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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