Jay Inslee stood before a group of reporters wearing an orange tie and a scowl. “Folks,” the Democratic governor said on the morning of February 8, “the Senate Republicans are out of control.”
Inslee’s statement—and nearly 30 minutes of even more thinly veiled rage—came after weeks of Republicans pushing extreme legislation and the last minute firing of Inslee’s transportation director by Republican legislators. Republicans in Olympia have tried to restrict access to abortion, delay funding for education, and “quarantine” cities across the state from wage increases and sick time laws. That’s to say nothing of their rabid attacks on trans people.
Seattle regularly sends Democratic lawmakers to the capital. But electing Seattle Democrats is not enough. In order to turn off the bigoted garbage fountain of Republican legislation and to make it easier to pass common-sense laws, Democrats must retake the state senate…
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