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want teachers to know The Face behind the mask WEA smear campaign ignores the truth Labor day marks irony for teachers, workers Judge rewards WEA, punishes voters The new unionism: more business as usual Why a shortage of whistleblowers? The WEA's Oliver Stone Complex How do you spell paranoia? N-E-A Public Records Belong to Everyone WEA-PAC Donations Drying Up Lessons from the Front-line of Campaign Finance Reform
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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..." |
