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I'm excited to help #waleg build back better today.

Rep. @wickse's HB 1329 is exactly how.

While #idleg Rep @MeganBlanksma work to silence #healthcareheroes public health boards, we're working to let more voices be heard. That's building back better. That's leadership for you.


Here is how we #buildbackbetter... @wickse HB 1329 will:

a) Allow public comment, including an online component regardless if the meeting is in-person or online

b) Require recordings be retained of public meetings

c) Put in minutes why an executive session to exclude ze public


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@TVWnews link:
https://t.co/WBNULbIkR9

Three bills on deck today... so might be a while before HB 1329. Will live-tweet out ze action as able.

But we will have a real hearing with real testimony & real sunlight as we work to build back better.


We also have HB 1180, a weak @WaHouseGOP #opengov bill with a lot of testimony to come also. Bill doesn't go far enough as I'll explain. Basically no online public comment option.


But enough about weak bills. HB 1180 won't go anywhere.

More worried about the concern trolling to amend and likely weaken HB 1329. #waleg has way too many lobbyists who don't work for the people but for the government bench as you can see below.
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So shortly after the 2016 election, I pointed out how odd it was that the Reason homepage was dominated by stories either mocking and ridiculing the left for being fearful of what was to come, or articles about how Trump might actually be good for libertarians.


Now, in 2020, we have one party so upset about the election, they’re openly fomenting a crisis of democracy. Here’s the Reason homepage today. There’s one article about all of that. There’s a hell of a lot more about the threat posed by Joe Biden. And more riciduling the left.


I’m picking on Reason. And I’ll add that there are people there who have sufficiently grasped the threat the last four years, despite the general editorial direction of the magazine. But it really underscores the disappointment I’ve had with my fellow libertarians in general ...

... in the Trump era. We’re supposed to be the alarmists. Proudly! We’re supposed to the ones who overreact when government overreaches. Because alarmism is a hell of a lot better than complacency. And history tells us that governments tend not to give powers ...

... back once they’ve claimed them. In the Trump era, too many libertarians not only stopped being alarmists, they spent most of their time scolding and ridiculing the people who were. I mean, it’s still bizarre to me that the philosophy that ...
Watching some Christians react to election news is a sober reminder of how easy it is to forget the unborn and the horrific evil and injustice that is legally done to them every day in this country.

Take this sentiment expressed by a Christian journalist, which is simultaneously ignorant, tacky, and completely callous to the horror of the murder of innocents.


It's ignorant, because 1) correlation does not equal causation, and 2) a far more plausible reason that abortion rates declined in those years is owing to pro-life legislation at the state level.

It's tacky, because the primary aim of the comment is to antagonize pro-life Christians who voted for Trump on the ground that he has followed through on many of his campaign promises regarding pro-life policies & judges. Make light of baby murder to own the Trumpsters.

It's callous, because Biden/Harris plan to aggressively rollback policies that limit abortions.
1. This is not correct by @BBCRosAtkins


2. Firstly, the EU shared rules in the deal they did with Canada, they just did it in a different way.

3. Canada were required to sign up to several car regulations in UNECE.

4. The EU has, at minimum, 48% of the vote on any one of those regulations. With CETA, Canada agreed to share rules where it can be outvoted, and most likely will be.

5. The alignment the EU is proposing for the UK is different. It's based on dynamic alignment which is about approximating rules.
1/ WHO's WHO & how did we get here?? HINDSIGHT=2020
#InnocenceProject Corrupt too? Like ACLU, RedCross,SEIU,BLM,CIA,FBI,DOJ,IRS,USPTO,FCC,SEC, under RenegadeObama?EXCLUSIVE: Valerie Jarrett Joins Board of Directors for the Innocence Project ;via=Snip Daily

2/Is #ShadowGovt doing Education Infiltration too?Former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett joins Ariel Investment
https://t.co/qYKxDHi3T3 founder&chairmanJohnW.RogersJr. a longtime friend of Obama's. Former ObamaSec'y of Education Arne Duncan also was appointed toAriel board

3/Is #ShadowGovt trying to wreck UBER in favor of corrupting LYFT?Lyft appoints former Obama adviser to board | https://t.co/X07u3OfxxN... Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc said on Monday it appointed Valerie Jarrett, an adviser to former President Barack Obama, to its board.

Facebook? #ShadowGovt Is this how DARPA gets in, hmm?
Facebook Goes Into Overdrive - Appoints Former Top Obama Advisor to Board of Directors

4/This list can go on..and on..an ON. It's not just aSWAMP, it's a deliberate &structured Parallel Construct by the prior Regime to OVERTHROW Our American Government from within: Beginning with CORRUPTING the Transition of Power, & ending w/ STEALING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.. If