Last night’s election in Washington State is a big deal. Washington has an undeserved reputation as being as blue as Massachusetts. This is not true, and I’m going to show you why, by going back in history. Presidential elections If you look at the 1980s, Reagan won Washington State twice. Al Gore was the first …
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The Path to Fair and Equitable Carbon Pricing
This morning, as I was eating my breakfast, I was thinking about global warming and carbon taxes as I usually do. We had some important progress done this year, and we can use the momentum we have gotten from this next year to pass significant legislation in 2020 in the Washington State Legislature. Brief history …
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Design a Carbon Tax Now! Or, how to make a more efficient legislature to solve our problems.
Abstract Thoughts on how to design a more effective legislature to solve important issues like global warming by using ranked voting. Introduction It is now 2019. We are about to start the legislative session with the largest Democratic Majority in Washington State for 70 years, and if we are ever going to get progress done …
Wish list 2019
We are possibly going to see the largest Democratic landslide in the Washington State legislature since 1940 this year, as a response to Donald Trump and the general liberaliation of America. If Democrats do as well in the General as they did in the Primary, we will win between 66 and 68 seats out of …