Patients First! Ask Valley and Deaconess Hospitals, Spokane, Wa, to do the Right Thing.![]() Since Community Health Systems Inc. started reducing staffing levels at their hospitals in Spokane and Spokane Valley, patient injuries have increased. Medical staff is POed, went on strike for one day, and is asking for a bargaining date to discuss a return to staffing levels that can adequately take care of the patient health at Spokane Deaconess Hospital and at Valley Hospital. Hospital work is obviously not like manufacturing lawn ornaments. Human wealth fare is at stake. Union members at Deaconess Hospital and at Valley Hospital felt a moral obligation to speak up and take a stand about how staffing levels are impacting their ability to take care of patients. Moreover, union members gave the hospital plenty notice of the strike and plenty time to bring in replacement workers, which they did. They only went on strike for one day, and then showed up for work. Kevin Graman reports at SpokaneWatch.net. (317 comments, 441 words in story) Full Story Cathy McMorris Rodgers Voting Record and Politics![]() There is a new website with Cathy McMorris Rodgers voting record. It leaves no doubt that she is a an extreme conservative who rarely deviates from her Republican party on important national issues. Even the Walla Walla Bulletin had this to say.
McMorris Rodgers is a rigid conservative and highly partisan . . . [and] isn't willing to compromise on major national issues.-Editorial Board, Walla Walla Union Bulletin. You will want to check out the site for more details, but let's cut to the chase. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers voted with the Republican leadership 97% of the time in the 111th Congress while casting 1654 votes. This makes her one of the most partisan and conservative members of congress. McMorris Rodgers voted for the extreme 2013 GOP Budget to end Medicare as we know it. Likewise, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers voting record agreed with the American Conservative Union 96% percent of the time. Also, the Club for Growth scored her as voting with them 94% of the time, Family Research Council 100% of the time, the National Taxpayers Union 89% of the time, and the National Chamber of Commerce 100% of the time (see WikiPedia). (334 comments, 330 words in story) Full Story The Grand Old Perpetraitors Versus National Defense
The over all integrity of a nation will most immediately and powerfully be impacted by the models presented by its political parties.
That modeling ought to be a natural attention-grabber. That modeling ought to present a public affirmation of concern for good of the country rather than political opportunism as the height of its most significant values - or the depth of its apathetic depravity. (221 comments, 597 words in story) Full Story On Gun-Toting Straight-Shooting Kindergarten Konstitutionalists
Updated 2-10-2013
Unfunny humor about gun control
"There seemed to be no point to the gathering other to give some gun owners an opportunity to show off their toys in public. (197 comments, 1127 words in story) Full Story Would you want these folks teaching high school civics classes?
After a lengthy hiatus and a move to Eastern Washington, I have returned to writing on Washblog
The failed Republican civic behavior is only worsened and made more complicated with the pitiful public relations failures of Flush Limbaugh and Fox News with its stupor stars, Squawk Hannity and The Fracture O' Reilly. They have all now childishly teamed up to become a significant part of the problem with no relationship to the solution. The absence of any sense of civic responsibility is overwhelmingly louder than any party or broadcast rhetoric itself. How would you like it if these kinds of Kindergarten Konservatives were teaching your children civic values? (675 comments, 661 words in story) Full Story Movement for Two-Thirds Majority for New Taxes Goes Local![]() The Spokane City Council recently voted in favor of placing Prop 1 for two-thirds rule on the local February ballot (along with two other issues including Prop 1 for independent investigative powers for the Spokane Police Ombudsman). The effort for the 2/3 majority ballot title was supported by Mike Fagan (in the picture to the right), freshman city council person, and frequent co-sponsor of Eyman initiatives to reduce state revenue needed for parks, education, environmental protection, and other services from the State of Washington. Because of the number of seats on the Spokane City Council, this would effectively be a five-sevenths (5/7) majority needed to pass new revenue proposals. (224 comments, 444 words in story) Full Story Progressive Voters Guide: For those tough voting decisions
You likely have already figured out whether you are voting for President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. However, what about for the Commissioner of Public Lands? Or Initiative 1185? Judicial races? The ProgressiveVotersGuide.com by Fuse Washington can help.
The [2012] election has huge implications for our families, our communities, and our state. Our goal is to make smart, informed voting based on progressive values easier for you. We worked with Washington's leading progressive organizations to produce a Progressive Voters Guide based on their endorsements - your ticket to highly informed recommendations about the races on your ballot. The Progressive Voters Guide identifies the candidates with the most progressive track records and the ballot measure positions that will protect or promote progress in Washington. (444 comments) Comments >> Matt Shea (R) Pulled Handgun on Motorist in Spokane![]()
"I wish to state that under no circumstances would I support Matt Shea for any public office," Senator Bob McCaslin (R) stated to the Spokane County Commissioners as they were deliberating who to appoint to a vacate seat to State House. He was speeding like he usually does. He admits it. Leroy Norris likes to put the pedal to the metal, and last November he was returning home to his residence on the South Hill at a fast clip in his Chevy Lumina. Then, a pickup truck drove along-side of Leroy, and the driver pulled a handgun out of his glove box in plain view of Leroy. Leroy freaked out, and he took off at an even higher speed in fear for his life. Really, who wouldn't be afraid? With little or no concern for the safety of other drivers, pedestrians, or kids playing in the neighborhood, the driver of the pickup truck proceeds to chase Leroy Norris up the South Hill on Monroe Street. One or both vehicles exceeded 60-miles per hour at times through the residential area. The driver of the pickup truck was Washington State Representative Matt Shea (R). Despite Matt Shea's minor celebrity status as a local elected official, an officer of the Spokane Police Department recognized a threat to the community when he saw one. The good'ol boy network did not work for Matt Shea. Lt. Dan Torok of the Spokane Police Department cited Republican Matt Shea, Spokane Valley, for two violations of State firearms law in the road rage incident. Leroy Norris was not cited for any offense. To the right is a YouTube video that was produced by Eastern Washington Voters about the firearms incident involving Matt Shea with more info at SpokaneWatch.net (213 comments, 1622 words in story) Full Story Sheryl Gordon McCloud for Washington State Supreme Court
(1421 comments) Comments >> Must-Know Voting Rights Resources for GOTV
Below are links to resources I see as especially helpful for people doing GOTV. Most of them are from a reprint of an email that I received from the League of Women Voters of Washington this morning. I've added several links on restoration of voting rights for people with prior felonies from ACLU - and information on registration deadlines (in-person voter registration is possible through October 29 in Washington) from Washington's Secretary of State.
(721 comments, 604 words in story) Full Story Washington State Voters' Guide is Supported by Kathleen Drew for Washington State Secretary StateI was impressed with Kathleen Drew, candidate for Washington State Secretary of State, when I met her at the Lentil Festival in Pullman a few months ago. She had a good clear grasp of the issues affecting the Office of the Secretary of State, including the need to more fully fund the Washington State Voters' Guide, or the Voter's pamphlet if you will.
Below is the text of the youtube video of her, compliments of Eastern Washington Voters. (1202 comments, 289 words in story) Full Story Todd Mielke: When is a bribe not a bribe?![]() However, Lancze Douglass would not have anything to do with it, so he told Mike Prager of the Spokesman Review the story. (791 comments, 291 words in story) Full Story Liberty Lake Jobs: The Stimulus Act of 2009 creates a few
The Stimulus Act of 2009 has been working, and we appreciate that Jay Inslee supported it when he was in Congress. The Act has helped create jobs in Liberty Lake, WA, and boost Washington employment in general.
The Demand Energy project in Liberty Lake, WA, will retain and create about 90 Liberty Lake jobs in the County of Spokane. As part of the 2009 Stimulus Package, the company Demand Energy received a $1. 5 million grant to make energy storage devices for on-site users of electricity. (662 comments, 240 words in story) Full Story Everything you need to know about Ron Paul
As a typical egotistical, arrogant, columnist/blogger, I usually think I can express my viewpoints better than anyone else. But when it comes to summing up the Ron Paul situation, the conservative blogger Erick Erikson says everything anyone needs to know.
This is from Erick's column today in www.redstate.com: "Let me get this straight. Twenty years ago someone put some crazy, racist stuff in newsletters bearing Ron Paul's name and written in the first person as if they were from Ron Paul. Ron Paul never read them. Ten years ago, when confronted with some of the crazy stuff (I'm trying really hard not to use "crazy s**t" here), Ron Paul says he wrote them, but they must be taken in their whole context to understand them. Fast forward to the present and Ron Paul never wrote them, does not know who wrote them, cannot recall the names of anyone who worked for him who might have written them, is shocked to learn he made big money off them, and people think this guy has the qualifications to be President of the United States? Letting someone write bat crap crazy stuff under your name, not knowing who they are or what they are doing, profiting from them, then taking responsibility before denying responsibility is credible?! If we're to take Ron Paul at his word, maybe we need to get him an Alzheimer's test. he is old. Hell, if pigs did fly and he did get elected President, he'd be 81 at the end of his first term." Eric may normally be wrong about, well, everything, but he sure nails this perfectly (1537 comments) Comments >> MSNBC Becomes Apologist for Mitt Romney's Klan Quotes
Right-wing lunacy has won again! MSNBC yesterday forced itself to apologize for telling the truth about Mitt Romney's rhetorical ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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