Republicans love to talk about fiscal responsibility, but if they want to walk the walk, they might want to stop wasting taxpayer dollars filing frivilous ethics complaints against Gov. Gregoire.
Back in April, Washington State Republican Party chair Luke Esser filed an ethics complaint alleging the Governor used public funds to campaign for reelection, specifically citing a survey conducted on behalf of the Washington Learns Commission, a six city “listening tour,” and a public relations contract.
Five months later, after the Governor’s office spent countless hours at taxpayer expense providing hundreds of documents to investigators, the Washington State Executive Ethics Board has delivered a 16-page report unanimously dismissing the complaint as “obviously unfounded or frivilous.”
Jesus, Luke… the Washington Learns survey you cited wasn’t even paid for with taxpayer money. Do your goddamn homework.
I agree with Goldy. It’s stupid for Republicans to file ethics charges against Democrats cuz us Democrats never do anything unethical. It’s the evil Republicans who do unethical stuff.
SOmebody should sue the state GOP to recover the money. I’m sure the BIAW has it laying around on their dressers and such.
Just stack this up with their (GOP’s) bullshit lawsuit on the governer’s race.
….and they hate lawyers.
“Gregoire says state expects deficit next year
Gov. Christine Gregoire for the first time Thursday echoed what Republicans have been saying for months: The state will face a budget deficit next legislative session.
By Andrew Garber
Seattle Times Olympia bureau
OLYMPIA — Gov. Christine Gregoire for the first time Thursday echoed what Republicans have been saying for months: The state faces a budget deficit next legislative session.
“I’m expecting a shortfall and I’m preparing for it,” she said in a telephone interview.”
Anyone in leadership that takes this long to even acknowledge an obvious problem deserves to be fired. Gregoire blames Washington and pretends to demand accountability. She ought to start with herself.
Working families have not increased their spending over 31% the past 4 years like Gregoire did.
To only now acknowledge the Budget Trainwreck she created is telling…she is either blind or incompetent. Neither one is good.
And we still haven’t heard a peep about the DEFICIT in the State Retirement Fund. Governor Gregoire, someone someday is going to have to fund this. While you increased spending $8 BILLION and created a phoney-baloney Rainy Day Fund for political window-dressing, the State Retirement Fund went deeper and deeper into debt and our Budget situation is now disastrous.
The question now is this:
Do voters trust Gregoire, the person who caused this mess with overspending, to fix her mess? Do voters trust Gregoire, who only now even acknowledges the problem, to fix her mess? Do voters trust Gregoire, a 39-year Government tax-and-spend Bureaucrat to fix this mess without a major tax increase? Do voters trust Gregoire who now says she is preparing some secret mystical plan for fixing her mess??
I don’t?
Please Lefty’s….share with us why we should?
She had to increase spending cuz people wanted better services and to maintain our quality of life and stuff. She is only doing what we want, and doing what is best for us. Besides, the deficit is Bush’s fault.
PS
Rossi is evil.
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Yawn
You GOP-paid trolls never stay on topic do you?
passionatejus-
It is on topic.
Gregoire is the one who should be under investigation for Budget malfeasance and/or misfeasance in office.
Knowingly overspending in the face of a recession. Knowingly overspending knowing and admitting it was not sustainable.
You should demand an investigation into this Washington Budget catastrophe!
Hehehe…..
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No, actually you are off topic.
My land will be more saleable if the BIAW gets its way.
I know that Republican policies lead to financial bubbles and the resultant financial catastrophes. But there is money to be made in these totally unnecessary upheavals.
I have done remarkably well over the past five years playing the housing bubble. I’m debt free. I came here with nothing and now I own a 2300 sq. ft. home on a little over an acre of wooded land — with a beautiful stream on the edge of the property.
A lifetime of dealing with the economic vagaries of this country has taught me this: 1) Republican money management is abusive and manipulative. 2) You’d better learn to take advantage of the bubbles and downturns because Democrats lack the will to do anything about it.