December 28, 2011

With the Christmas holiday finally in the rear-view mirror, it's time to focus on the road ahead for 2012. Boy oh boy, where to begin? Robert and I are working hard to get an arena secured in order to put on a practice series for calf roping, team roping, break away, and barrel racing. We think we have one secured, but need to get it finalized as soon as possible. This could be a really great opportunity to showcase our cattle with the local ropers.

We had our first 2011-12 calf last week. A really nice little bull calf that's doing really well. We should start seeing new calves daily sometime next week. I'm really looking forward to it. We've got our 2 and half year old stud colt (soon to be a gelding) over with Tim Kunka right now. Tim's been doing a great job with Buck. If you have any horse training needs, check out timkunkatraining.com.

Only about 9 days left until I head back over to Olympia for the 2012 Regular Session. After 3 years over there, I've learned that keeping a positive attitude can be very difficult. Fortunately, I've got some really great friends who (attempt to) keep me grounded and focused. If you don't know Charles Ross, you should! He's got the quickest (and sometimes harshest) one-liners around, like an old school gun fighter with words.

Matt Shea is another guy worth meeting. When it comes to Constitutional law and principles there's no one better, but he's also a guy you can trust to always have your back. Then there's Jason Overstreet (aka The Rooster) ... wow, where to begin? Jason is someone you simply must meet. Very principled, very conservative and not afraid to give his opinion to anyone. Jason is someone who always reminds me why we do what we do.

Now I've know Joel Kretz for a few years and can tell you stories ... wow. Joel is probably the only person in Olympia who knows exactly how to "communicate" with me and it usually involves him telling me to calm down about whatever it is that has me all wrapped around the axle. He's a great friend.

Finally, Richard DeBolt, our leader and Grand Poobah, is probably the toughest person to describe to anyone who doesn't know him. Rich has a great sense of humor and is one of the smartest people I know. When I met Rich for the first time he reminded me of Adam Sandler ... enough said.

I rely on the guys a lot in Olympia and trust them implicitly. I know I don't thank them enough for all they do and I hope they know I would go to war with them any day.

#Christmas #roping #calves #Tim #Kunka #Ross #Shea #Overstreet #Kretz #DeBolt #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District




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December 28, 2011

With the Christmas holiday finally in the rear-view mirror, it's time to focus on the road ahead for 2012. Boy oh boy, where to begin? Robert and I are working hard to get an arena secured in order to put on a practice series for calf roping, team roping, break away, and barrel racing. We think we have one secured, but need to get it finalized as soon as possible. This could be a really great opportunity to showcase our cattle with the local ropers.

We had our first 2011-12 calf last week. A really nice little bull calf that's doing really well. We should start seeing new calves daily sometime next week. I'm really looking forward to it. We've got our 2 and half year old stud colt (soon to be a gelding) over with Tim Kunka right now. Tim's been doing a great job with Buck. If you have any horse training needs, check out timkunkatraining.com.

Only about 9 days left until I head back over to Olympia for the 2012 Regular Session. After 3 years over there, I've learned that keeping a positive attitude can be very difficult. Fortunately, I've got some really great friends who (attempt to) keep me grounded and focused. If you don't know Charles Ross, you should! He's got the quickest (and sometimes harshest) one-liners around, like an old school gun fighter with words.

Matt Shea is another guy worth meeting. When it comes to Constitutional law and principles there's no one better, but he's also a guy you can trust to always have your back. Then there's Jason Overstreet (aka The Rooster) ... wow, where to begin? Jason is someone you simply must meet. Very principled, very conservative and not afraid to give his opinion to anyone. Jason is someone who always reminds me why we do what we do.

Now I've know Joel Kretz for a few years and can tell you stories ... wow. Joel is probably the only person in Olympia who knows exactly how to "communicate" with me and it usually involves him telling me to calm down about whatever it is that has me all wrapped around the axle. He's a great friend.

Finally, Richard DeBolt, our leader and Grand Poobah, is probably the toughest person to describe to anyone who doesn't know him. Rich has a great sense of humor and is one of the smartest people I know. When I met Rich for the first time he reminded me of Adam Sandler ... enough said.

I rely on the guys a lot in Olympia and trust them implicitly. I know I don't thank them enough for all they do and I hope they know I would go to war with them any day.

#Christmas #roping #calves #Tim #Kunka #Ross #Shea #Overstreet #Kretz #DeBolt #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District




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December 22, 2011

Two weeks from tomorrow, I head back to Olympia for the 2012 Regular Session. From what we're hearing, the $500 million sales tax increase may still be sitting on the horizon and there may be a proposed $1.0 billion property tax increase. Remember what Albert Einstein said? "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." It would appear the Democrat Majority doesn't remember?

The rest of the week will be fairly slow going, which I'm thankful for. We still need to mend a fence the US Army won't fix and may get that done Friday or Saturday. Otherwise, it's feeding cattle and horses and relaxing just a little bit. We're headed to Ellensburg on Sunday for Christmas with my family and then I'm taking Brock home on Monday. I've got a couple of meeting in Olympia on Tuesday and then back to Moxee for the remainder of the year.

The weather finally cleared up and now it's just cold. The yearlings are doing fantastic and having some great horn growth right now. We ended up separating the calf pen into three separate pens to keep the smallest ones healthy ... best thing we've done for far this winter. This years filly is getting really big. She's got great confirmation, now we just need her to finish coloring out.

Headed to town in a bit to pick up pigs at the butcher, go to the bank, get propane, and finish Christmas shopping. I'm pretty proud of myself for getting my shopping done before the 24th.

Merry Christmas everyone.

#Olympia #Regular #Session #taxes #cattle #filly #US #Army #Christmas #butcher #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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Lawmakers make plea for state park rangers | The Columbian: www.columbian.com/news/2011/dec/22/lawmakers-make-...ngers

Maybe it's time to reform the way State Parks operate. According to the Governor's priorities of government list, the State Parks and Recreation Commission spends $13.6 million on Park Maintenance, $112.0 million on Park Operations and $3.3 million for Park acquisitions, planning and development ... that's a total of $128.9 million. How about we quite acquiring new parks and take care of the ones we already have ($3.3 million saved)? How about we roll maintenance into operations like most businesses do ($13.6 million saved)?

#State #Parks #operation #maintenance #acquisitions #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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December 20, 2011

Wait, what's the glowing orb in the sky? Holy cow, it's the sun!
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December 20, 2011

The 2nd Special Session of 2011 ended last Wednesday with a thud. It's amazing that with 2 months notice (the Governor announce on September 22nd that she'd be calling us back to Special Session) and almost three weeks in Olympia more couldn't be done. Frustrating!

Things have been plenty busy at home. We've had a nasty inversion for the past few weeks that's keeping temperatures cold and damp. The cattle seem to be doing fine, but we're watching the yearlings closely for any sickness. We've had to doctor a couple over the past few days, but so far things are going well.

Christmas is just around the corner and I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. 2011 was a good year, but let's all hope 2012 is a great one. God Bless.

#Special #Session #cattle #inversion #weather #Christmas #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Special session utter failure...says Lower Valley lawmaker - Daily Sun News - Sunnyside, Washington: www.dailysunnews.com/DSNNews1.shtml

One minor misquote, but otherwise right one with what I said. The misquote is at the very end of the article, I was discussing Natural Resource Agencies not the Department of Natural Resources.

#Sunnyside #Daily #Sun #News #Rep #David #Taylor #Special #Session #failure #15th #District
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East Valley Marine recounts horrors of Afghan war | Yakima Herald-Republic: www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/12/15/east-vall...n-war

God Bless the United States Marine Corps!

#USMC #Afgan #war #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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A nice article from last week's Tele-Townhall

Daily Sun News - Sunnyside, Washington: www.dailysunnews.com/archives/Story.aspx/22870/edu...eting

#Rep #David #Taylor #Sunnyside #Daily #15th #District
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Good news for the Columbia Gorge

www.insitu.com/index.cfm?navid=298&cid=5949

Exciting news for all our friends in the gorge.

#Insitu #Columbia #Gorge #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 17

Sitting on the House floor debating the creation of a new program that will cost $700,000 in new money, subject to appropriation. Good thing the Legislature passed a terrible excuse for a budget cut last night, only to create a new program with no money to fund it. Yet another opportunity to vote NO.

It sounds like the Special Session could come to an end sometime today or tonight. Depending on the time the circus ends, I could be headed home tonight.

#Budget #cut #special #session #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session

There wasn't a lot to report from yesterday. Mostly meetings and an opportunity to vote NO on another bill. It looks like we'll be debating the Supplemental Budget tonight, along with 3 other bills that are "necessary" to implement the budget. While the news will report the budget is a $480 million decrease, the fact is the budget only has $226 million in actual cuts, several fund transfers and use of some one-time money from the federal government. Two plus weeks in Olympia and we have this to show the taxpayers of Washington? Seriously, we need to be doing much, much more ... The taxpayers deserve better.

#Supplemental #budget #$480 #million #failure #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 14

Back in Olympia ... let the fun begin! Filled the rig with old CDs for the drive ... a little LeDoux and Garth. Sure made the drive a lot better. Time to Cowboy Up and Git er Dun!

#Olympia #Garth #Brooks #Chris #LeDoux #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 11

Last day in Olympia until Sunday. We finally got next week's schedule ... Plan on being in Olympia Monday through Saturday. I guess the wasn't time this week to get ANYTHING done. Oh well.

Tele-Townhall tonight at 6:30 PM. Call in at 877-229-8493 and PIN 15540.

#Olympia #tele-townhall #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Wolves

Okay friends, here's a good read. chumly.com/attachment/5201014
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 10

Just finished a two hour brainstorming session with Rep Shelly Short, Rep Matt Seha and Rep Jason Overstreet. I think we came up with some really great ideas, but, more importantly, we were able to bounce all ideas off each other. I'm trying to get my office set up now, but Steph is out sick and she won't let me decorate my office without her direct input. :-)

Got a call this morning and now have a new project to work on. The Departmet of Ecology has released their new Fish Consumption Rates, Technical Support Document. Another opportunity to give DOE a hard time ... This should be fun.

I worked through the Governor's Priorities of Government for Natural Resource Agencies today and am amazed to see how much redundancy is built into those budgets. Time to start cutting or reprioritizing their budgets.

#Priorities #of #Government #Ecology #fish #consumption #rates #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 9

After spending yesterday afternoon working on the House Republican Caucus's Priorities of Government, I've spent this morning looking through several agencies prioritized lists. The information is amazingly enlightening and sheds a lot of light as to why the government opperates the way it does. For example, the first priority listed under the Department of Ecology is "reduce health and environmental threats from motor vehicle emissions." Seriously, THAT'S a priority of the DOE?

#Ecology #DOE #emissions #environmental #threats #HRC #POG #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 8

Another fun-tactic day in Olympia. We actually took our first vote today or, as I like to say, I had my first opportunity to vote no this special session. We've actually be caucusing most of the day and have started through our own Priorities of Government excercise. I'm really happy we're going through the process to identify what core services should be provided by the state.

#Olympia #Priorities #of #Government #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Session Day 5 and 6

I was able to get thing done fairly early on Saturday, so I ran down to Mossyrock to Tim Kunka's horse training facility to do a little ranch sorting, check our cattle and see how our two young horses are doing. I was not disappointed ... the cattle look really good, the horses seem to be coming along and the ranch sorting was a lot of fun. A couple of really nice ladies let me ride their horses for the sorting. The first one was a little soft mouthed, which made things interesting and when I set my spurs to the little mare started to hump up and buck a bit. I just kept her sorting until she worked through her little spasm. The second horse never bucked, but it was obvious she didn't appreciate my style either. One of the ladies said, "you ride more aggressive then I do. I've never seen her buck like that before." Man I needed that after a week in Olympia.

I got a call Saturday night from Jack Fields (Washington Cattlemen's Association Executive VP) to tell me the Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted an amended Wolf Management and Conservation Plan. Needless to say I was disappointed to hear that, especially after several Legislators sent the Commission a letter asking them to delay consideration until after the USFWS completes their status review. We also asked the Commission to tell the Legislature what they were going to cut in order to implement the plan.

I went to Fred Meyers this morning and the checker showed me a picture of a wolf someone she knows killed in Idaho this year. I guess the cowboy hat was her cue to show me. :-) I ended up talking to her and 3 other people about wolves in Washington. It's amazing more people don't know how many wolves are all ready here! Time to educate the masses.

I'm doing some laundry this morning and researching options to address the Wolf Plan. Interestingly, the Department of Fish and Wildlife has removed a required link to Wolf Reports from their website. Time to rattle some cages. I've also been looking into the depth of Agenda 21 infiltration in State Government. It's not pretty. For an example check out www.ecy.wa.gov/sustainability/index.html.

#Agenda #21 #Wolf #Plan #ranch #sorting #Tim #Kunka #horse #training #WCA #Commission #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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Attention Freedom Lovers - Agenda 21

range-wi12-agenda_21.pdf (application/pdf Object):: www.rangemagazine.com/features/winter-12/range-wi1...1.pdf

Here's another good read. Actually, go to Range Magazine on the web ... lot's of good information.

#Agenda #21 #Range #Magazine #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Attention Property Right Supporters - Good Read

range-wi12-our_federal_landlord.pdf (application/pdf Object):: www.rangemagazine.com/specialreports/range-wi12-ou...d.pdf

I hate being right, but I told you so!

#federal #landlord #property #rights #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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WA Wolf Plan

Yakima Herald-Republic:: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WA_MANAGING_WOLVES...FAULT

This is not good news at all. The plan and the EIS failed to consider the economic impacts associated with wolves, failed to properly address public health concerns and the Commission failed to coordinate with local governmental entities. Looks like it's time for new legislation.

#Fish #Wildlife #Commission #EIS #economic #health #impacts #legislation #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 5

I really don't know where to begin today's post. Hmm, let's see ... we still haven't done a dang thing in Olympia. Today was filled with committee meetings, but no votes were taken for the 5th straight day. We did get to start moving into our new offices and they are really nice. My office window looks directly onto the Capital Dome ... sweet!

Next week looks to be as exciting as this week was. Floor action on Monday and (as of right now) nothing but committee meetings the rest of the week. {sigh}

Bruce and I are doing a tele-townhall on Thursday, which is a great way to hear from constituents back home.

We're waiting to see what the Fish and Wildlife Commission does with the draft Wolf Management Plan. Several of us sent a letter to the Commission asking them to table the decision until after the US Fish and Wildlife Service completes their assessment in February. Hopefully they'll table it, but if they don't we'll begin looking at ways to stop the plans implementation. Folks, Washington State cannot support 15 breeding pairs of wolves. Not good!

Have a good weekend!

#Olympia #special #session #fish #wildlife #commission #wolf #management #plan #USFWS #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session

Yet another fun-tastic day in Olympia. We still haven't taken a single vote yet, but tomorrow is another day. I'm sitting in the General Government Appropriations Committee right now hearing about how bad the implementation of the Discovery Pass really has been. Gee, is it to soon to say "we told you so"? The projected revenue was $64 million and now there's a projected revenue shortfall of $24 million. Huh, did someone forget to ask the public if they liked the idea in the first place ... guess not.

The 2011 National Final Rodeo kicks off tonight and some of us are getting together to watch it. Yeehaw!

Tomorrow is another day of committee meetings and it looks like I'll hit Mossyrock on Saturday for a little ranch sorting at Tim Kunka's place. Looking forward to it.

#Olympia #committee #budget #shortfall #Discover #Pass #NFR #ranch #sorting #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 3

Aother day and another day of nothing. It feels like we never left this place. Mostly just sitting around waiting for the Democrat Majority to do something. I had my first committee meeting today and learned all the things the state is doing for economic development. Interestingly, no one actually discussed all the roadblocks the state has created which hurt economic development.

I'm really looking forward to the National Finals Rodeo kicking off tomorrow night. Hopefully someplace in Olympia will actually broadcast it.

Back home, we've been waiting for the Army to fix their fence. I got word yesterday that they are finally getting it done ... Yeah! As soon as it's fixed the rest of the cows get to come home.

#national #finals #rodeo #fence #cattle #Olympia #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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The Circus

Capitol protests take a big toll - Legislature - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington news, weather and sports:: www.theolympian.com/2011/11/29/1895458/capitol-pro....html

Someone finally started adding up the cost to the taxpayers of Washington.

#Olympian #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 2

Somethings never change. Day 2 in Olympia and we still haven't done a darn thing. Today we spent the entire day waiting for the Democrat Majority to decide what they want to do, then suddenly Speaker Chopp graveled the days session to a close until tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10:00 AM. Tomorrow I have my first Committee meeting of the Special Session, followed by one on Thursday and 3 on Friday. It's going to be a long couple of days.

#Special #Session #Olympia #committee #meeting #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 2nd Special Legislative Session Day 1

Protests shut down budget hearing | Yakima Herald-Republic:: www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/11/28/protests-...aring

Just another day in Olympia. I'm still waiting for the protest to protest the protest.

#protests #budget #tax #Olympia #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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November 27, 2011

Sitting in Olympia on a Sunday night waiting for Special Session to start tomorrow. At least the cattle are doing great. My "normal life" ends today until who know's when. Blah ........

#Olympia #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District #special #session
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November 16, 2011

Oh the fun of White Pass in a snow storm.


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Proposed LEA Cuts in the News

Wapato School District pleads with lawmakers not to cut funding - NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |: www.kndu.com/story/16039719/wapato-school-district...nding

Except for reporting that Rep. Bruce Chandler and I are on the State Education Committee, not a bed job reporting on the issue.

I'm headed over to Olympia today to attend tomorrow's last Tribal Retrocession meeting.

#LEA #Levy #Equalization #Wapato #KNDO #KNDU #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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November 12, 2011

Well the winter storm warning for the Cascades was right on the money. We had a little trouble getting a load of cattle and a horse over White Pass night and had to drive up there at about 9:00 PM to get the rig of the hill. Fun times had by all. Thankfully everyone and everything got home just fine. I finally got home around 12:30 AM.

Back to building fence today.

#Cascades #winter #storm #cattle #horse #White #Pass #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #Distrit
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November 11, 2011

On this Veteran's Day, let's all give thanks to those men and women who protected this country from oppression and tyranny. Remember all our veterans gave some and some gave all. Please say a prayer for our service men and women overseas protecting our freedom today and let us not forget freedom is never free.

We had a busy week. I picked up a load of cattle in Tenino on Tuesday, stopped at Tim Kunka's Tuesday night, sorted a few more cattle to finish the load at Tim's Wednesday morning and got back to Moxee Wednesday afternoon. I spent the day in Goldendale yesterday with Rep. Chandler and Senator Honeyford visiting with the Goldendale School District, Chamber and a few folks from the Conservation District. We also taped a radio program for KLCK.

Emily headed over to Mossyrock with two horses to leave with Tim. I know I've said it before, but if you need a horse trained you need to contact Tim Kunka at timkunkatraining.com. Emily's going to pick up the last load of cattle and a horse Tim's had since August.

Robert and I are headed out to work on fence and we'll be hauling a few cows home this weekend. Only two weeks until Special Session and there's a lot to be done.

#Vereran's #Day #Tenino #Mossyrock #Special #Session #Tim #Kunka #Goldendale #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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November 1, 2011

There are only 26 days until Special Session and we have about 90 days worth of work to do. We've been busy getting fence built, cattle hauled and finally got all the hay done for the year. We've even managed to get a little duck hunting in as well. The picture is from the other day and if you look close enough you will see there are two dogs in the picture. The pups are doing great, especially only being 6 months old.

It sounds like the House Democrats are going to try and put a tax increase to the voters through a Referendum in February or March. We still don't have a lot of details on what it will contain, but there's a possibility that it could be a 1.5 cent increase in sales tax. Not good news for the taxpayers of Washington. Did you know that Washington State is still receiving more revenue in this biennium than it did in the last? As crazy as it sounds, had the Democrat majority not increased spending by approximately $4.0 billion for the 2011-13 biennium, we wouldn't be facing a budget crisis. Now the Governor and Democrat majority want to make the budget deficit political and have proposed cuts that will harm rural Washington more urban Washington.

The next couple of weeks will be busy ones, with several meetings and one more trip to Olympia before Special Session. Next week I'll be in Goldendale on Thursday to meet with the Chamber, meeting with Wapato School District on the 14th, off to Olympia on the 16th for a Tribal Retrocession meeting, and an assortment of other meetings here in town in between.

Off to build fence, fill water, dig a ditch to run power out to the pens, and run to town for some truck parts. Have a great day everyone.


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November 1, 2011

There are only 26 days until Special Session and we have about 90 days worth of work to do. We've been busy getting fence built, cattle hauled and finally got all the hay done for the year. We've even managed to get a little duck hunting in as well. The picture is from the other day and if you look close enough you will see there are two dogs in the picture. The pups are doing great, especially only being 6 months old.

It sounds like the House Democrats are going to try and put a tax increase to the voters through a Referendum in February or March. We still don't have a lot of details on what it will contain, but there's a possibility that it could be a 1.5 cent increase in sales tax. Not good news for the taxpayers of Washington. Did you know that Washington State is still receiving more revenue in this biennium than it did in the last? As crazy as it sounds, had the Democrat majority not increased spending by approximately $4.0 billion for the 2011-13 biennium, we wouldn't be facing a budget crisis. Now the Governor and Democrat majority want to make the budget deficit political and have proposed cuts that will harm rural Washington more urban Washington.

The next couple of weeks will be busy ones, with several meetings and one more trip to Olympia before Special Session. Next week I'll be in Goldendale on Thursday to meet with the Chamber, meeting with Wapato School District on the 14th, off to Olympia on the 16th for a Tribal Retrocession meeting, and an assortment of other meetings here in town in between.

Off to build fence, fill water, dig a ditch to run power out to the pens, and run to town for some truck parts. Have a great day everyone.
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October 23, 2011

So far the weather has been holding and it looks like we may actually get our wet hay up without much further delay. It has been an incredible frustrating fall, but we'll make it through it. We spent most of last week building fence around our winter pasture. It's been slow going ... tearing out the old fence and putting in 5 new wires, but we're getting there.

We had a great opening weekend of duck season and the pups did a great job. This weekend ... not a single duck in the area. The irrigation canals were drained this week and I suspect the ducks are feeding in those instead of the ponds. The pups had a rough morning yesterday ... it's tough keeping two 5-1/2 old pups focused when they get bored from no ducks to retrieve.

I had the opportunity to speak at the Perry Tech graduation last week for the Electrical Technology and Instrumentation classes. What a great honor. I also got to tour the new Welding Lab area at Perry Tech ... very, very nice facility.

This week I'm headed over to Olympia on Thursday for a Caucus Retreat on Friday. I'll get to go to Cabela's too ... hehehehe, time for goodies.

My lovely, kind and extremely supportive wife's birthday is tomorrow ... she's turning 29 again! Make sure a wish her a Happy Birthday.

It's time to head out, fill water troughs and keep building fence. Have a great day and week everyone.

#fence #ducks #Perry #Tech #Cabela's #hay #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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October 17, 2011

Duck season opened this weekend with a bang ... dang, I'm funny. At a little over 5 months old Ruger did better than I could have hoped. Blind retrieves, open water retrieves and open field retrieves and he sat quietly in the blind without trouble. His best retrieve came yesterday. We were packed up and sitting by the trucks with a small group of ducks landed back by the blind. We jumped them and put one down, but it landed about 150 yards away and across the canal ... YIKES! We had it marked, so we drove over and started looking for it. It was an open field next to a thick creek bottom and after about 10 minutes of not finding the duck Ruger started getting "birdy" and suddenly found the bird. What a great weekend with the pup.

We've had a busy couple of weeks. Rain, rain and more rain, not good with hat down. We finally got two fields dry enough to bale ... it's not perfect, but the cows will eat it. We'll be working on fence all week and will start hauling cows home next weekend. I still can't believe it's almost November ... where did the year go?

I attended the third Tribal Retrocession Work Group Meeting last week in Olympia. The topic, Criminal Retrocession. I still have a lot of questions and concerns about the state retroceeding criminal jurisdiction to the FBI, BIA and tribes.

I'll be speaking at Perry Tech's graduation this week and will be at the Sunnyside Republican Clubs meeting Friday morning. We've got a lot to do before the November 28th Special Session, but we'll get there.

#Ruger #ducks #rain #hay #bale #tribal #retrocession #FBI #BIA #Perry #Tech #Special #Session #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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October 4, 2011

Rain, rain go away and don't come back until my hay is done! Ugh, the weather is not cooperating and neither is the equipment. We bought a "new" used rake and are already having problems with it. Not good news with the rain we're getting. We still have about 40 acres down with another 20 still to cut. Stupid weather!

Molly and I went to Spokane Valley last weekend where I spoke at a private property rights seminar. The program focused on shoreline and critical area regulations and was really well done. A portion covered the science, another covered the legal issues and I covered policies and politics. The folks who attended asked great questions and are really well informed.

We've got a small load of heifers coming in this weekend and will be sending a load of fresh roping steers to the westside later this month. We've got about 50 acres we need to get fenced before winter gets here, but that should go fairly easily assuming we don't run into new and exciting problems. :-)

Waterfowl season is less then 2 weeks away and I can't wait to get Ruger out for the first time. He's still a little young for "big" water, but he's doing great and ready for short, shallow water hunts. Last night I worked him with a couple of scented dummies, hidden in thick grass. We walked around the pasture and when he caught scent, he quartered ground until he found the dummy. It was really cool to watch.

I only have a couple of meetings this week, bu next week is going to be a busy one. I have to go over to Olympia at least one day (maybe two) and have meetings the rest of the week. The Governor recently sent out an email letting the Legislature know she thinks we'll be looking at a $2 million budget problem in November, instead of the $1.3 billion announced a couple of weeks ago. Is waiting until November 28th for a Special Session worth an addition $700 million in deficits? I sure don't think so.

#budget #deficit #2 #million #special #session #waterfowl #hay #rain #CAPR #property #rights #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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September 24, 2011

I went over to Olympia on Thursday to deliver beef to two customers, spent the night and went to my State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee meeting Friday morning. I gambled on whether the Hwy 12 construction would be going on Friday afternoon and lost ... 4+ hours to drive from Olympia to Moxee, yikes.

Yesterday, the Columbian Newspaper ran an article (www.columbian.com/news/2011/sep/22/special-session...pport) regarding the budget deficit and November 28th Special Session. According to the article Rep. Tim Probst (D-Vancouver) noted "that over the past four years, the Legislature has cut the size of state government to 1988 levels." Come on Rep. Probst, 1988 levels? Really? The 1987-89 biennial operating budget was $10.176 billion and the 2011-2013 biennial operating budget is approximately $32 billion. There is simply no way WA State could initiate budget cuts to 1988 levels. Heck, I doubt we could even make 1998 budget levels.

#SGTA #Commitee #Budget #Columbian #Special #Session #Hwy #12 #State #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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September 22, 2011

So I'm sitting here in Olympia watching a replay of the GOP Presidential Candidate debate. Sorry all, but Santorum maybe the only one that understands foreign policy. Can we take this best parts of each of the candidates and create a single candidate? Okay, okay ... it remains ABO!
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September 22, 2011

We learned this morning that the Governor will call a Special Session of the Legislature, likely starting at the end of November. Last weeks revenue forecast projected a $1.3 billion budget deficit, after only 3 months into the 2011-13 biennial budget. If the state spends approximately $40 million a day, which is does, how much bigger will the deficit be at the end of November? Another $1.3 billion? $1.8 billion? $2.4 billion?

Folks email, call or write the Governor and tell her now if the time to start addressing the budget shortfall and waiting until November is simply irresponsible. If not now, when? If not us, who?

#Governor #Special #Session #Legislature #WA #November #$40 #million #$1.3 #billion #deficit #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Sorry all for the re-posted message. I had a broken link that I finally was able to correct.
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September 13, 2011

[Resent id=12542195 2011-09-13 15:51:39 from davidtaylor] Well it's been a busy few days. Tiffany's volleyball season is in full swing and we spent roughly 9 hours in the gym in a hot, muggy gym on Saturday. The girls played good, but got pretty tired after a full day of games. On Sunday Nick Clark and I loaded out 7 tons of hay, while Robert went to Enumclaw to pick up cattle, then to Mossyrock to drop off cattle and then back to East Valley. Now I have a fairly full week of meetings, capped by the Joint Executive-Legislative Task Force on Tribal Retrocession on Friday in Toppenish.

I've been watching the Monastery Complex Fire outside Goldendale now for about a week. According to reports, the fire has burned about 4,250 acres with 50% containment, but don't expect to contain the fire until September 21st. There were quite a few homes destroyed so far and there's a chance a few more may be lost depending on what happens with the fire. Let's keep these folks in our prayers.

My truck still isn't working ... ugh! Ok, so we replaced the flywheel and got the transmission back aligned with the engine. Everything works fine, until we start to tighten the bolts attaching the transmission to the engine and then it binds up. I've got no idea what the problem could be, but I did get a few ideas from our friends at Carey Motors to try. We'll see what happens ... I just want my truck back.

Sunday marked the 10th anniversary of 9-11-01. Let us never forget those who gave all protecting the innocent victims. Good bless our first responders who keep us safe and our troops protecting this great country.

#9-11 #Monastery #Complex #Goldendale #Carey #Motors #volleyball #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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September 4, 2011

Labor Day weekend is here and the work continues ... {sigh}. On Friday we finally got the flywheel out of my truck and then searched high and low for a new one. We were finally able to get one shipped overnight (thanks Carquest) and I got it picked up yesterday morning. We spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon in Grandview watching Tiffany play volleyball. It was a little after 3:00 when we finally got home and I was able to get a few things done before watching Boise State completely school Georgia.

I'm getting ready to climb back under the truck this morning to start putting the flywheel back in, pull the transmission back into place and start bolting everything back together. We also need to finish putting the hay rake back together in order to get two of our custom fields ready to bale AND we still have some minor maintenance to do on the tractor (stupid wear washer) before we can begin baling.

Molly's headed up to the Ellensburg Rodeo tomorrow to hang out with "her girls", but I'm staying home. It sounds like this year's rodeo is going really well and the weather is just about perfect for it.

#Carquest #flywheel #volleyball #Ellensburg #Rodeo #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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September 1, 2011

Where did the summer go? Seriously, it seems like I just returned home from a very, very long Legislative Session (ok, it was long ... 135 days long). We officially started 3rd cutting of hay this week for two of our "custom" customers. Our hay fields look to be a couple of weeks out, but we'll see. I'm thankful for mild weather this week and hope to get a lot done before the weekend.

Since school started on Monday, I decided it was time to get back into shape and started exercising again. I kept telling myself "round" is a shape, but the guy in the mirror didn't buy it.

I was reminded yesterday of yet another fee increase passed by the Democrat Majority last session. I stopped in and bought my Hunting License yesterday, which saved me from the increased fees that begin today. Sorry all you hunters, but if you haven't purchased your hunting license for 2011 yet it's going to cost you more.

The next couple of months look to be fairly busy for me. I have several committee meetings in Olympia and several meetings with constituents and constituent groups leading up to the committee meetings. Over the past couple of days I've received a bunch of information on tribal retrocession, which will keep me busy for a few days. I'm also participating in a property rights seminar in Spokane on October 1st related to critical areas and shoreline management. If you want more information on the meeting, let me know.

We're headed to Mossyrock this weekend to take a couple of horses to Tim Kunka for training. Tim does a great job and I would recommend him to anyone. We're taking a few calves too ... Tim's been holding Ranch Sorting events Thursday nights at his place. Visit timkunkatraining.com for more information.

#hunting #fees #hay #Olympia #critical #areas #shorelines #retrocession #horse #training #Mossyrock #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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August 24, 2011

Good news here, Ruger (our Black Lab pup) is finally getting over is bout with Parvo. I worked him with three tennis balls the other night for blind retrieving and he did spectacular. Time to get him back on the pheasant scent and tracking birds through brush. I'm pretty anxious to get him working some real birds this fall.

Playing Mr. Mom (or taxi cab driver) all week. Today is the last day of volleyball "two-a-days" for Tiffany ... nothing like an 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM practice to totally interfere with getting things done during the day. Seems like every time I get something started it's time to leave the house again. I've been taking Tessa to soccer practice too, so add that in as well. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday ... 8:00 AM drop off Tiffany, 9:00 AM drop off Tessa, 10:00 AM Pick up Tiffany, 11:00 AM pick up Tessa, 3:00 PM drop off Tiffany. Down to single practices tomorrow ... can't wait.

It looks like the next couple of months could be fairly busy with constituent meetings, committee meetings and a possible Special Session. Back in July, it was reported the state is down to 6 to 8 weeks of cash left. That, coupled with what could be a terrible September revenue forecast, couple mean a very ugly fall in Washington.

Now is the time to start focusing on real job growth, real economic development and real fiscal sanity. I spoke to a builder yesterday who summed it up quite well. "Want economic development and job growth, get the government out of my way." Amen to that!

#Ruger #volleyball #Tiffany #Tessa #economic #job #growth #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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August 18, 2011

Another busy week comes to an end. I was able to bring Ruger home on Wednesday from the vet and now he's bouncing off the walls, 2nd cutting of hay is done, we're starting maintenance on the equipment for the last cutting, sorting calves, and getting caught up on everything else.

I spoke at the Yakima Republican Women's meeting yesterday about the 2011 session, the interim and plans for 2012. I always enjoy speaking at their luncheon, the ladies always have great questions. I'll be at the Realtor function tonight in Yakima and have a few meetings over the next couple of weeks. It seems like legislative issues are starting to heat up again and rumor is we could be heading back to Olympia in late September or October for another Special Session.

#Ruger #equipment #Olympia #Special #Session #Realtors #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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August 15, 2011

Second cutting of hay is finally in the books ... well, mostly. Everything is baled, but we need to finish picking it up tonight. We sent 16 tons to Prosser yesterday (loaded it and unloaded it), which made for a long day. At least it wasn't to hot.

I've been receiving a lot of inquiries into Coordination recently, which is great. When the people find out how powerful a tool it is to rein in state and federal agencies, everyone become interested in it. There will be another training session in Clarkston on September 18th. Contact trademarkamerica.org for more details.

I've got a lot of things to get caught up on around the house, now that 2nd cutting is done. Hopefully I'll even get some time to ride the horses too.

#hay #Prosser #Coordination #Trademark #America #Clarkston #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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August 9, 2011

So the last few days have been really, really bad. We're trying to get the second cutting of hay done and things just seem to keep breaking down. First, we couldn't get a really thick grass/alfalfa field to dry out, then we couldn't get any dew on a different alfalfa field. Finally things looked good, but the parts we ordered for the rake we're the wrong ones (not our mistake though). We were able to borrow a rake for a day and things looked up again. We got our rake fixed with the right parts, only to have it brake down again ... this time badly. Spent Sunday working on the rake, got the bearings pulled and put into a different piece only to have the part break on the last bearing unit ... ugh! Finally after starting at 1:30 AM this morning, things looked good again. Only have about 13 rows left to bale in the alfalfa field and BOOM, the freaking front axle broke. Yup, broke! So instead of getting a little sleep today, I'll be back working on equipment. {sigh}

Not like things weren't bad enough, Saturday night Ruger's brother Remington (the new pups) was diagnosed with Parvo, so now we're on Parvo watch with all the dogs. Thankfully Remington is already back at home with the Beebe's, but I'm still worried about my little guy ... only time will tell.

The Moxee Hop Festival went really well. There were lot's of people and we had a good time (up until taking the dog to the emergency vet clinic at 7:00 PM Saturday night). I spent an hour in the dunk tank as a fundraiser for Wellness House and it sounds like they made a few hundred dollars over the course of the day.

#Moxee #Hop #Festival #Parvo #tractor #hay #rake #Ruger #Remington #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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August 2, 2011

Alright, so the second cutting of hay is not going well thus far. It started out good enough, but then the replacement tines we ordered came in and were the wrong ones. Luckily we were able to borrow a rake last night, but it's not working out real well for us. We'll try and get it set correctly tonight, but we're now another day behind. Ugh!

Molly and I went to Stephanie and Ryan's wedding on Sunday at Crystal Mountain. For those who don't know, Stephanie is my Legislative Assistant. We had a great time and got to meet Ryan and Stephanie's families. Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Woodard!

The Moxee Hop Festival is this weekend, which is always a good time. I'll be in the dunk tank on Saturday at 1:00 PM. Molly is selling tickets so come on out and dunk your local legislator.

We've been sending out fresh roping calves and getting a few of the bigger ones back. Everything is looking good and we have a couple of bull prospects we're considering keeping into next year.

I just got word the next meeting of the Joint Executive-Legislative Work Group on Tribal Retrocession will be on September 16th at the Yakama Legends Casino in Toppenish. Mark you calendars and plan on attending if you have any interest in tribal civil and criminal retrocession.

#tribal #retrocession #Stephanie #Ryan #Woodard #Moxee #Hop #Festival #Legends #Casino #Toppenish #hay #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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July 25, 2011

What a great weekend. The entire Full Loop family went over to Mossyrock to visit our friend Tim Kunka. Robert and I took three of the kids over Friday afternoon and Molly and Emily came over after work Friday evening. We rode the horses down to the Tilton River and swam them across it. After fishing for a little while, we rode back to the house and sorted cattle until around 10:30. It was really a great way to start the weekend.

On Saturday, we worked the horses and then went back down to the river for most of the day. When we got back we played with the cattle a little while, ate and crashed out. Sunday morning came too soon ... none of the kids wanted to leave. We went back to the river one more time for just a little bit and finally hit the road home around 5:30 PM. We ended up leaving one horse for Tim to work with over the next month.

I woke up this morning to a massive thunder boomer formed over West Valley. So much for cutting hay today, unless the boomer stays in West Valley and the Lower Valley this morning. A great weekend and now back to the grind.

#Tim #Kunka #Tilton #River #Mossyrock #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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July 19, 2011

Another day of crazy weather here in the Moxee Valley ... rain, followed by wind, yuck! Last Saturday I participated in the Sort for a Cure event in Sunnyside. It was my first try at Ranch Sorting, but I had a great time and didn't take last place (actually 11th out of 18 teams). I was going to ride Chili, but she somehow got a cut on her head and it was swelled up. I ended up riding Icicle and she wasn't all that impressed with the other horses or people. She settled in and did just fine the second go though.

We put down 20 acres of hay on Friday and it was about ready to bale, until today's rain that is. The wind is helping out and we were able to get started raking it tonight. It's a little discolored, but I think it'll be alright.

So yesterday was the first meeting of the Joint Executive-Legislative Workgroup on Tribal Retrocession and I found out that I'm either the co-chair or vice-chair (I was called both). That's fairly interesting since I wasn't asked my thoughts on the agenda or schedule for the rest of the year. Oh well. The meeting was actually pretty informative and I've got all sorts of new ideas for legislation.

We're going to go to Mossy Rock this weekend to see our good friend Tim Kunka, ride horses and chase calves. I'm really looking forward to it. Tim trains horses and does a really good job with them. We took him 19 calves a couple of weeks ago, so now he's also holding some sorting events at his place too. If you need a horse trained, Tim is the guy to do it.

#Sort #for #a #Cure #hay #calves #Tribal #Retrocession #Tim #Kunka #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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July 11, 2011

Wow, an interesting few days. Let's see, Brock played in his final Summer Baseball League tournament over the weekend. The kids played well at times, but didn't win any of their games. Brock seemed to enjoy the season, met some great kids and played for a couple of really good coaches.

Molly finally got her chickens on Saturday ... by Sunday 4 had escaped and were running around the yard. Fun times had by all, but we did get 4 farm fresh eggs yesterday. We also got a few pigs on Saturday and a new dog. Looks like I'll be hunting again real soon, with a new Black Lab.

I've been receiving a lot of email from constituents regarding the new Discover Pass. The idea was junk during session, which is why I voted against it, and is junk now that it's being enforced. I would encourage everyone to read through the exemptions before buying one ... you might not need to. Interestingly, the law has been in place 11 days and now we're hearing "we might need to make some changes to it". Seriously?!?!?!? Yet another example of passing a law in order to do "something" and fixing it later. Ladies and Gentlemen, you can't fix stupid.

#Black #Lab #pigs #chickens #farm #fresh #eggs #Discover #Pass #Rep #15th #District #David #Taylor
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June 27, 2011

We have about 2 hours worth of hay to finish and we're finally done. I'm hauling a cow/calf pair down to Prosser later this morning after a radio interview with a Spokane station with my good friend Rep. Matt Shea. I had a really nice weekend with the family and got to play some softball in the Shark in the Park tournament in Yakima.

The radio interview dealt with land use, growth management and coordination. I discussed how citizens and local government can take back control from state and federal agencies using Coordination. There's a 10th Amendment/Coordination workshop in Seattle on August 12th and 13th. Anyone interested should contact Trademark America (www.trademarkamerica.org) and plan on attending the workshop.

Well off to work for the day.

#Matt #Shea #radio #coordination #growth #management #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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June 23, 2011

After a couple of weeks of playing nonstop catch-up, we finally got caught up! Now we'll try and stay one step ahead ... ha ha ha. We'll see how that goes. Looks like we're going to work cows this weekend and get a bunch shipped to the Sunnyside pasture. We're down to one last hay field to rake and bale, so it'll be time to clean up and do some maintenance on the equipment.

I received word that I was appointed to the Joint Executive-Legislative Workgroup on Tribal Retrocession. Various tribes want the state to pass civil and criminal retrocession legislation, which we argued against last session. It should be an interesting workgroup.

Off to feed the critters, move irrigation and head to town. Have a great day all.

#Sunnyside #cattle #hay #tribal #retrocession #workgroup #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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June 16, 2011

We finally have all the hay baled and started picking it up last night. We baled 1754 bales on Tuesday and Wednesday ... right around 70 tons of hay, so we're off to a good start. I'm looking forward to not having to sit in a tractor for a couple of days. We've got to sort calves later today to send out tomorrow morning to Tenino for roping. We're working with Bret Hale, owner of the Stick Horse Ranch.

Brock had a game in Selah last night and they won. He has a double header on Sunday here in Moxee against Walla Walla.

The Revenue Forecast will be released later today. Any bets on how much lower it's going to be? We've heard all kinds of speculation, but my bet is that it will be $150 million less than originally projected. If it's any higher than that, things could get even more interesting. There is a rumor that Governor Gregoire decided not to seek a third term because the revenue forecast is going to be really bad ... guess we'll see.

#hay #calves #Redhawks #baseball #revenue #forecast #Gregoire #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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June 12, 2011

We're still in the middle of getting the first cutting of hay all done. The rain and my jury duty relly cost us some time last week and this week doesn't appear to be much better. With luck, we'll have most of the hay raked this morning and will finish bailing sometime tomorrow morning.

Brock's here for the summer and played in his first summer baseball games yesterday. He's playing for one the East Valley Redhawks 14U teams this year. He seemed to enjoy it and it'll give him something to do for part of the summer.

Off tothe hay fields ...

#Brock #hay #Redhawks #baseball #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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June 8, 2011

Oh the agony ... why must it rain each and every year during the first cutting of hay? We checked the fields last night and, with the wind and warm temperatures, everything was close to being ready to bail. Now, who knows. This is really going to be a frustrating day!

Tonight the Washington State Redistricting Commission is holding a public meeting to accept comments on the proposed Legislative and Congressional District boundary changes. The meeting is at the Clarion Hotel, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. Based on yesterday's article in the Yakima Herald (see www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2011/06/06/groups-se...ounty) Nd the online comments, tonight's meeting could be interesting.

Well, I'm getting ready to head into town to pick up parts for the rake and tractor. Wish me luck getting everything fixed and, more importantly, that the rain will end soon.

#Redistricting #commission #rain #hay #Yakima #herald #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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June 6, 2011

We started getting hay cut Saturday morning and were able to get about 70 acres done by Sunday night. Unfortunately, like most first cuttings we've had a few minor problems with the swather which cost us a couple fo hours both days with down time. We should be all finished cutting by tonight. Now we need to start getting the baler, rake and small tractor ready to get everything finished. The Special Session really hurt us getting everything ready to go, but we'll get there.

We had a BBQ at Molly's family's house last night for Her brother Peter who's back from Afghanistan. Welcome home Peter and thank you for what you do for our country ... God Bless.

It should be a fairly busy week of still trying to get caught up ... my goal is to finally be caught up in time to go back to Olympia next January. :-) Until the next time ...

#Afghanistan #hay #swather #baler #tractor #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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June 3, 2011

Today is Tiffany's birthday ... 15 years old and ready to take on the world or so she thinks. I hope to help her have a great day. Looks like we'll be cutting hay today and over the weekend. We have about ten good days, before the possibility of rain again. I hope to have Molly's chicken coop done today too, so I can start on all my other projects.

Doing a few follow-ups on some issues now that the session is over. It's time to have a little fun with the agencies. Hehehehe ....

#Tiffany #birthday #agencies #hay #chicken #coop #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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June 2, 2011

Post Session Day 8 - Things are finally getting back to normal. I've been working around the place trying to get caught up, but I'm beginning to think it'll never happen. I spent most of the weekend with Molly, which was a nice change. We actually got quite a bit done around the place and spent time together while doing so. I started building a chicken coop for Molly and we should start cutting hay Friday or Saturday.

I spent 3 hours at East Valley High School on Tuesday speaking to two classes. I really enjoy talking to High School students about government, politics and the future. I'm headed in to the Yakima Herald Editorial Board this morning for a Legislative wrap-up. It should be as interesting as it always is.

#east #valley #high #school #chicken #coop #Yakima #herald #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2011 First Special Legisative Session

You just got to check this out. Our Minority Leader Rep Richard DeBolt absolutely kicked some serious butt with his comments. Enjoy!
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2011 First Special Legislative Session

Day 30 Update 2 - Well we're still here. After a flurry of activity this morning ... passage of 5 bills before lunch ... we're finally back at work debating bill #6 for the day.

It often goes unnoticed, not reported or otherwise outside of the public's eye, but I want everyone to know how hard the House Republican Caucus worked this year. When the other three caucuses were willing to negotiate their various interests away, it was my Caucus that held the line. We stayed united throughout the process, which gave our negotiators the power they needed to negotiate in the best interest of the people of Washington. When none of the other three Caucuses wanted to release a proposed budget to the public, it was my Caucus that proposed a budget that prioritized spending to K-12 education, public health and public safety and didn't rely on onetime funding or budget gimmics to balance. I can't express how proud I am of these folks or how honored I am to be a small part of this team.

We've been on the House Floor almost 22 out of the last 31 hours and we're all getting tired. Never fear, we will fight until the very end.

#HOuse #Republican #Caucus #budget #K-12 #education #public #safety #health #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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