Friends,

 

The State Legislature reconvened this week to fix a problem that Democrats had failed on during the regular session – the legalization of hard drugs across our state. Democrats’ incompetence on this issue – and others – is truly astonishing. Read on…

Our Newsmaker Interview was with AIM’s Senior Internal Wholesaler, Mike Anderson. With a 30-year career in the insurance business, Anderson discussed the Democrats’ bungled and expensive Long-Term Care payroll tax and plan (WA Cares). The revised start date of the plan is now July 1st. Anderson pointed out the many serious flaws that remain with WA Cares and encouraged the state to have another ‘Exemption Period” where consumers could again purchase private Long-Term Care coverage to avoid the soon-to-be-insolvent state plan. Read more.

 

Marc Dones recently announced plans to resign as CEO of King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA). It’s just the latest sign of the organizational dysfunction that has permeated the two-year-old bureaucratic agency. But can anyone who has followed the saga that is the KCRHA really be surprised? KCRHA’s problems stem from its poor organizational structure, which lacks public accountability and leads to major decisions being made by a small group of local politicians who only spend a few hours a month working on KCRHA issues. Not surprisingly, this Democrat-preferred organizational structure is very similar to the one which governs Sound Transit, another flailing public agency. Read more.

 

Vulnerable State House and Senate Democrats in swing districts are hoping that the headlines coming out of the special session — that they made drugs illegal again — are all they will need to survive their next election. Fortunately for them, the mainstream media is helping them with the positive spin. But a massive problem still exists for those on the Left who now want the drug issue to go away: those on the further Left want to keep bringing it up until they get their way and hard drugs are legalized. Read this story and more. 

Please enjoy a photo of a wheat field in Palouse, Washington, courtesy of former U.S. Rep. Rod Chandler.