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According to the Seattle Times editorial board, Democrats are bad people:THE priority of the majority Democrats in Olympia has not been economic recovery. If it were, the Legislature would not be leaning on the taxpayer for nine-tenths of a billion d...

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Last year, when an internal labor email surfaced threatening to cut off contributions to Democrats if they failed to pass the Workers Privacy Act, the Democratic Governor, House Speaker and Senate Majority leader literally called the cops on the unio...

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I ve been too preoccupied to conduct my usual fisking of Seattle Times editorials in recent days, but that hasn t made them any less worthy of mockery.Temporarily increase the King County sales tax to maintain police, jails and courts? Enough is eno...

topics: elected, government, obama, unions

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Eight in 10 Americans oppose U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened floodgates for corporations and unions to spend unlimited money on political campaigns, says new ABC News/Washington Post poll....

topics: campaign, political, supreme-court, unions

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Michael Barone: Public-sector unions bleed taxpayers ......

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Do read the WSJ column on public employee unions which Carter mentioned earlier:As we can see from the desperate economic and fiscal woes of California, New Jersey, New York and other states with dominant public unions [e.g. Washington], this has......

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The Republican mantra is that the real problem with the state budget is that state employees simply make too much and enjoy far too generous benefits. If we could just get rid of those damn public employee unions, we could balance our state budget me...

topics: attorney-general, health-care, republican, republicans, unions

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A controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday that says businesses and unions may spend freely in political campaigns shouldn't have much effect in Washington state, campaign watchdog officials say....

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I guess you get the Supreme Court you pay for:In a ruling that radically reshapes campaign-finance law, the Supreme Court has struck down a key campaign-finance restriction that bars corporations and unions from pouring money into political ads.The ...

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How can we get control of our budget? Expect a multi-billion dollar stimulus from The One? Not! Union state workers will be getting pay increases next year, says The Olympian. Cuts? Yes, there are, but not where the unions have......