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Largely along partisan lines the state House passed its budget last night 55 43 Two notable Democratic Nay votes were Reps Geoff Simpson D 47 and Brendan Williams D 22 two members of the Blue Green Alliance an ad hoc group of 16 progressives who had pledged to move the budget left by restoring social services state workers health care and environmental programs that had been axed in the initial proposal Immediately after last night s  10 20 pm vote Rep Simpson said This budget doesn t represent my values We will continue to cause great harm to our state as we have in recent years with this budget Last session we cut 3 Read the rest of this entry »

Largely along partisan lines the state House passed its budget last night 55 43 Two notable Democratic Nay votes were Reps Geoff Simpson D 47 and Brendan Williams D 22 two members of the Blue Green Alliance an ad hoc group of 16 progressives who had pledged to move the budget left by restoring social services state workers health care and environmental programs that had been axed in the initial proposal Immediately after last night s  10 20 pm vote Rep Simpson said This budget doesn t represent my values We will continue to cause great harm to our state as we have in recent years with this budget Last session we cut 3 Read the rest of this entry »

Largely along partisan lines the state House passed its budget last night 55 43 Two notable Democratic Nay votes were Reps Geoff Simpson D 47 and Brendan Williams D 22 two members of the Blue Green Alliance an ad hoc group of 16 progressives who had pledged to move the budget left by restoring social services state workers health care and environmental programs that had been axed in the initial proposal Immediately after last night s  10 20 pm vote Rep Simpson said This budget doesn t represent my values We will continue to cause great harm to our state as we have in recent years with this budget Last session we cut 3 Read the rest of this entry »

Largely along partisan lines the state House passed its budget last night 55 43 Two notable Democratic Nay votes were Reps Geoff Simpson D 47 and Brendan Williams D 22 two members of the Blue Green Alliance an ad hoc group of 16 progressives who had pledged to move the budget left by restoring social services state workers health care and environmental programs that had been axed in the initial proposal Immediately after last night s  10 20 pm vote Rep Simpson said This budget doesn t represent my values We will continue to cause great harm to our state as we have in recent years with this budget Last session we cut 3 Read the rest of this entry »

Largely along partisan lines the state House passed its budget last night 55 43 Two notable Democratic Nay votes were Reps Geoff Simpson D 47 and Brendan Williams D 22 two members of the Blue Green Alliance an ad hoc group of 16 progressives who had pledged to move the budget left by restoring social services state workers health care and environmental programs that had been axed in the initial proposal Immediately after last night s  10 20 pm vote Rep Simpson said This budget doesn t represent my values We will continue to cause great harm to our state as we have in recent years with this budget Last session we cut 3 Read the rest of this entry »

State Rep Tami Green a leader of the Blue Green Alliance Today s Morning Fizz quoted an angry email by dissident State Rep Brendan Williams D 22 Olympia that trashed House leadership for proposing a budget that cuts social services and environmental programs He specifically called out the neutered version of the hazardous substance tax we wrote about yesterday Williams—a member of the 16 member Green Blue Alliance an ad hoc crew of environmental  and labor progressives in the Democratic caucus who have sworn to make sure this year s budget skews left—said in his email that the Alliance was going to come forward wit Read the rest of this entry »

State Rep Tami Green a leader of the Blue Green Alliance Today s Morning Fizz quoted an angry email by dissident State Rep Brendan Williams D 22 Olympia that trashed House leadership for proposing a budget that cuts social services and environmental programs He specifically called out the neutered version of the hazardous substance tax we wrote about yesterday Williams—a member of the 16 member Green Blue Alliance an ad hoc crew of environmental  and labor progressives in the Democratic caucus who have sworn to make sure this year s budget skews left—said in his email that the Alliance was going to come forward wit Read the rest of this entry »

State Rep Tami Green a leader of the Blue Green Alliance Today s Morning Fizz quoted an angry email by dissident State Rep Brendan Williams D 22 Olympia that trashed House leadership for proposing a budget that cuts social services and environmental programs He specifically called out the neutered version of the hazardous substance tax we wrote about yesterday Williams—a member of the 16 member Green Blue Alliance an ad hoc crew of environmental  and labor progressives in the Democratic caucus who have sworn to make sure this year s budget skews left—said in his email that the Alliance was going to come forward wit Read the rest of this entry »

State Rep Tami Green a leader of the Blue Green Alliance Today s Morning Fizz quoted an angry email by dissident State Rep Brendan Williams D 22 Olympia that trashed House leadership for proposing a budget that cuts social services and environmental programs He specifically called out the neutered version of the hazardous substance tax we wrote about yesterday Williams—a member of the 16 member Green Blue Alliance an ad hoc crew of environmental  and labor progressives in the Democratic caucus who have sworn to make sure this year s budget skews left—said in his email that the Alliance was going to come forward wit Read the rest of this entry »

State Rep Tami Green a leader of the Blue Green Alliance Today s Morning Fizz quoted an angry email by dissident State Rep Brendan Williams D 22 Olympia that trashed House leadership for proposing a budget that cuts social services and environmental programs He specifically called out the neutered version of the hazardous substance tax we wrote about yesterday Williams—a member of the 16 member Green Blue Alliance an ad hoc crew of environmental  and labor progressives in the Democratic caucus who have sworn to make sure this year s budget skews left—said in his email that the Alliance was going to come forward wit Read the rest of this entry »