
“There are no surprises in the proposed budget the Democrats in the state House announced today. $1.3 Billion in new taxes, despite a nearly 7% increase in revenue in the next biennium, imposing a bottled water tax that was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters in 2010, extending ‘temporary’ taxes and exhausting our rainy day fund, all show the Democrats’ addiction to taxes, to other people’s money and their inability to make hard decisions. Continued

10 Apr 2013

CAO Implementation delayed further-Good:)

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cleaning house photo: House cleaning 2013 house-cleaning-daily_zps294d30bf.jpgThe San Juan County Council voted yesterday 5-1 to delay the CAO (Critical Areas Ordinance) implementation until March 2014. Obviously there are major problems with the CAO and how it will affect our county.Why didn’t  Jamie Stevens support this action? Because he and Lovel Pratt have stated that they think the CAO is a good document.Maybe we need to clean house a little more.

Remember to vote. NOW!

10 Apr 2013

Senate leader: ‘Dream Act’ is dead this session

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Published: April 8, 2013 The Associated Press

SEATTLE — State Senate majority leader Rodney Tom says a measure that would have opened need-base college aid to immigrants living without permission in the country is dead.Tom told the Yakima-Herald Republic (http://bit.ly/10MXk8H) on Sunday the measure dubbed the Washington Dream Act will not receive a vote on the floor this session, essentially killing its chances until next year.Tom’s comments are the latest nail on the measure’s coffin. In late March, Senate Higher Education Committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Bailey, R-Oak Harbor, said the bill would not receive a committee vote.
Bill proponents had held out hope a procedural move would be used to bring the measure to a floor vote. Tom says that’s not going to happen.A Democrat, Tom became the majority leader after joining the Republicans in the Senate.
Information from: Yakima Herald-Republic, http://www.yakimaherald.com

9 Apr 2013

Call your Representatives Today!

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Be involved with the legislature. I have been supplying bills here for you to comment about. Today go check out the bills that interest you. Go to the website for Washington State Legislature www.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/ . It is easy to follow a bill. You can first look on websites of interest like The Current or you can just search the bill number or topic on the Leg bills webpage mentioned above.Most of all, call our representatives and let them know San Juan County citizens are informed and watching.

Rep. Kristine Lytton(d) (360) 786-7800
Rep. Jeff Morris(d)360-786-7970
Sen.Kevin Ranker(d)(360) 786-7678

 

8 Apr 2013

Respects to a Great Leader

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Margaret Thatcher

  • n Margaret Thatcher was the United Kingdom’s first woman prime minister. She held the office of PM for 11 years — longer than anyone in the 20th century. As Margaret Roberts she attended Somerville College, Oxford, where she earned a chemistry degree (1947) and was president of the student Conservative Association. In the 1950s she trained as a lawyer and then was elected to Parliament as the member for Finchley in 1959. Her reputation as a rock-ribbed conservative grew over the next two decades, and she was named prime minister on 4 May 1979. Margaret Thatcher shored up a Conservative-led government, favored privatization rather than government expansion, led the country through the Falklands War with Argentina, and did it all with a stern no-nonsense flair that earned her the nickname “The Iron Lady.” Margaret Thatcher served three consecutive terms as prime minister, although political disputes and discontent within her party forced her to resign on 28 November 1990. She was succeeded by fellow Conservative John Major. She published the memoirs The Downing Street Years (1993) and The Path to Power (1995). In later years she suffered from dementia, and she died after a stroke on April 8, 2013.
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