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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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
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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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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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Re-posted Message
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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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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Sunday, September 4, 2011
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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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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Thursday, September 1, 2011
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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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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