Washington 2020: The Calm Before the Drizzle

[RI]

WA Dems are requiring a $1 million "buy-in" paid to the party from any gubernatorial candidate who wants to be endorsed or advertised by the party.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24612100-2024-coordinated-campaign-prospectus-sen-mullet

[Frodo]

Washington State's new carbon 'cap and invest' law is now facing the ballot box this November thanks to disgruntled motorists and libertarians.  What are its prospects of survival?

[Steve from Lambeth]

Probably pretty good. I'm more interested in the CGT reversal vote myself.

[RI]

Probably pretty good. I'm more interested in the CGT reversal vote myself.

I agree. The long-term care tax is definitely going to lose, the cap-and-trade system is more likely than not going to be repealed, and the capital gains tax is a toss-up which I'd handicap slightly more likely than not to be kept.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Long-term care tax might survive if enough people have forgotten what a debacle it is.

Washington voters like to vote for things that sound good.  "Long-term care" sounds good.  The fact that the actual implementation is one of the worst things ever concocted doesn't really matter.

[RI]

Former Bothell City Councilmember (defeated in 2023) James McNeal was arrested for homicide after being found with a dead 20-year-old girl in a house in Seattle.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Former Bothell City Councilmember (defeated in 2023) James McNeal was arrested for homicide after being found with a dead 20-year-old girl in a house in Seattle.

Wow, shocking stuff! Very, very disappointing.

[RI]

Tiffany Smiley is primarying Dan Newhouse