Elections, Government & Politics

WHY DOESNT THE NEW GAS TAX PAY FOR ROADS AS THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES?

Lewis County Reader explains how and why new "carbon" policies will cost each consumer and what the state will do with the dollars... By Lewis County Reader Ruth Peterson   Almost everyone by now has probably heard about what a lot of people are calling a gas tax that has now taken effect. I have had issue with the way this has been presented, because it is not a gas tax. It will likely ...

Election 2022: In Whatcom County: the Tax Man wins (by 20 Votes)

42nd District turns away new "Kids" property tax. In a vote counter to the Republican/Democrat  vote in the 42nd the so called Kid's initiative was turned back by a 56% to 44% NO vote.  The NO vote in the 42nd was more than the Democrat Senate race Candidate: Sharon Shewmake by about 6000 votes!  Generally its Democrats associated with the policies of higher taxes and also voting for regressive taxes like the property tax. ...

Election Report 2022 A Tale of two elections

  A tale of two elections in 2022: The 42nd District Sen. Simon Sefzik Sen Elect. Sharon Shewmake, D-42 Disappearing leads from Primary to General elections are generally very rare; but the 42nd Legislative District in northern Whatcom County began the habit in 2018.  All three Republicans lost the Primary elections but two of the three Republicans were elected in the General: one by 45 votes and the other by ...

The Fourth Corner General Election 2022 election.

THE FOURTH CORNER  RECOMMENDATIONS!! Here they are:         A.  STATEWIDE: U.S. Senate Tiffany Smiley. U.S. Congress Representative District 2 Dan Matthews State Secretary of State to fill Kim Wyman's term: Julie Anderson seems to favor ranked order voting which is actually being voted on in Seattle this type of voting removes the one person one vote rule and weighs votes differently. VOTE RECOMMENDATION: Either Steve Hobbs or Protest Write-In Brad Klippert ...

Turned in Ballots lowest in 8 Years

TURN IN YOUR BALLOTS ASAP (make sure your vote gets Counted) Ninth Day of Ballot turn in shows lowest rate since 2014: So far in Northern Whatcom County and the 42nd Legislative District turnout is running well below average as of the Ninth Day of Checking in Ballots.  So far unofficially 31642 ballots have been turned in to the Auditor in preparation for counting on Election Day.  With the Fourth Corner's unofficial count of ...

Is The Ferndale Aluminum Smelter coming back? Sefzik on Capital Budget funding

Intalco “We did very well in the Senate’s capital budget proposal,” Sefzik said. “I am especially excited about the $10 million appropriation for Intalco. Restart is looking more and more like reality.” They include funding for the missing link of the Jim Kaemingk, Sr. Trail in Lynden, and a pump station and housing for the developmentally disabled in Blaine. All told, the Senate capital budget proposal provides $11.8 million for the 42nd ...

Senate Democrat Leader Fails in getting ruling to stop Senator Sefzik Speech on the Floor of State Senate.

Legislature's youngest member riffs from Ben Franklin to Darth Vader On Wednesday February 15th Senator Simon Sefzik of the 42nd District stood up to speak for an amendment to Senate Bill 5909.  The Bill was brought forth to rein in the Governor's powers during an emergency.  Senator Sefzik was speaking in favor of an amendment to make the bill even stronger and was called to task by the Leader of the Democrats Andy Billig ...

Ben Elenbaas Raises 32K since campaign began.

Here is a list of his PDC Contributions In a press release from the Ben Elenbaas for State Senate in the 42nd District campaign... the campaign states it has collected $32,000 for its campaign. He has also earned the "public endorsement of both conservative Whatcom County Councilmembers, Kathy Kershner and Tyler Byrd. More from the press release: Republicans in the 42nd face a set of very real challenges: In 2018, Democrats won the House seat ...

City of Blaine: Small Towns letter to state officials “might not represent the best solution”

Mayor of Blaine: Some of our council members felt very strongly that this letter might not represent the best solution. You Decide.   WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — Some small city mayors in Whatcom County sent the following letter to the heads of 4 state agencies asking them to implement water management solutions addressing floods, drought and other problems that they say have damaged their communities in the past year.   From: January 28, 2022 ...

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