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[...] and his staff denied the existence of any plan to bypass the Legislature and implement a fuel mandate by executive order. At a January 2014 forum hosted by the Associated Press, Inslee claimed not [...]

[...] Jay Inslee denied time and time again that he had a fuel mandate scheme—Shift’s public records investigation proved he wasn’t exactly being truthful. And, [...]

[...] The Department of Ecology’s fuel mandate comment period begins today. Legislators and the public have from February 4th-28th to submit [...]

[...] Jay Inslee’s only chance to fulfill the fuel mandate promise he made to fellow extreme “green” Democrats in 2013 is to issue an executive order. He [...]

[...] to implement a small change to the teacher-evaluation system. The change would have allowed Washington State to qualify for the federal waiver system to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. [...]

[...] a dramatic increase in hydroelectric power. Democrats’ suggestion that Washington State should follow China’s lead is not only ignorant, it’s just plan insulting. [...]

[...] services to farmers’ crops, work to suppliers and tens of thousands of Latino employees in Washington state, is on the list. Alcoa, maker of aluminum that will be used in electric car batteries, the [...]

[...] campaigns (like Jay Inslee’s). In the process, they also continue to damage education in Washington State. During the 2014 legislative cycle, Democrats in the state Senate delivered a blow to [...]

[...] Jay Inslee is at it again, trying to deny the truth by championing a twisted sense of reality and [...]

[...] Jay Inslee and his fellow Democrats justify spending a whopping $867 million (the result of Inslee’s [...]

[...] Jay Inslee did not show up to testify before the House Environment Committee’s hearing on his cap-and-tax [...]

[...] Last week, Jay Inslee traveled to Snohomish County in an attempt to drum up support for his transportation proposal, [...]

[...] Senate is controlled by Republicans and the state House by Democrats, passing a needed transportation package will require a bi-partisan effort. That means compromise, which means no side will walk [...]

[...] , Peterson glosses over the failure of the Inslee administration to negotiate a transportation package over the last two years, suggesting she thinks “people are trying to find out where that [...]

[...] The state Senate introduced an initial bi-partisan transportation package yesterday. Our state needs a transportation package to fund key projects and relief [...]

[...] state representatives. Inslee claimed that there had not been much public support for his transportation package voiced by those representing Snohomish County. He said, “Now let me explain the [...]

Republicans are not impressed with President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal and they are pulling out all the rhetorical jabs to make their poin [...]

President Obama is expected to veer even further to the left when he delivers his budget on Monday. Obama’s already had to drop a plan to tax colleg [...]

President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget would make the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) permanent—the same tax benefit used by Solyndra to build sola [...]

President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget would “raise government revenues as a share of gross domestic product steadily over the next decade, and make [...]

[...] by funding third-party organizations which then hire influential Democrats to draft environmental policies for Democrat governors like Kitzhaber and Inslee. For example, Steyer has given, through [...]

[...] be made. By far the most absurd aspect of the email is the claim that extreme environmental policies—like those Steyer pushes—would create “hundreds of thousands of good jobs.” [...]

[...] Manning received private funding to assist the Inslee administration and influence its environmental policies. We further revealed emails which proved outside environmental groups, including the [...]

[...] is probable that Steyer funded Hayes’ “fellowship” as she advised Kitzhaber on… environmental policies in Oregon, including the fuel mandate. Under Oregon law, public officials are [...]

[...] Washington program, denied knowledge that a contract existed. It is noteworthy that Inslee administration now uses both GPI and GDP as measurements of the state’s health. Kitzhaber, Hayes and [...]

[...] that called for imposing a fuel mandate in Washington. That $150,000 contract, which the Inslee administration signed off on, was funded not by the government but by outside environmental groups, [...]

[...] for more reforms.” Even more distressing, Peterson glosses over the failure of the Inslee administration to negotiate a transportation package over the last two years, suggesting she [...]