Washington Votes Forum

Well, this is a surprise from a Democrat. Whatever happened to open government and transparency? Any well-trained and organized staff should be able to maintain files and identify and collect copies. How do you prove harassment? We have identified many violations of state law by obtaining PRA documents.

There are already federal and state licensing and certification standards; adding another layer is wasteful and costly to no end.

So long as the state insists on applying Seattle-scale rules to rural counties, I'm behind this.[quote user="admin"]Introduced in the House on January 10, 2012 Click here to view bill details. [/quote]

If the state is serious about endangered species, it only makes sense to parallel the species declared endangered by the feds. Why exactly do we as a state need our own special list? And why go on and on with "endangered," "threatened," "species of concern"? It's ludicrous--if it's a problem, get it listed.

Oh, good--let's not work on the deficit or reducing Ecology's mission creep--let's get them to produce even MORE paper.

Just what we need in time of fiscal emergency--legislators diverting Ecology staff to produce reports.

Declares an "emergency" and imposes a new permanent tax. Some of us think that the hundreds of millions of dollars we already pay the state are supposed to pay for state services. This notion of creating special funds to address pieces of government is a smokescreen--do your job and address everything in the budget. We are not THAT stupid

I kept looking for proposed bills to address the overwhelming deficit and what do I find? More wasteful, nonsensical bills. Every arm of government is already required to treat the tribes as co-equals (which they are not) and consult thenat every turn. It's time we all decided whether we are one nation or not. If not, end federal funding of tribes