State Sen. Joseph Zarelli, R- Ridgefield and ranking minority member of Ways and Means, responding to criticism of his 2007 “Convergence Northwest” conference that featured extreme-right speakers and Knesset members:
Zarelli said the conference was open to the public but told The Columbian he did not invite Muslims to make presentations because, “It’s not my purpose or goal to understand why somebody wants to kill Americans.”
I wish I could report that Democrat Jon Haugen was a worthy adversary for Zarelli in the 18th LD, but unfortunately Haugen is about as wingnutty as they come too.
I have submitted Initiative to the People 997
Initiative Measure No. 997 concerns valuation of single-family residences
for property tax purposes. I have spoken with Tim Eyman about this idea
and discussed the uniformity clause of the Washington State Constitution.This measure would limit tax valuation of single-family residences to the
assessed value on December 31, 2005, adjusted annually for inflation but
not greater than two percent higher than the previous year’s valuation.
Should this measure be enacted into law?
Great. An end of times candidate or a Tim Eyman candidate. Some choice.
another Haugen platform:
“We send enough money to Olympia. We must change the way in which
this money is spent.
My ‘English Only’ stance is one part of this change. The state should
spend no money on translation to any other language for any document.
Those here legally must learn English.”
I’d support much of the english only plank. I think English is part of the glue that hold America together.
Haugen’s initiative would make sense if it was limited to people and rabbits over age 62. Inflation is an extremely serious problem for retirees because their incomes don’t go up. Even under existing laws, property taxes often go up faster than general inflation, and many retirees’ incomes (including mine) don’t go up at all. This could force an elderly rabbit out of his burrow and force him to sleep on a park bench instead of a safe comfy hole.
@1 I think we should stop sending $127 million a year of King County gas taxes to Republican counties and let them pay for their own fucking roads. I think we should stop subsidizing their schools, too. Their kids don’t learn anything anyway and grow up to vote Republican just like their ignorant parents did.
I would also like to stop paying federal income taxes to subsidize Republican farmers and ranchers, and I would like to stop paying higher electricity rates to subsidize expensive reclamation and irrigation projects and below-cost electricity rates for Republican farmers’ irrigation pumps.
If those rugged individualist self made Republican welfare bums can’t make it on their own without handouts from big-city taxpayers and ratepayers let ’em go under. They’ve been sucking on the public tit for 75 years and that’s long enough. In these financially strapped times we need to get rid of expensive government programs that have outlived their usefulness and are nothing but socialism.
I also think we should tell Texans, Alaskans, and Southerners to either talk American or leave this country.
Remember the movie “Brewster’s Millions”?
Perhaps concerned voters there should launch a “None of the Above” campaign.