Less Government, Lower Taxes and More Freedom - 2014 Legislative Session Day 17

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May 30, 2012

Good morning friends. Another beautiful, albeit cloudy, day in the Moxee Valley. The home improvement projects are progressing nicely, with only a few minor bumps along the way. A special thanks to Eric Torres for his advice on fixing some of those"special little gifts” left by the previous owner of our house. I’ve come to realize why they wallpapered an entire wall in the kitchen and living room.

I do need to issue a dire warning for everyone in East Valley ... Tiffany passed her driving test yesterday and will have her drivers license in six days. All kidding aside, I’m so proud of her for really paying attention to our driving lessons and passing her test. Now the real worry of a parent.

Matt Shea, Jason Overstreet and I are looking for a few days to get away in the near future. We’re talking about a fishing trip, but have not decided where to go yet. Joel Kretz is having problems with cougars again, so we might go up and give him a hand dealing with his"problem”. Regardless, a few days with my fellow patriots would do me good.

It’s time to get back to work measuring walls, scraping wallpaper and tearing out flooring. I hope everyone has a great day. God bless.

#Matt #Shea #Jason #Overstreet #Joel #Kretz #Tiffany #driver #license #fishing #cougars #home #improvement #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2012 Regular Legislative Session Day 11 Continued

I can honestly say I witnessed something today that I have never seen before. HB 2225, establishing July 25th as Patient Safety Day, was defeated through a 5-4 vote with two Democrats voting with us against the bill. Absolutely amazing to watch the rest of the Democrats attempt to sway their members to pass the bill. Victory!

Sitting in General Government Appropriations and Oversight now, listening to a presentation from the Columbia Gorge Commission. I am of the opinion the Gorge Commission is an unconstitutional decision making body that should be abolished. It’s time to return all land use decision making authority to the locally elected officials.

I have a 2:30 meeting today with the Republican Caucus of the Environment Committee. Rep. Matt Shea was recently added to the Environment Committee, which adds another pro-property rights member to the Committee. Let the fun begin!

#Matt #Shea #Environment #Committee #HB #2225 #Patient #Safety #Day #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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2012 Regular Legislative Session Days 8 and 9

Today was the first day of the 2012 Legislative Session that we took action on legislation. We voted on a small set of bills from the 2011 session, all of which do nothing to address the budget deficit. I’m sitting in the State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee right now listening to testimony on 6 bills that, once again, do nothing to address the budget deficit. I suppose you could argue that HB 222 does do something to address the budget. This is a bill allowing the state library to recover costs associated with research requests from people who are not residents ... total increase in revenue $45k. Ugh! There’s also a bill designating July 25th as patient safety day ... now this is an important issue for the Legislature.

I have quite a few meetings this week, but am really looking forward to seeing some folks from home. The Realtors will be in town this week and always enjoy seeing them. AWB will also be in town on Tuesday ... yeah, another opportunity to see more folks from the 15th District. I’m going to head back home this weekend to attend the Yakima Association of Realtors Installation Dinner.

So I somehow forgot to post this yesterday, sorry everyone. I woke up this morning to about 8 inches of snow in the driveway ... yikes! It took me 45 minutes to drive to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation to do a radio show with Rep. Matt Shea. I hope folks back in the district were able to hear it. I missed my first committee meeting of the day due to the radio show and trying to drive to the Capital from the EFF recording studio. People in Olympia DO NOT know how to drive in the snow.

I heard yesterday the Senate Ways and Means Committee (budget committee) has cancelled all their hearings for the second week in a row and according to our budget lead, Rep. Gary Alexander, the House Democrats have done nothing in the way of working on a budget thus far. Ugh!

Some breaking news, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution condemning Agenda 21. For more information, go to www.varight.com/news/news/they-did-it-republican-n...ution. This is some great news!

Off to my Labor and Workforce Development Committee meeting.

#RNC #Agenda #21 #snow #Olympia #EFF #radio #show #Matt #Shea #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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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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