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PRESS RELEASE
 February 7, 2003
Contact: Marsha Richards,
Communications Director Govern yourself, log on to WashingtonVotes.org The legislature is in session. Lobbyists are amassed in the state's capitol. Do you know what your elected officials are doing in Olympia? Now you can find out and take part in the action through a new "Electronic TownHall" called WashingtonVotes.org. WashingtonVotes.org is a free, nonpartisan, public service website that allows you to be "in Olympia" while sitting at your office desk or at home with your morning cup of coffee. Here's what WashingtonVotes.org offers:
Our form of government can only work if citizens are informed and involved. It can only work if elected officials are held accountable. That's your job. Be informed. Be active. Log on to WashingtonVotes.org today!
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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question: "Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?" - Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46) Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..." |
