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PRESS RELEASE October 17, 2003 Location of EFF Strike Forum Creates Concern: Location Moved On Wednesday, October 22, at 7:00 p.m., the Evergreen Freedom Foundation will co-host a community forum/debate about the Marysville teacher strike. It will be held in the Ballroom of the Marysville Best Western Tulalip Inn instead of at Marysville Pilchuck High School. Notification we sent this morning listed Pilchuck High School as the Forum location. Apparently, arrangements to use school facilities were not supposed to be scheduled through the duration of the strike, but the person who helped us and accepted our paperwork did not know this. In the interest of not creating unnecessary conflict, we moved the location to the Best Western Inn. (The frustration of our emergency scramble aside, the "Best Western" fits our newspaper ad theme better anyway.) All the other particulars are the same as the previous notice and are repeated below. Representatives from the Marysville Education Association and the Marysville school board have been invited to present their points of view in a debate, with audience questions to follow. Invited speakers/guests include Governor Gary Locke, Attorney General Christine Gregoire, Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson, State Auditor Brian Sonntag, and legislators from the 38th, 39th, and 44th districts. KTTH's Mike Siegel and EFF's Bob Williams will host the event. Whether or not the strike is resolved by October 22, the forum will serve as an opportunity to ask questions of all parties and hopefully provide the community with access to unfiltered, unedited information. A large advertisement for the forum will run Sunday in the Everett Herald. Click here to see a copy of the ad. http://www.effwa.org/pdfs/marysvillead.pdf
Wednesday October 22, 7:00 p.m. Directions: Contact: Jason Mercier | Budget Research Analyst | 360.956.3482
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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..." |
