Tri-City Herald endorses... who?

For as far apart as the candidates in the 16th Legislative District are on a couple of social issues, they line up fairly closely on many fiscal matters.

They agree the state is broke and our spending is way out of control.

Although Maureen Walsh is liberal enough that her vote in favor of domestic partnerships got her censured by the Franklin County Republicans and she is pro-choice, she considers herself to be a moderate. When it comes to money, Walsh sees herself on the conservative side of the line.

Her opponent, Brenda High, disagrees.

High is ultra-conservative, socially and fiscally, and she is among the 17 Franklin County Republicans who censured Walsh. For this election, however, High is running on the Constitution ticket.

This is High's first run for the Legislature, but she has years of experience in writing and passing laws. High founded Bully Police USA as a response to her son's death in 1998 and has been effective in helping to pass anti-bullying laws in states across the country.

She also has some solid ideas on how to reduce the state's spending, such as home monitoring instead of jail or prison time for low-level criminals...

Read more: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2010/09/22/1178663/16th-legislative-district-maureen.html#ixzz10Iy9uR4z

Comment from Brenda...
When my husband read the Editorial endorsement, he thought it was more of an endorsement for me than for Maureen Walsh. But in the end, because Washington state needs "team players" in Olympia, the endorsement went to Maureen. ...Personally, I think we need to vote some of the bad players (big spending liberals) off the team.

Pat Buchanan Speaks about Rockefeller Republicans

Is the Republican establishment losing it?

Is the party leadership capable of uniting a governing coalition as Richard Nixon did before Watergate and Ronald Reagan resurrected in the 1980s?

Observing the hysteria and nastiness of Karl Rove and the GOP establishment at the stunning triumph of Tea Party Princess Christine O’Donnell, the answer is no.

This party is not ready to rule.

Consider. In its grand strategy to recapture a Senate that George W. Bush and Rove lost in 2006, the GOP Senate leadership endorsed all its own caucus members for re-election, if they chose to run, then picked out all its favorite candidates for the open and Democratic seats.

Conservatives and tea party activists, however, had other ideas. They began to pick their own candidates. And, again and again, the Senate’s chosen were rejected in favor of tea party challengers who had the endorsement of Sarah Palin or South Carolina’s Jim DeMint.

Arlen Specter was rejected by the Pennsylvania GOP and left the party. Rand Paul routed Sen. Mitch McConnell’s man in Kentucky. Charlie Crist was challenged by Marco Rubio in Florida. Crist, too, departed. Sen. Bob Bennett was denied renomination in Utah. Sen. Lisa Murkowski lost her primary in Alaska to a little-known fellow named Joe Miller.

But Delaware was the stunner. Rep. Mike Castle, a former two-term governor who had been winning elections for 40 years, was a certain victor in November.

Challenger O’Donnell, however, ended all that.

To read the rest of the article go to:

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2010/09/16/rockefeller-republicans/

Napoleon and the Gay Samoans

By Sandy Rios - Townhall

”If education were a product we would be suing,” wrote the mother of a 2010 high school graduate. Her e-mail was so eloquent, it warrants no editing:

“Today I asked my son what country Napoleon was from. He said Rome.

He just finished 12 years of public schooling in what has been called one of the top high schools in the nation. Although he’s not a bookworm, he is a decent student. He has better than a B average.

He doesn’t know which country Napoleon was from – let alone what he did. I don’t think he was sick that day.

On the other hand, I’m going through his Social Study papers and see that he did learn that homosexual men in Samoa may perpetuate gay genes by being good uncles…

Twelve years. If education were a product we would be suing.”

To read the whole article go to http://townhall.com/columnists/SandyRios/2010/07/16/napoleon_and_the_gay_samoans

Comment: Parents must be vigilant in fighting the Godless religions being brought into our schools, i.e., homosexual indoctrination, liberal philosophy, progressive politics and humanist propaganda.

Income Tax NOT Needed

Here are a couple of short clips from an article by Paul Guppy, Vice President for Research at Washington Policy Center, an independent non-partisan policy research organization in Washington state. For more information about the Washington Policy Center, visit washingtonpolicy.org.

Jun 16 2010

"This fall Washington voters will likely again be asked to pass a state income tax. Tax proponents want to impose a tax of 5 percent on people with yearly incomes over $200,000 and on couples with incomes over $400,000. The rate would rise to 9 percent at the $500,000 and $1 million levels....

"....a word about fairness. Tax proponents say it is fair to vote for an income tax. Really? Is it fair to ask 97 percent of people to impose a tax on the remaining 3 percent, especially when proponents promise the majority this is a tax they will never have to pay?

"It’s one thing to ask citizens to tax themselves for the common good, as happens with school levies, but the appeal by tax proponents isn’t about fairness — it’s about power. They say, “Let’s use government power to get money from those people.” This is a cynical, mean-spirited appeal to class differences and soak-the-rich envy, seeking to divide our communities along economic lines...."

To read the entire article go to: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/north_sound/mar/opinion/96485924.html

My Comments
Mr Guppy is right on Constitutionally. We The People...doesn't mean just 3 percent of the people will pay for the burdens of a State government. If Washington voters want to vote themselves a state tax, it should be a fair tax for everyone, from the poor with only a "Widow's Mite" to the rich like Bill Gates.

Endorsement from Human Life PAC

From the HUMAN LIFE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
"We are pleased to inform you that you have received the endorsement of Human Life Political Action Committee (PAC)."

My statement on abortion:

The Preamble of the Constitution states a purpose of the Constitution to be to: "…secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".

The unalienable right of Life is secured by our Constitution "to ourselves and our Posterity". Our posterity includes children born and future generations yet unborn. Any legalization of the termination of innocent life of the born or unborn is a direct violation of our unalienable right to life.

In addition, Article IV of the Constitution guarantees to each state a republican form of government. Although a Supreme Court opinion is binding on the parties to the controversy as to the particulars of the case, it is not a political rule for the nation. Roe v. Wade is an illegitimate usurpation of authority, contrary to our Constitution.

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