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Grandparents [by Anonymous Citizen on July 3, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
what about Grandparent vs Grandparent has anyone heard or know of a case? If you know please let us know......alabama
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Lane Spliting not what it appears... [by Anonymous Citizen on July 2, 2008]
about 2005 House Bill 1176 (Allowing motorcycles between lanes during congestion)
Lane Spliting apparently isn't as it appears, because it's SPLITTING-TWO T'S.

It may not be what it appears, but apparently illiteracy is....
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How did you get it. [by Anonymous Citizen on July 2, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5167 (Changing restrictions on firearm noise suppressors)
Do you think the King County Sheriff would sign an request for a private citizen to buy a surpressor, as I agree they are a safety tool as guns are loud and damage hearing. What county do you live in.
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uninsured motorist [by Anonymous Citizen on June 26, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5726 (Creating the insurance fair conduct act.)
In the case where a person is rear ended by an under/uninsured motorist, they would be filing a claim with their own insurance company. Also the at-fault party's insurance is under no obligation without a judgment. Many people go through their own ins. company so they only pay their deductable.
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Moving away? [by Anonymous Citizen on June 26, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1011 (Revising provisions relating to alien firearm licenses.)
As a fully legal, permanent resident of this country, and having recently moved to this state I am horrified to find out that I cannot pursue my favorite sport without a piece of paper which is impossible to get (and which I would get if it were possible, despite it being a farce). I have been fingerprinted, background checked, measured, interviewd and checked for diseases to find even the tiniest issue with my character in order to achieve my permanent residency - in short I'm as upstanding a person as you're likely to meet and I'll be applying for citizenship in a few years when I qualify, at which point I shall pursue a place on the US Olympic shooting team. With any sense of legal decency the law will be struck down after today's ruling by the Supreme Court - permanent residents have constitutional rights unless federal law explicitly excludes them from a specific clause.
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Out Of Control [by Anonymous Citizen on June 26, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
The bill on gambling only passed because it was stuck insides the port bill,and if the port bill does not pass some of our top people might go to jail for some of the things they were doing. its like not do what i do its do what i say. Bring the bill back and put it up for vote by its self.
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What can we do? [by Anonymous Citizen on June 25, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1011 (Revising provisions relating to alien firearm licenses.)
What do we have to do or who do we have to contact to change the application procedures for receiving an alien firearms license?
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grandparent rights [by Anonymous Citizen on June 21, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
I believe that grandchildren are often used as the pawns in a concerted effort to wield power and control over grandparents by emotionally immature parents. In most cases, children are being denied the right to visit a grandparent not out of love or concern for the child, but out of vindictiveness by a parent. Grandparents are an important and integral part of the social and emotional fabric of a child's life and if need be, should be protected by law.
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Ridiculous [by Anonymous Citizen on June 20, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
This bill is the most ridiculous thing ever. Most people play poker or gamble online and sometimes its not even real money its just for play and now they wont even lets us gamble with fake money. They let people gamble real money on horse races and in actual casinos but we cant play online. We should have a freedom to play wherever and whenever we want and for our own entertainment not even for real money. This new bill is just insane and dumb...they have nothing else to make illegal anymore that they decided to choose this..how pathetic.
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dog pooh [by Anonymous Citizen on June 19, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2424 (Regarding grocery checkout bags)
The problem is once you reuse the plastoc bag and toss the dog pooh...where do you think it goes? Does it magically disappear once you've tossed it? NO!

Take your dog pooh in a plastic bag multiple that by how many times you dog has to pooh. Now multiply that by everyone in the nation with a dog that poohs and you begin to see the extent of the problem.


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Biodegradable plastic bags [by Anonymous Citizen on June 18, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2424 (Regarding grocery checkout bags)
If we don't use plastic bags, how do we throw away garbage at home? What should we use to line our garbage cans?
Why can't we use those biodegradable plastic bags? I just check online. 500 biodegradable plastic grocery bags cost only $78.65. So that's like $0.16 each. If the supermarkets charges us for plastic bags, those bags better be biodegradable. Otherwise, why would I pay for something that's bad for our environment?
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Best Law Ever [by Anonymous Citizen on June 18, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
There are so many good reasons why this law helps society. If people are going to gamble they will gamble, even in Utah (where casinos and gambling is illegal) people drive a few hours sometimes every weekend to gamble in Wendover Nevada. I have never heard of anyone complaining of the casino being so far away because the majority of people that go don't come back with more money than when they started. The reason why this law is so commendable is because it helps reduce the temptation of gambling more often than usual. There are plenty of benefits to having access to the internet, having a personal casino is not one of them.
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OMG! [by Anonymous Citizen on June 17, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
Glad I'm not married to you bozo..if you solve all your marital disputes by beating your wife.

I make twice the money my husband makes that makes me entitled to spend it any way even some of it foolishly.
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ur wife is stupid [by Anonymous Citizen on June 16, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
its called self control and dicipline idiot.. dont blame online casinos for ur lost blame ur wife for spending money like that teach her how to control herself maybe a beating would do it!
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Cherokee Nation [by Anonymous Citizen on June 14, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5113 (Regarding rainwater collection)
I am native american can this horrible law effect me and my land?
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Wonderfully said! [by Anonymous Citizen on June 14, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5113 (Regarding rainwater collection)
We can not control nature. It can not be governed.
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I absolutely agree [by Anonymous Citizen on June 14, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5113 (Regarding rainwater collection)
What gives the government the right to outlaw the use of rain water on private property? This is a natural law. Natural resources cannot be regulated. Not on personal property. And if it can we are living in a communist nation. What ever happened to freedom?
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Global Warming. [by Anonymous Citizen on June 12, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
Google "31,000 scientists warming"
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If you raised them right... [by Anonymous Citizen on June 12, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
They might not be inclined to keep you from your grandchildren.

It's ultimately their decision to make.
Sometimes freedom has a cost... parental freedom
may cost the grandparents visitations, but that's
life... odds are if the grandparents are being excluded
it is their own fault.
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Once again people over animals [by Anonymous Citizen on June 12, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1756 (Authorizing one additional hound hunting cougar season.)
I cannot believe that this primitive way of hunting has been aproved once again! we must learn to share the land and its rescourses . This is not fair to any of the animals [cougars or the dogs] For a forward thinking society, this is a big step backwards
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How bout THIS carbon footprint? [by pjones on June 12, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
Come on now. In the 1970’s the earth was on the verge of a “Global Ice age” and swarms of ‘knowledgeable’ scientists, some who are still pontificating today on the warming craze, flocked to agree and predict the frozen demise of the earth and all because of mankind and our negative impact on the environment. Just as quick to swarm, were the politicians with their incessant drooling and endeavors to get their hands deeper in our pockets with tax after tax all touted to be able to correct man’s impact on the weather.

Then comes your Global Warming idiocy; and this time, our Carbon Footprint is to blame. Isn’t it interesting how every time, it’s the big brother government who offers the path to salvation, all for a ‘miniscule’ increase in taxes, regulations, and restrictions on the capital market. Lots of money to be made on this, (and the next) ‘taxable’ calamity they can brain wash you and your ilk into believing is caused by whatever. Even more money to be made by scaring the wits out of fools like you so you can dig your hand deeper into your pockets and dole out more tax money to fix another ‘scary’ problem that the almighty government promises to fix by coming to the rescue with taxes. What are they going to buy with that money? Why carbon credits of course! Then they can strike a bargain with ole mother nature, Satan, or whoever else pops up with a promise of salvation from the looming, man-made weather disaster.

The saddest point here, is that the vast hordes of sheep falling onto the bandwagon of Greenhouse gases and carbon footprints don’t even realize just how stooopid they sound. Bend over fool, I’ll give you a carbon footprint right in your “posterior rumpus endus” where you store your brain!

Notice now, how the story changes as science figures out that the world isn’t actually warming. Now, “Global Warming” has morphed into “Climate Change”…The next politically correct buzzword to frighten the witless out of more tax money.

There is just one other problem. Although it's obvious that thousands of scientists from multiple disciplines throughout the world couldn't be wrong, it now seems that they are. This is not the rant of some oil industry paid-for study, but the admission by none other than Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, which represents over 2,500 environmental and climatological scientists.

It seems that, sadly, facts are stubborn little things that won't go away, and scientific measurement is far more accurate than man-made computer projections and theories.

The problem began with a long awaited set of studies of precise global ocean temperatures made by over 3000 buoys, combined with atmospheric measurements from no less than 8 orbiting NASA satellites. Our expectation was that this would really end the debate. The discussion would simply debate "just how bad is it?". It didn't turn out that way.

All of the instrumentation said the opposite. Global warming had inexplicably stopped, and the earth has been cooling slightly since the late 1990's and will continue to do so for at least the next 10 to 15 years. Impossible, you say? Well it seems that global warming researchers, while taken aback at the data, are still scientists. And scientists, while sometimes led astray, tend to stick with science, not political correctness or popular opinion.

That's the reason why the conclusions were not found by NASA or the Bush administration, by Exxon or by anti-global-warming forces, but by climate scientists themselves. A team led by none other than uber climate researcher Noel Keenlyside, supported by the UN's climate data analysis systems came to that conclusion. Faced with overwhelming evidence, Rajendra Pachauri admitted to Reuters earlier this year that there had been no global warming at any time in this century.

So does that mean that global warming was just a fantasy? Of course is isn't. That there's no need to reduce our carbon footprint? Absolutely not. But with American families reeling from 4 dollar gasoline that will just go higher, and a carbon footprint that punishes the most advanced nations while rewarding the worst polluters, it's time to take a common sense pause from this fanatical "they sky is burning" panic. It's time to plan a strategy that will work, not punish.

Let's begin with an idea I have to credit to columnist Charles Krauthammer who suggested that we adjust our gas tax to keep fuel at 4 dollars per gallon. That number seems to be the magic level that is effectively pushing Americans into smaller, more fuel efficient cars and reducing overall motor vehicle use. Voluntarily. Without government mandates. If we impose a similar tax on coal and natural gas, we'll find that home and office energy efficiency will be at the top of everyone's list. That tax money can then be mandated for use in alternative energy research and development.

Let's demand that the developing nations, including China and India place carbon emission reduction at the top of their national agendas as well. That alone will contribute substantially to a reduction in greenhouse emissions. And let's put some teeth behind that. While a tax on polluting Chinese goods may have other repercussions, we shouldn't allow other nations to blatantly despoil the atmosphere while we continue to fund their filthy manufacturing plants and punish our own families in the process.

Finally, let's get serious about alternative energy. Global warming isn't the problem. Oil and coal are. If we recognize that, and spend the money we're now wasting on politically correct half-hearted fixes, we'll have solutions that work. Not mindless ethanol, but real alternative energy that will stop the flow of oil and coal and in turn will take care of carbon emissions without artificial legislative mandates and partisan politics.

We've been given a break. Those who choose to accept science will see the window of opportunity to do this right for a change. Those who bury their head in the (warming) sand will live to see a nation still arguing over global warming, and suffering from ongoing draconian curbs 20 years from now.

Seize the opportunity created by this global cool off. It may not last, but it has given us the chance to change our world in an effective, intelligent way. Let's not blow it this time.


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Who cares? [by Anonymous Citizen on June 10, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5475 (Banning assault weapons)
So what if the creators of the Constitution didn't envision automatic weapons? They had duels where one could openly kill another if both accepted to a duel. Of course no one would duel now a days with guns as powerful as they are, but even still the fact that we're done with dueling shows how much more civilized we've grown (well, most of us.)
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Who cares? [by Anonymous Citizen on June 10, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5475 (Banning assault weapons)
So what if the creators of the Constitution didn't envision automatic weapons? They had duels where one could openly kill another if both accepted to a duel. Of course no one would duel now a days with guns as powerful as they are, but even still the fact that we're done with dueling shows how much more civilized we've grown (well, most of us.)
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I disagree [by Anonymous Citizen on June 10, 2008]
about 2005 Senate Bill 5475 (Banning assault weapons)
It would be wonderful if we could ask other countries to not attack us, and never worry again, but that's not how things work in real life. We can't just ask people to stop using drugs so we made them illegal, and now we have drug dealers. If we start banning guns, the only people who will have them are our police, military, and anyone smart enough and wreckless enough to do some damage. Removing citizens of their right to bear arms is an almost communistic view of ruling.
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Weather Changes [by Anonymous Citizen on June 9, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
Today is a record setting coldest day in Seattle for June two weeks before the offical start of summer. Also today, the east coast is experiencing triple diget degree weather very early in the season.

Global warming effects the entire globe but not always in the same way. This isn't the sky is falling. This isn't crying wolf. It's opening your eyes and seeing what is happening to the world we call home.
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Thank You Olympia [by Anonymous Citizen on June 9, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
Please site your sources. I've never seen any documentation validating the claim that 99% of climate scientists believe in global warming and that it is mainly due to mankind.
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What is the status? [by Anonymous Citizen on June 8, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1011 (Revising provisions relating to alien firearm licenses.)
Does anybody know that status of this bill? Did it fail or pass?

When is it expected to get voted on?
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Moonbat [by Anonymous Citizen on June 5, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2420 (Establishing a carbon tax.)
Will you please explain how more taxes will improve the environment, does the ozone layer accept cash. All this new tax will do is fund more moronic research projects. While the rising cost of petroleum products is already crippling the country, the last thing we need to do allow our government to do is tax it further. Everyone, please go to grassfire.org & sign the petition & send faxes to congress to let our leaders know how you feel about this issue
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Some more info [by Anonymous Citizen on May 28, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1011 (Revising provisions relating to alien firearm licenses.)
I have found that many Washingtonians are not clear about 'aliens' and we need to define terms.
A green card holder like myself cannot apply for citizenship until a certain amount of time has passed, so legal aliens are not 'avoiding' becoming citizens.
Some 'aliens' are here legally but are not legal residents - for example, if Tony Blair came here on holiday he could not accept an invitation to go clay pigeons shooting with his hosts
Green card holders have already had interviews by the U.S. government offices /Embassies and have had physical examinations by government approved doctors and mental assessments and FBI investigations into them and their family. They have been measured and weighed and photographed and fingerprinted and had blood samples taken.
Why cannot the Washington Licensing authorities accept people who have had this level of scrutiny already ? If they would, then it would not solve the whole problem but it would be a good start.

Every legal 'alien'in Washington is very much against illegal immigration but many Washingtonians immediately think of illegals when they think of 'aliens'. I pay Federal tax on my world wide income just like a citizen and spend all my income into the Washington economy

The history of Washington State with it's treatment of Asians many years ago where they were not allowed to buy property or even rent is a thing of the past and all countries have regretable episodes in their pasts, including my own. Those episodes make it more important that issues regarding LEGAL 'aliens' should be treated in a modern and more enlightened fashion and Washington has an opportunity to do that at zero cost, allowing freedom only to responsible, validated, legal aliens.

Come on Washington; shows like 'Frazier' promoted Seattle as modern and sophisticated, so let's get the laws up to date so that image of the State is promoted and not undermined by these hang-overs from the past

So long as the changes benefit Washingtonians and keep them safe then there is no reason to hang back. The extra revenue will pay for the Police to crack down more on illegals and criminals.



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Lane Spliting not what it appears [by Anonymous Citizen on May 27, 2008]
about 2005 House Bill 1176 (Allowing motorcycles between lanes during congestion)
I drive every day in that congested traffic, and in the traffic that flows into the congestion on California highways. Let me first state that lane changing at 25 mph is a joke. Motorcyclists lane split at much higher speeds, and that includes law enforcement officers. I live in fear that I will hit someone in my blind side one day. And, by the way, in the past month I have seen at least four accidents on the road I travel where that very thing happened. Stop this dangerous practice if you can. I wish that California was a bit more concerned about the safety of motorcyclists. I for one would be more than willing to let them take up an extra space in the flow than to worry about killing one of them.
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Lawyers and attorneys - [by Anonymous Citizen on May 17, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2771 (creating an administrative sobriety check point)
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challenge it [by Anonymous Citizen on May 14, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
show up at the kent courthouse on thursday,,may 15th..10:30 am..law on trial and im gonna be there wearing red and carrying a sign with a lot of other people..everyone who dont like the state nanny,,,be there...pro poker players will be there to talk..look up PPA (poker players alliance) on net and see what you can do..This is a real good example of a law bought and paid for by casinos with no real good logic for its existance..it costs me 10 in gas and at least 40 to play at a casino...I can play for a couple of bucks and no gas online..wheres the logic..

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hogman [by Anonymous Citizen on May 11, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2424 (Regarding grocery checkout bags)
I see and hear all sorts of figures thrown around.Does anyone know the volume of 1 million plastic plastic grocery bags and the amount of oil required to produce this many ?
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Are you people that ignorant [by Anonymous Citizen on May 11, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2422 (Prohibiting the sale of petroleum-based water bottles)
The bill does not cover water bottles as in bottles that hold water. Its "bottles" that contain any liquid. When someone uses the term water bottle its being used as a generic term. Just like "Band-aid" is a brand name but everyone uses it in a generic context to describe what they want. Same as "Kleenx".
By cutting back on the use of plastic bottles we cut back on the amount going to a landfill and the amount of petroleum used to produce the bottles resulting in a cleaner enviroment and lower crude oil prices.
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wrong idiot [by Anonymous Citizen on May 9, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2911 (removing public records exemptions regarding collective bargaining)
if someone from high wants to hunt you down and kill you, you need to hide your records...not "only if your hiding something"...
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grandparent visitation [by Anonymous Citizen on May 9, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
Why? Because there is no such thing as grandparent visitation rights. A right is something you're entitled to. Therefore, there can't be grandparents visitation rights. You have no rights, can't you get that through your head? It's up to the parents in WA State. Not the courts. The US Supreme Court, WA Supreme Court, and Court of Appeals made that clear. Anybody who would go against parents deserves to be shunned, and cut out of the childrens lives.
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My grandson [by Anonymous Citizen on May 8, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
My son was killed. My 6 year old grandson and his mother lived with us for the first year and a half,following his death. We supported them and loved them. She rconciled with her parents and moved to Washington, while we were gone and without so much as a thank you. (She left because of the money she owed us). I have pleaded with her to let us talk to our grandson, by email. She refuses, she will not give the cards we send, and I am worried about him and what affect this has had on him, since he was never able to say good bye. Her parents are both alcholics and smoke pot. All I want is to be able to communicate with him as he grows up and tell him about his daddy. Is that so wrong? Why can't the courts allow reasonable contact between grandchild and grandparents when the death of a parent occurs and the living parent just wants the child to forget us?
There needs to be a law to protect the welfare of the child and grandchildren deserve to know their grandparents love them, even if it only comes through the phone and mail system.
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the other grandparent [by Anonymous Citizen on May 8, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
I am the other grandparent. The mother's mother has put my son and his family through abuse charges that were proved to be false. She did not return the children when she had visitation always filing charges. We went to comtempt of court to get the children back. He was given sole custody in the custody battle. Now we go to court as she has petitioned to see the grandchildren. My son now fights for his right to protect his children who are now afraid they will not be coming home to him. I feel both sides should be evaluated. I feel that the courts should be a little more receptive to the fathers plea of sanctuary for his children. It is a sad day when we need to fight for our rights as parents to protect our children even from grandparents!
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Pathetic [by Anonymous Citizen on May 5, 2008]
about 2006 Senate Bill 6613 (Banning internet gambling)
Even banks won't let you decide where you're going to spend your money with your debit card (i.e. an ATM at a casino).

The government and the banks need to get out of our spending habits and our bedrooms. It's none of their business.

I'd be more than happy to pay the tax on my gambling earnings from online casinos. That is, if I was allowed to play.......
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[by Anonymous Citizen on May 1, 2008]
about 2003 Senate Bill 5559
radiation Yost antisemitism reincarnation ingot network!terminators oppresses
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Frustrated [by Anonymous Citizen on April 28, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
I am so glad that other people are able to express what I'm feeling. My mother abused me and my sibling and now a judge gave my daughter to her. i don't believe in hitting my kids because of what she did to me and I have raised good kids. But now my daughter is being brain washed into believing lies about me and other members of her family. I am happy to see that others feel the same way about grandparents already had there chance and now its ours!
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Frustrated and Lost [by Anonymous Citizen on April 28, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
I am a single mother of two great kids and I am fighting this battle now. My so called mother potitioned the court for grandparents rights. She won that case and now she has potitioned the court for custody. The Judge due to his byass against single mothers gave temp custody to her. He did not listen to the facts, such as she has a record of child abuse, and drug addiction. I have been raising my kids alone for along time. I don't abuse or neglect them. I don't do drugs and I work. I don't use the system to support my kids but I have been made out to be a bad mother because I am single and don't own a home. This Judge has taken my daughter and given the grandmother all rights. I have seen my daughter two times in three months and there is nothing I can do about it. My daugter wants to live there because the grandparents don't say no and buy her everything. The next court date keeps getting moved and I'm running out of money for the attorney bills. The court system is only for the people with money and because I work I can't get legal aid. I dont know where to turn for help financially and emotionally. I live in Ohio where gradually parents are loosing all there rights and noone will help.
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Grandparent Visitation in WA [by Anonymous Citizen on April 26, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
You make me sick. Why do you think you have rights to someone elses children? Stay out of their life. If you have a lawsuit on your mind, you should be banished from their lives forever. You don't even know how hard a lawsuit would be on them. GET LOST. You are only thinking about yourselves. SCREW YOU
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Grandparent Visitation [by Anonymous Citizen on April 26, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
Please don't be a narcissist. STAY OUT OF YOUR CHILDRENS LIVES, YOU DON'T DESERVE TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO> YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE TO RAISE THEM. NOW IT"S THIER TURN. TRY TO WORK ON YOUR RELATIONSHIP, INSTEAD OF THINKING ABOUT SUING. YOU ARE SICK AND MANIPULATIVE. STAY OUT OF THEIR LIVES. ARE YOU SICK?
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Grandparent Visitation [by Anonymous Citizen on April 26, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
There is no such thing as grandparent visitation rights in Washington State. Both the US Supremce Court and WA State Supreme Court, along with the WA Court Of Appeals concluded that grandparent visitation is an Unconstitutional Infringement on parental rights, both Facially, and As Applied. Those legislators who try to introduce new bills are working against the parents of this state, and should be thrown out of office, people like Rep Ruth Kagi, who works for special interests like the organization called GROW, and the AARP.
There is no law in WA State, just like Florida, the only two states without this Unconstitutional Law. Make sure to keep it that way.....
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Grandparents aren't all bad. [by Anonymous Citizen on April 21, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5071 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
The other side of your arguement would be less than perfect parents. They do exist.
In our case a fued between our son and daughter kept us from being allowed to see grandchild. This doesn't make us unfit lunatics.
Both parents of the child refuse to work. This doesn't make us terrible grandparents.
Both parents party non-stop and have house guests 24/7. Why or how does this make us bad grandparents.
We often have to purchase formula and diapers for grandson. Are we bad yet?
Do you believe if no contact is granted that later in life the grandchild won't want to see or meet their grandparents? More traumatic later in life for the child to meet family members than having it would be to have constant contact and support throughout their young lives.
Get my point?
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condo internal insurance [by Anonymous Citizen on April 20, 2008]
about 2003 Senate Bill 5559
Moiseyev.prophecy propelling:forfeiture headache spreadsheet:indeterminate:outcries
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Ditto [by Anonymous Citizen on April 15, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1108 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
I really sympathize with you on this one.
Saying you are held hostage buy the kids you raised is putting the hurt mildly.
We too, have been blamed for every bad decision our son has made and every thing we did not give into during the time we raised him. He has grown tall and straight even so. He found his wife's parents to be more to his liking (they spoil him sinfully and because they have no male children, they have treated him like their own). For that we are greatful however, now that he has a psuedo set of parents, unfortunately, we are expendable. When our Granddaughter was born, from that point forward she was used as a tool in leveraging his wants against us. When we did not give in and buy him whaever he thought he needed at the time, we were outcast and not included in the family, we went for three years without even being allowed to send her a birthday or Christmas gift...all were returned spitefully.
Then suddenly, he was faced with a possible divorce and financial dire-straits and reached out to us. We, of course, let our love over-rule our hurt feelings and took him/them back open arms, paid most of the oppressive bills they had and helped in other ways to set them back on the path to success. Then, after they had worked out their issues both marital and financial, the leveraging started anew. We couldn't afford to buy them a new washer and dryer set to replace the ones that broke, so the parents in law rode in to the rescue and now, we are back to square one. We have not seen them nor have we been allowed to even send a card. We have been again spurned. Talk about crushing hurt.
From what we have been told from our granddaughter herself, in a chance meeting at a public childrens play center where we had taken our other two grandchildren, we were told that she (our granddaughter-now 4) would see us when she was 16 and would not be allowed to see us before then. Then, without even a sideways glance at us, our son scolded her for talking to us and hustled her away.
We have longed for some way to press for grandparental visitation rights but then again, should the courts finally allow it again, I doubt we would press for it anymore.
As grandparents, we feel it is far more important for our granddaughter to have a strong family relationship with her parents rather than have to be dragged like a tug of war rope between two factions at odds with each other.
What we are doing now is banking on the fact that someday, as usually happens with adopted kids and those separated from one or the other parent by divorce, that someday she will seek us out. We have therefore been accumulating and storing all the cards, small gifts, and other treasures and things grandparents save for their granchildren, in a storage box for her. We will be at her graduation and any other public event where our son and wife cannot restrict us from being. Any sports event she choses to partake in etc, she will know we were there cheering her on. When that time comes and she seeks us out and is ready to know and absorb facts in a better mindset than as a small child, she will know that it was not by our choice that we didn't see her and that even though not allowed, our love for her was/is no less.
Sorry for being so long winded but we thought you might take solice in that you are not alone and perhaps can take action in a like way, to salvage the love of your grandchildren when they finally throw off the shackles of oppression inflicted by immature and self-centered parents.
Take care and may God grant you strength and peace.
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...... [by Anonymous Citizen on April 15, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2422 (Prohibiting the sale of petroleum-based water bottles)
Hey keyword is pertoleum based bottles which take hundreds of years to degrade. There are alternatives to petrol based bottled plastics that are biodegradable just little more expensive. I suggest before anyone makes another ignorant comment that they research the issue. Alright? Thanks
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Wanting Money [by Anonymous Citizen on April 15, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1108 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
I have had my grandson in my home every week for 2 years, 2 to 3 days a week and never a problem. Now we have said no to lending money.

He is no longer allowed to talk with us, we can no longer see him, and to go to their house to see him we must call first...but the kids won't answer the phone.

If we found the money to lend them, then the problem would be solved.

Not all grandparents are bad some are being held hostage by the children they raised.




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The sell out [by Anonymous Citizen on April 9, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2476 (Authorizing tribal police officers to act as general authority Washington state peace officers)
As I read this, the intent was to let the tribal police have the jurisdiction over non-tribal members on the reservations. That is fine. Although if a tribal member commits a crime off the reservation he is not held accountable to our laws and only has to deal with the tribal kangaroo court. They don't hold their own people accountable, talk about a safe haven. Everyone needs to be held to the same standards and laws. On another note, as the reservations are considered sovereign countries what's next, Canada patrolling or state? Our Governor and Legislators have sold us out.
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Washington State Legislature known as SB 5544 [by Anonymous Citizen on April 9, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5544 (Abating environmental noise.)
If laws are on the books already, why do these people that we vote into office, pay well and most likely have never even been on an ORV need to waste their time and effort re-writing laws? This happens over and over in so many areas of state government that I wonder if there is no "real" work to be done.
Have any of these "sponsors" been to any of the meetings or events and seen the fun and families together. Also Mr. Kline, ORV riding is VERY physical and not for the OBESE. If you think motor sports are not "SPORTS" you better think again. Lets think about all the INTERNATIONALLY recognized motor sports events, Baja 1000, Paris to Dakar etc.
Could you finish one of these races? I think not.

Enforce the laws on the books. Don't recreate a smooth rolling wheel.

You may think the outdoors is for quiet, solitude and self reflection, not everyone goes outdoors for those things every time. There are more quiet peaceful outdoor areas than ORV areas.

Keep your hands off things you do not understand, care for or even do!

Thanks

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What can God never see? [by Anonymous Citizen on April 8, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2771 (creating an administrative sobriety check point)
Hi!
Without taking into account the issue of establishing a stone by God, which he won't be able to pick up, how do you think, may be something in this world, what can God never see?
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maybe we can look further [by Anonymous Citizen on April 6, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2974 (Including the study of the Pledge of Allegiance in high school graduation requirements)
I agree that it might be a good idea for high school students to discuss the meaning (and origins, etc.) of the pledge, but I find it quite disturbing to have 6 year olds mindlessly citing "allegiance" to a "republic" when they don't learn even the basics of those words until at least about the fifth grade. It is very pre-war Germany (even down to the outstretched arm hail salute that had to be changed.)
wikipedia: Pledge of Allegiance, and Bellamy Salute, etc

Though, deciding how people must show their patriotism isn't one of the duties we gave to the federal government in the Constitution so maybe they need to spend a little more time on that as well.
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second class human [by allserene on April 6, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1011 (Revising provisions relating to alien firearm licenses.)
I am moving to Washington in 3 weeks as I am retired and my U.S. Citizen wife has a new job there. I was the Secretary of a target rifle club in the U.K. for 14 years. Seems these old Jim Crow laws still exist and will bar me from target shooting so I can just sit at home and watch Oprah.
I would not be in favor of the thousands of Americans U.K. being denied equal rights or African countries barring Americans from hunting there.

My wife is most dismayed as she has the choice of making her husband into 'untermensch' something less than other men, or giving up a great job in Washington State. We had researched Washington and decided it was progressive and enlightened - were we wrong ? Tony Blair could not shoot clay pigeons in Washington but O.J. could buy a pistol ?

This is one millionth of the harm that was done to black people by these Jim Crow laws but it gives me a tiny insight into what went on and is still going on
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about 2007 Senate Bill 5726 (Creating the insurance fair conduct act.)
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TO HANG IN THERE EASTSIDER [by Anonymous Citizen on April 5, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
The fuel prices in the 70's were .55 a gal. not 3.50 a gal. so where in the hell are you comming from ? And the idea of not buying from a certain oil co. for a whole week sure as hell WILL drop the prices. Do your math for christ sakes. And if it were'nt for that bitch we have as a governor we would at least be paying .15 a gal. less. So I really don't give a damned if you are a farmer of where the hell you live, you sure think like a west sidder.
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Interior Design Legislation Exposed in Wall Street Journal [by Anonymous Citizen on April 3, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 3223 (Addressing the practice of interior design)
Licensing Battle within the Interior Design Industry Heats Up!

(April 1st, 2008) Wall Street Journal Op-Ed article by Clark Neily of The Institute For Justice exposes ASID lobbying effort to pass Interior Design Legislation:

Read the Article:

Read the Article:

Watch Out for That Pillow

By CLARK NEILY

April 1, 2008; Page A17

Imagine you were a state legislator and some folks asked you to pass a law making it a crime to give advice about paint colors and throw pillows without a license. And imagine they told you that the only people qualified to place large pieces of furniture in a room are those who have gotten a college degree in interior design, completed a two-year apprenticeship, and passed a national licensing exam. And by the way, it is criminally misleading for people who practice interior design to use that term without government permission.

You might stare at them incredulously for a moment, then look down at your calendar and say, "Oh, I get it -- April Fool!" Right? Wrong.

These folks represent the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), an industry group whose members have waged a 30-year, multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to legislate their competitors out of business. And those absurd restrictions on advice about paint selection, throw pillows and furniture placement represent the actual fruits of lobbying in places like Alabama, Nevada and Illinois, where ASID and its local affiliates have peddled their snake-oil mantra that "Every decision an interior designer makes affects life safety and quality of life."

Legislative analysis by a half-dozen states that rebuffed ASID's attempts to cartelize interior design -- including Colorado, Washington and South Carolina -- has failed to support ASID's claim that the location of your couch or the color of your bedroom walls is literally a matter of life and death. As the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies put it, there is "no evidence of physical or financial harm being caused to . . . consumers by the unregulated practice of interior designers."

Lacking any factual support for its sweeping public welfare claims, ASID and its supporters often resort to fear-mongering. For example, licensing proponents frequently say the tragic fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas that killed 87 people in 1980 was the result of inappropriate fixtures and furnishings.

The fire was actually caused by an electrical fault and allowed to spread by a grossly inadequate sprinkler system. Investigators later identified 83 different building code violations. Another favorite is the 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island, in which 100 people perished. Again, that tragedy had nothing to with substandard interior design services. It was caused by an illegal indoor fireworks display and the absence of a code-mandated sprinkler system.
If there were any credible evidence that unregulated interior design presents a genuine risk to consumers, ASID would certainly have found it by now. They have had plenty of time (more than three decades), resources (dues for ASID's 40,000 members average several hundred dollars per year), and incentive. Furthermore, despite ASID's best efforts, only three states regulate the practice of interior design. That leaves 47 (including California and New York) where the ravages of unlicensed interior design could be easily documented -- if there were any.
So what is really behind ASID's relentless push for more regulation? Simple: naked economic protectionism.

It is no accident that the credentials required for licensure in ASID-backed occupational licensing bills are the same credentials required for membership in ASID itself. This includes a four-year degree from an accredited interior design college, a two-year apprenticeship, and a two-day, thousand-dollar licensing exam so irrelevant to the actual practice of interior design that many ASID members have never bothered to pass it themselves and simply get a waiver instead.
In vetoing interior design legislation last May, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels explained that the "principal effect" of the law would have been "to restrain competition and limit new entrants into the occupation." Mr. Daniels noted that interior designers were "hardly the only profession" seeking government protection from potential competitors.

The numbers certainly bear him out. Fifty years ago, only 5% of the American workforce was licensed; today it is nearly 30%. We're not talking about brain surgeons or airline pilots, either. Louisiana requires florists to be licensed (yes, florists), and in several states -- including Louisiana, Oklahoma and Virginia -- only licensed funeral directors may sell caskets, a state-sanctioned monopoly they use to jack up prices anywhere from 400% to 600%, a fact established in litigation by the Institute for Justice in Tennessee and Oklahoma.
Until it was struck down by the state supreme court last year, Alabama's interior design law made it a crime to offer advice about throw pillows and paint colors without a license. To anyone who thinks that law -- or others like it currently being pushed by interest groups like ASID in state capitols around the nation -- was motivated by a genuine concern for public health and welfare, I can only say this: It's going to be a rough day.

Mr. Neily is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice.
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I'm Skeptical about Climate Change Skeptics [by Anonymous Citizen on April 3, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
You have to be some sort of complete failure at science to still refute manmade climate change today. I'm guessing these are the people who never paid attention in 4th grade science class to the basic fact that the 27 billion tons of CO2 put into the air each year traps heat. 95% of climatologists agree with it, and unless you're a climatologist, stop arguing against it with inane conspiracy theories.

We need to act soon on greenhouse emissions, while it's economically feasible, because trying to deal with the impacts on unabated climate change 50 years from now will be huge otherwise. And as for those who would cry wolf about the economic costs, consider this: a lot of our fossil fuel usage hinders the economy; fuel efficiency, ethanol, and road tolling can boost the economy. On the other hand, dealing with the impacts 50 years from now, if we don't do anything, could cost around 30% of GDP. This is from an MIT study. So don't refute this stuff unless you know what you're talking about.
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What to do? [by Anonymous Citizen on April 2, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 3223 (Addressing the practice of interior design)
A lot of griping going on here concernig all these laws, whether they passed or not.So "Just remember in November" to vote for THE only choice, Ron Paul. LESS GOVERNMENT, keeping our freedoms, and back to the Constitution. DON'T take down your signs, he is still in the running! GO RON PAUL !!
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I am Cofused [by Anonymous Citizen on April 2, 2008]
about 2006 House Bill 2805 (Missing persons)
Mr. Bober, am I to understand that you just happened to see a flier one day and decide to dedicate your life to solving a crime, you knew nothing about? Quite frankly sir, IF Misty Copsey is indeed deceased. You sir seem to know an awful lot. Did you not think it would look suspisious that you just happened to Know where exactly where Misty's clothes could be found? If I were to speculate as you have done for so many years now, I might say that you know too much. To me it looks like You see a flier, and you realise that this could be your chance to get your name in the news. Or... better yet what is the best way to have the police show you thier hand? By inserting yourself into thier investigation. You Knew where the clothes would be found, you now say you know exactly where the body is, and you have even gone so far as to state you know her head was removed?? Get real! If these Pierce people were to let you survey thier driveway, and discover a body there sans it's head , I'd be scared Mr. Bober because If I were the police I'd be headed straight for YOUR front door. If everything you say you Know is true I'd have to ask how do you know so damn much. It appears to me that you are involved more than you say, you don't want people to forget Misty, you want it known what was done possibly by you, and you keep giving us more and more information about the why, where, and how your gonna screw up dude and when you do hope they give you all the credit you seek and deserve. And for your information I do know what it's like to loose a child to a child rapist and Murderer. I lost mine in 1988 also in Pierce County. But I tell you this if a stranger called me out of the blue with the information you had, as a mother my focus would have been on you
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I am Cofused [by Anonymous Citizen on April 2, 2008]
about 2006 House Bill 2805 (Missing persons)
Mr. Bober, am I to understand that you just happened to see a flier one day and decide to dedicate your life to solving a crime, you knew nothing about? Quite frankly sir, IF Misty Copsey is indeed deceased. You sir seem to know an awful lot. Did you not think it would look suspisious that you just happened to Know where exactly where Misty's clothes could be found? If I were to speculate as you have done for so many years now, I might say that you know too much. To me it looks like You see a flier, and you realise that this could be your chance to get your name in the news. Or... better yet what is the best way to have the police show you thier hand? By inserting yourself into thier investigation. You Knew where the clothes would be found, you now say you know exactly where the body is, and you have even gone so far as to state you know her head was removed?? Get real! If these Pierce people were to let you survey thier driveway, and discover a body there sans it's head , I'd be scared Mr. Bober because If I were the police I'd be headed straight for YOUR front door. If everything you say you Know is true I'd have to ask how do you know so damn much. It appears to me that you are involved more than you say, you don't want people to forget Misty, you want it known what was done possibly by you, and you keep giving us more and more information about the why, where, and how your gonna screw up dude and when you do hope they give you all the credit you seek and deserve. And for your information I do know what it's like to loose a child to a child rapist and Murderer. I lost mine in 1988 also in Pierce County. But I tell you this if a stranger called me out of the blue with the information you had, as a mother my focus would have been on you
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Hang in there east sider! [by Anonymous Citizen on March 29, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
Don't take the attacks personal. I tried to inject a little sense into this discussion a while back .

and got accused of living on the west side and being a democrat. Seems like unless you curse the governor you are labeled a west side demo.

Its obvious people don't think things thru much when ideas for lowering gas prices like boycotting a certain station or not buying on Thursdays or filling up when your tank is half full instead of empty are offered as serious strategies to "hurt" the oil companies.

I farm and I don't like the high gas and diesel prices either. Fertilizer has gone from $350 a ton to 650. Calling the governor names isn't going to fix that. Electing a different governor isn't going to fix that. Oil prices have been going up since the 70's, and none of the politicians since then have been able to control the oil prices.

A little less emotion and a little more constructive thought would benefit this sight a lot.

I anxiously await to hear your praise and accolades! Mike
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AGREE [by Anonymous Citizen on March 28, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2895 (Establishing a license program for the practice of interior design)
Yes, I agree with the opposition and with the way the bill was worded and the strict requirments, it does shut the doors for new designers. BUT I also support the Registering or Lic of Interior Designers. What makes them special and exempt from same Lic. requirements we Contractors go through.
It's very simple, 4-Years experience, State test, Lic, Bond...and move on.
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To . I think your family tree has too few a branches [by Anonymous Citizen on March 28, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
And you call us REDNECKS STUPID. Just where in the Hell did you learn to spell, you dumb f-cking bastard. And how dare you call us cousin screwing. I sure would like to see you say that to my face, because I would love to teach you some good old fassion DIXIE manners.
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reply to eastsider [by Anonymous Citizen on March 28, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
I can see right now that you are the enemy. You have to be one of those west side tree hugging, liberal yuppie democraps. That's right , I said DEMOPCRAPS. For you liberal's information, there is no global warming, it's all a bunch of proven crap. In the last 1000 years the global temp. has risen 1/2 of 1 degree, and this last year the earth has cooled 3/4 of 1 degree. So what does that do their global warming excuse? It blows it and their credability all to hell. Put the blame for this shit where it belongs, squarly on our tax and spend Democraps, and their Yuppie thinking. ( NO COMMON SENSE AT ALL ), and no reguard for anyone except themselves and what personal gain they will get out of it. So, to sum it up, you can take you're liberal way of thinking and shove right up your ass. WE HAVE HAD IT WITH ALL OF YOU !! and this comming state election will prove that. NO MORE DEMOCRAPS.
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To : eastsider [by Anonymous Citizen on March 28, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
What the hell rock did you just crawl out from under ? WE DID NOT VOTE THAT GAS TAX IN. We voted it down, by a large margin. That B-TCH in Olympia just over rode our vote and inacted the damned tax anyway. Not only did she put that tax in illegally, but she also raised it from the proposed nine cents over three years to 15 cents over three years. She got that tax in just like she got in office, by a whole lot of crooked moves. That B-tch ain't my Governor, and come election time she's going to join the crowd at the unemployment line. JUST WHERE SHE BELONGS.
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SB 5256 formerly HB 1102 [by Anonymous Citizen on March 27, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5256 (Providing for the exclusion of veterans benefits from the income calculation for the retired person property tax relief program.)
Why hasn't the Governer signed this legislation. Her husband is a Vietnam Vet.At every Photo op at election time, she will claim her concern for veterans. This legislation wil exempt VA copmpensation not to be counted as income.It will assist those 100% DAV severely wounded veterans; with combat disabilities, to fend off the ever growing tax burden to the property they own. Instead, the Governer signed SB 2488 to entittle dommestic parteners to quilify for the senoir tax exemption.
Lets see.... Where are the priorities? I can serveve my country and incurr severe lifetime disabilites(gunshot wounds) and the Governer cannot sign that legislation for a DAV exemption. However, the Governer can take time to sign a SB 2488 concerning legislation for domestic parters to to share in the same type of senoir property tax exemption. HuH.

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Love in the land of hate [by Anonymous Citizen on March 27, 2008]
about 2006 House Bill 2661 (Discrimination based on sexual orientation)
All I can say to those who hate is I forgive you. Some of these people want to preserve their right to discriminate.
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A truely useless law [by Anonymous Citizen on March 26, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1031 (Changing provisions concerning electronic devices.)
Read the signed bill and you'll find a law that means absolutely nothing. As long as you don’t use the information “for the purpose of fraud, identity theft, or for any illegal purpose”, it doesn’t limit anyone from looking at your data (government or private).
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California Interior Design Legislation [by Anonymous Citizen on March 25, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2895 (Establishing a license program for the practice of interior design)
They lost in Washington State but the Interior Design Cartel of ASID/IIDA/NCIDQ is trying to pass an Interior Design Practic Act in CALIFORNIA.

If this passes, it will be used to justify legislation in Washington State next year.

If you have design industry friends in California the time is now to let them know about this DANGEROUS LEGISLATION.

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California Interior Design Legislation & Licensing-IDCC Launches Push for Restrictive Interior Design Practice Act in Califronia

We've just heard that the Interior Design Cartel ASID/IIDA/NCIDQ & the College Interior Design Schools are launching a campaign to pass a restrictive Interior Design Practice Act & Licensing bill in California. This bill will remove the voluntary system currenty in effect in California.

In California the "front group" for the Interior Design Cartel is called IDCC:
www-idc-ca-org

The Califronia Bill Number is Senate Bill 1312 (SB 1312).

Here's a statement from the IDCC website:

"The Interior Design Coalition of California Presents Practice Act Legislation"

The Interior Design Coalition of California (IDCC) announces that after three years of research and meetings throughout California that they are sponsoring Senate Bill 1312 which will be introduced in April. Senator Leland Lee, PhD, is the author, and the Coalition has been able to secure many co-authors to support this action."


Please contact your California State Legislator and California State Senator to voice your OPPOSITION to new Interior Design Legislation in California and the restrictive Interior Design Practice Act SB 1312 that is being pushed by the Interior Design Cartel and IDCC.


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California Interior Design Legislation [by Anonymous Citizen on March 25, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6707 (Addressing the practice of interior design)
They lost in Washington State but the Interior Design Cartel of ASID/IIDA/NCIDQ is trying to pass an Interior Design Practic Act in CALIFORNIA.

If this passes, it will be used to justify legislation in Washington State next year.

If you have design industry friends in California the time is now to let them know about this DANGEROUS LEGISLATION.

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California Interior Design Legislation & Licensing-IDCC Launches Push for Restrictive Interior Design Practice Act in Califronia

We've just heard that the Interior Design Cartel ASID/IIDA/NCIDQ & the College Interior Design Schools are launching a campaign to pass a restrictive Interior Design Practice Act & Licensing bill in California. This bill will remove the voluntary system currenty in effect in California.

In California the "front group" for the Interior Design Cartel is called IDCC:
www-idc-ca-org

The Califronia Bill Number is Senate Bill 1312 (SB 1312).

Here's a statement from the IDCC website:

"The Interior Design Coalition of California Presents Practice Act Legislation"

The Interior Design Coalition of California (IDCC) announces that after three years of research and meetings throughout California that they are sponsoring Senate Bill 1312 which will be introduced in April. Senator Leland Lee, PhD, is the author, and the Coalition has been able to secure many co-authors to support this action."


Please contact your California State Legislator and California State Senator to voice your OPPOSITION to new Interior Design Legislation in California and the restrictive Interior Design Practice Act SB 1312 that is being pushed by the Interior Design Cartel and IDCC.


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California Interior Design Legislation [by Anonymous Citizen on March 25, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 3223 (Addressing the practice of interior design)
They lost in Washington State but the Interior Design Cartel of ASID/IIDA/NCIDQ is trying to pass an Interior Design Practic Act in CALIFORNIA.

If this passes, it will be used to justify legislation in Washington State next year.

If you have design industry friends in California the time is now to let them know about this DANGEROUS LEGISLATION.

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California Interior Design Legislation & Licensing-IDCC Launches Push for Restrictive Interior Design Practice Act in Califronia

We've just heard that the Interior Design Cartel ASID/IIDA/NCIDQ & the College Interior Design Schools are launching a campaign to pass a restrictive Interior Design Practice Act & Licensing bill in California. This bill will remove the voluntary system currenty in effect in California.

In California the "front group" for the Interior Design Cartel is called IDCC:
www-idc-ca-org

The Califronia Bill Number is Senate Bill 1312 (SB 1312).

Here's a statement from the IDCC website:

"The Interior Design Coalition of California Presents Practice Act Legislation"

The Interior Design Coalition of California (IDCC) announces that after three years of research and meetings throughout California that they are sponsoring Senate Bill 1312 which will be introduced in April. Senator Leland Lee, PhD, is the author, and the Coalition has been able to secure many co-authors to support this action."


Please contact your California State Legislator and California State Senator to voice your OPPOSITION to new Interior Design Legislation in California and the restrictive Interior Design Practice Act SB 1312 that is being pushed by the Interior Design Cartel and IDCC.



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Really? [by Anonymous Citizen on March 25, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2424 (Regarding grocery checkout bags)
Really? "Paper bags have almost no reuse potential"? Seriously? Where are you living and how old are you? If you were alive prior to the early 1990's before plastic bags were a problem. Paper bags were reused many times, and continue to do so.
Do they not have curbside recycling where you live? Do you not see paper bags being used every week to recycle cans and bottles?
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east sider [by Anonymous Citizen on March 22, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
People keep referring to the Govenor's gas tax. It isn't the Govenor's it's ours. The gas tax was voted on by the people and passed with a large majority. We were willing to tax ourselves for the benefit of our highways and bridges. Now that gas is off the wall, we blame it on the Govenor and the tree huggers. Please, people let's at least be civil and stop the sterotypes.
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Charge By the Mile [by Anonymous Citizen on March 22, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
I want to know how they are going to charge by the mile? Will that be a tax, and will it be imposed on tourist? Toll booths at every corner?

I believe that if we all STOP BREATHING today, we could cut ALL of our carbon emissions instantaneously. Problem cured.

Somebody, get real. This proposed legislations on "green technology" and cutting emissions is not doing a damn thing, in fact I belive a lot of the technology, and laws are creating more pollution, and issues than it solves.

People don't see "global warming" as an issue, because its not an issue. We see it as "Chicken Little" or as a little "Boy who cried Wolf", and as the normal Earth cycle that it is. Man's impact is exaggerated and without definitive scientific data. Every one points to the "ICE" but ice study s are new, and other factors could affect that research more than we currently understand and I believe it will require more research before it can ever be accepted as definitive EARTH temperature measurements over eons of time. Beyond that man's ability to manipulate the Earth's climate is outside of his reach and technological ability at this time to control, even regionally.

We are skeptical, and want more scientific evidence before we commit to a course of action that may bring more harm than good, or is economically unsound, and without real scientific study. Science first, then solutions based on scientific research that make an actual change. Not lets experiment and see if it fixes the perceived problem. I believe in sound management of all our resources, and protecting the environment. But right now this is one issues that a lot of people we are all going off on half cocked!

Derick
Bonham, TX
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Eco-Terrorists in Govt [by Anonymous Citizen on March 22, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
The eco-terrorists are running the government. Studies have shown that if EVERYONE stopped driving their car, CO2 emissions would drop by less than 1%.
Ther is no man made global warming. "99% of climate scientists agree" is false and a LIE.
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More "FEES?" [by Anonymous Citizen on March 21, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
Why don't you just make the roads that need repairs and upkeep into "toll roads" like they do in the East? It would make you a lot more friends and the way the economy is now, with almost a 20% increase in the first 2 months of 2008, Seniors only getting a 2% COLA, how are we to keep surviving?????? Forcing us to buy HDTV's and more things we can't afford, even medicines, Try thinking of some of us that are not as well off as you guys that have your wages, retirements, (if you were not foolish enough to believe the garbage bush handed out on his election crap), like do your own investing, etc. you are probably not too bad off.
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More "FEES?" [by Anonymous Citizen on March 21, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
Why don't you just make the roads that need repairs and upkeep into "toll roads" like they do in the East? It would make you a lot more friends and the way the economy is now, with almost a 20% increase in the first 2 months of 2008, Seniors only getting a 2% COLA, how are we to keep surviving?????? Forcing us to buy HDTV's and more things we can't afford, even medicines, Try thinking of some of us that are not as well off as you guys that have your wages, retirements, (if you were not foolish enough to believe the garbage bush handed out on his election crap), like do your own investing, etc. you are probably not too bad off.
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narrow minded [by Anonymous Citizen on March 21, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 2013 (Authorizing tribal and Indian nation law enforcement officers to act as Washington state peace officers.)
I ask my self why isn't there a cop around when I see someone doing something stupid..This bill helps local jurisdictions by adding more police on the street by allowing tribal cops, who go to the same police academy as state or local cops. Would it make you feel better if trhe local chief or sheriff cross-deputized tribal police? They most likely will only enforce basic WA traffic laws and back other agencies when man power is an issue.....

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ignorant [by Anonymous Citizen on March 21, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 2013 (Authorizing tribal and Indian nation law enforcement officers to act as Washington state peace officers.)
yes, they do have to abide by state law; just as if you go to another country. you have to abide by that law..

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Thank You Olympia [by Anonymous Citizen on March 21, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2815 (greenhouse gas emissions and green collar jobs)
If 99 percent of aeronautical engineers said the plane you were about to get on was going to crash, would you still get on it? 99 percent of all climate scientists say that global warming is very real and is mostly due to man-made causes, so why don't folks want to believe it? This is not a left or right wing issue. My thanks to anyone involved in making this legislation happen.
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Toxic chemicals [by Anonymous Citizen on March 20, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2423 (Concerning the composting and recycling of certain food service packaging)
Geoff, you must be a complete idiot. How did you even find this website? Consider the fact that your burger was probably wrapped up in a lovely chemical (PFOS, PFOA). Gee, what about the trees that die for the sake of your burger wrapper? What about the fact that McDonald's only recycles less than 30% of it's waste when over 93% of it is recyclable?

We have a fast food packaging problem on our hands. We've unfortunately become reliant on an industry that we've made extremely wealthy, yet they haven't exactly had our best interests at heart, have they?

"FDA scientists have noted that food packaging represents the worst case scenario for PFCs to migrate into food. In one FDA study packaging released several hundred times more PFCs than cookware coated with substances like Teflon (PFOA is used in the making of Teflon).

Recent studies have demonstrated the presence of PFOS and PFOA in more than 98 per cent of US citizens' blood and 100 percent of 293 newborns surveyed.

The bill says that PFOA is considered by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be a likely carcinogen and is considered to be a chemical that induces breast tumours in animals. Also, PFOA ad PFOS have been linked to impaired growth of babies in the womb."

We need federal laws. Pronto! No fast food restaurant is going to do the right thing and dip into their profits unless they are forced to do so.
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WA Supreme Court [by Anonymous Citizen on March 19, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2771 (creating an administrative sobriety check point)
I hope the Washington Supreme Court's recent unanimous decision holding suspicionless searches unconstitutional in the context of random highschool drug testing will signal the death of this bill.

If it does not, whoever continues to support it will have some 'splaining to do.
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ESB5751 [by Anonymous Citizen on March 19, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5751 (Creating a wine and beer tasting pilot project in grocery stores.)
This is terrible legislation and I am ashamed of our elected officials for passing such a detrimental bill. I encourage the Governor to VETO THIS BILL.

Linda Johnson, Chair
Maple Valley Communities That Care Coalition
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Is This Applicable to Me?? [by Anonymous Citizen on March 18, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 2014 (Addressing the regulation of conversion condominiums.)
Does anybody know if this bill is applicable to me?? I received notice to vacate (due to condo conversion) on the 2nd of February. They have offered me the $500 required by the previous law, but under this new one I would get to stay longer and would receive more money. Why is it so hard to find information on simple questions like this??
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Electric cars do pollute. [by Anonymous Citizen on March 17, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
Ya! What makes you think that the electric car you are driveing does not pollute. Or are you just to brain washed by your pollatitions and the media to know any better. Well more then 50% of the electricity in this country is made by burning coal. Plus what are you going to do with those batteries when you have to replace them because they will not hold a change any more? And god forbid if you have to drive farther the a 100 miles. It take quite a while to charge that little death trap you are driveing. Just keep praying you never get hit in one of those thing. Because if they have to cut you out of it. Well you might be in it for a while, if not forever!
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What? [by Anonymous Citizen on March 17, 2008]
about 2007 Senate Bill 5336 (Protecting individuals in domestic partnerships by granting certain rights and benefits.)
You must be off your meds, my friend. Because the garbage you spout has no connection with reality.
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Rain on the parade [by Anonymous Citizen on March 17, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 3104 (Expanding rights and responsibilities for domestic partnerships)
Get off the self-righteous soapbox pulll-ease.

Your insinuation that all the bad parents are heterosexual and all the good parents are homosexual is laughable at best. True, there is a larger proportion of bad parents among heterosexuals but that is only because the sheer number of heterosexual parents far outnumbers that of homosexual parents.

While I'm sure there are plenty of good homosexual parents, the child in a homosexual family needs to be raised knowing full well that their family situation is the exception and NOT the norm and I'm not sure that that is being fulfilled. If homosexual parenting was the way of nature, then it would be possible for homosexuals to create life together not just raise children after they were created by someone elses intervention.
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Marriage [by Anonymous Citizen on March 17, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 3104 (Expanding rights and responsibilities for domestic partnerships)
In response to only heterosexual persons should be able to get married because of children I object. As a psychotherapist and someone who has worked for CPS it's time we start looking at what the heterosexual community has done to our children, sexual abuse, molest, rape. Parents of today are selfish and we have hundreds of thousands of children that need GOOD parents which homosexual parents make GREAT parents. Our society is toxic and you need to think of all the children that are in foster care needing good homes. I want to have all the rights of any married couple as I have raised a foster child to majority and she is a successful citizen. Ocean Shores, Wa
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Miinesota [by Anonymous Citizen on March 17, 2008]
about 2007 House Bill 1108 (Concerning visitation rights for grandparents.)
you are absolutly correct, I put an harrasment order on my daughters Grandparents and in return they filed for full custody of my child. Now it is going on two years of harrasement through litigation. How is this possible? The Grandparents are manuplitive and nasty. They have told my daughter awful things about me and still the judge has not thrown it out of court. I do not have a lot of money to spend fighting them and they know this of course through discovery of everything I have. I feel as though they are raping me of my rights as a parent.
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Agree [by Anonymous Citizen on March 17, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6900 (Establishing vehicle engine displacement and emissions fees)
Man oh man do I ever agree. Just when the prices are going up on everything the democrats want to ruin us completely. I do give them credit, if they can't come up with an old tax they will invent a new one. Did they ever think of supporting improved Mass Transit, there is a thing called "trains" in europe, you can can connect almost anywhere and you don't need a car what a concept.
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to; get a life [by Anonymous Citizen on March 16, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6923 (Providing for a passenger vehicle greenhouse gas excise tax)
That's moron logic for ya. You make the mistake, and you tell the others to get a life. What a Jerk. Like the man said " Get your facts STRAIT so you don't make a fool of yourself. I guess it's too late for that FOOL.

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GET A LIFE [by SIDNY on March 16, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6923 (Providing for a passenger vehicle greenhouse gas excise tax)
Thank you for the rather colorful response to Sine Die. The initiative was I-960 not I-695. Sorry for the error.
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anonymous [by Anonymous Citizen on March 16, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6332 (Increasing the debt limit of the housing finance commission)
Are you kidding! This sounds like Reagonomics. If one needs to justify a way to over spend then you raise the debt limit, POOF everything is fine driving the company faster into the ground. Is this what you teach your children, if you can't aford a Ferrari buy it anyway, just pretent your credit limit is higher than it is?
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Re: sine Die [by Anonymous Citizen on March 16, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6923 (Providing for a passenger vehicle greenhouse gas excise tax)
Whate the hell commic book are you getting your infomation from? You're asking for BIG trouble spreading rumors like this. If you think that being an anonymous citizen will keep them from finding out who you are, You just might be in for a big surprise. There is no such thing as anonymous on the internet. Good luck !!!!!
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Reply to sine and die [by Anonymous Citizen on March 16, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6923 (Providing for a passenger vehicle greenhouse gas excise tax)
What the hell rock did you crawl out from under. Both these bills went in the shitter, and there is no legal action being taken against I-695. You are so full of shit you're eyes must be brown. Get a life Jerk !!!!
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to sine die [by Anonymous Citizen on March 16, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6923 (Providing for a passenger vehicle greenhouse gas excise tax)
I do not know where you get your information. I do know first hand though that you need to get all the facts before you go and make a fool of yourself. There is no such leagal action against the voters for I-695. All I CAN Say is that I am in a position where it is my buisness to know any such activity FIRST HAND!!, and I'm here to tell you that you Sir,or Mam whichever the case may be, know not what you're talking about. These are the kind of RUMORS that keep things stired up. So don't buy trouble where there is none, there is enough going around without buying more.
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SINE DIE [by SIDNY on March 15, 2008]
about 2008 Senate Bill 6923 (Providing for a passenger vehicle greenhouse gas excise tax)
Its all over but the hard to watch signing ceremonies. Big winners are gays, greens,and global warming worshipers. They can all take big high fives. Losers are the taxpayers who were expecting some basic functions, and services of government. We have just witnessed another costly expansion of government that may only benefit a few polar bears. Good government in Olympia is a thing of the past and I no longer expect much from my elected representatives. The initiative process still offers hope but is continually being undermined by underhanded legislation. This session has brought on a law suit. The taxpayers are being sued by Sen. Brown( D Spokane) for passing I-695. No shortage of arrogance in Olympia. Sine Die
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whatever happened to hb 2977? [by Anonymous Citizen on March 15, 2008]
about 2008 House Bill 2977 (Concerning the burden of proof for corrections to property tax valuations made by public officials)
Having listened to the public hearing it is hard to understnd why the legislature would not pass this bill. The Assessors routinely defend their values with little more than the "presumption of correctness" and the "clear, cogent and convincing" standard of proof. Why would they need more than a preponderance of evidence?
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