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March 12, 2022
Washington State Legislature 2022 Awards
Friends — The Washington State legislature 2022 short session ended March 10 with no “special session” added. Follow along for our infamous Legislature Awards, and an all-up recap. The 2022…
March 3, 2022
2022 Shit Show
Friends — We passed yet another short-session hurdle: The deadline where all bills have to be through all their opposite-Chamber’s Committees (otherwise known as February Twenty-Eighth—I mean, who does she…
February 24, 2022
Major Bag Alert 💰
Friends — Well, let’s just say, called iiiit. The Senate and House dropped their budget proposals this week, with a wild turn-around time to comment on them, so there is MUCH…
February 18, 2022
The Plot Twist: Budget Provisos
Friends — Picture this: You're watching a reality TV show very similar to Survivor, except the people who slowly get voted off the island are bills, and instead of a…
February 11, 2022
Polling, who needs it? (Everyone. Literally everyone needs it.)
Friends — At the end of the day, legislators ax important bills for a few reasons that center around bad polling: 1️⃣ Our political ecosystem lacks a diversity of voices…
February 4, 2022
No, We Don’t Mean Whipped Cream
Friends — The Whip is the person who counts the votes, and whipping votes looks like leadership deliberately applying pressure on rank and file members so that a member votes…
January 27, 2022
Biennium? Buy any of ‘em!!!
Friends— So on top of everything being bureaucratic, we also have this whole cyclical thing that happens at the legislature. Our state’s budget gets redone in a timeline that’s called…
