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.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
2011 Legislative Session
Days 78 and 79 - The grind has officially come to a standstill. There's a whole lot of nothing happening right now. It sounds like everyone is waiting for the General Budget to be made public later this week. I've got an interesting State Government and Tribal Affairs hearing Thursday morning ... Not sure how the bills scheduled for hearing are necessary to implement the budget, but we'll see. There are only 28 days left in the regular session and for the first time I can remember, there isn't a clear path to getting out of here.
Rep. Ross and I are still working on some issues and looking for opportunities to get our message out to the public. The Democrat Majority's budget should be very interesting and should, once again, provide a clear picture between their priorities and ours.
#budget #SGTA #Committee #regular #session #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Rep. Ross and I are still working on some issues and looking for opportunities to get our message out to the public. The Democrat Majority's budget should be very interesting and should, once again, provide a clear picture between their priorities and ours.
#budget #SGTA #Committee #regular #session #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
http://chum.ly/n/7c9b2b
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