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@minty_hawk Glad to hear that. We have found Ms. Reed to be very thoughtful and open to what we had to say on several occasions. We'd giver her a "B" grade. Shes a nice human.

We've been publishing conflict-of-interest findings on Washington State legislators. Berry, Fitzgibbon, Frame, Pedersen, MacEwen. We cast a wide net. Sometimes we are pleasantly surprised. Here's Rep. Julia Reed, 36th District. /1

@DerBrauns @choeshow All of those groups have ties to or are labor groups. If you research the people involved, what causes, or legislation they support, who wrote the legislation, etc. More than not its linked to a union...mostly SEIU, but others...look at endorsements. Look at Soros too.

@FullServiceWkrs @choeshow Which ones are labor Groups?

They keep saying this is organic. But look who’s behind the No Kings demonstration in Seattle. Many Soros funded professional protesters will be showing up to destabilize America.

@thehoffather We will be using the term "Ventifada" now. Not sorry for for grabbing it. Perfect description of the SEIU attack on Starbucks. BTW Jayapals hubby is a big SEIU guy...you should expose that.

TONE DEAF Starbucks is leaving Seattle and moving to Nashville, but Rep Pramila Jayapal (D-HAMAS) is still pushing her Ventifada against the company. Pouring coffee used to be a part time job. Now she and her band of activists want it to be a career.

@loganb Only 1% of the entire hourly workforce works for federal minimum wage. That was 21% in the 1970s. As an example, average hourly wage in WI is $21. Mandating wage floors kills jobs.

Minimum wage just went away and it was mostly…fine? Or more precisely, we’ve run a relatively hot economy for the last 15 years and that has done waaaaaay more for waaaaay more people to ensure well-being than a min wage ever did or could. That’s the policy we must retain.

@ram7067 If no one thinks that there is a war on Seattle's service industry, you're blind.

Seattle being Seattle

@SEIU The SEIU takes from working people in the form of dues skimming and bad policy like tip pooling and mandated wage floors. We need to get public sector unions out of the government NOW!

While the Trump regime continues to try to intimidate us, and take from working people, this Saturday, SEIU members across the country rise to demand MONEY, POWER, and RESPECT! No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. Join us at a rally near you: seiu.co/NoKings28 #NoKings

@TravisSCouture "If you think a lawsuit, or an initiative, will fix the march towards socialism in WA — you’re dreaming." Thank you for saying this! Now, make mail in ballots illegal and maybe our elections will reflect the true will of the people.

*incoming rant* Why should you care about vacant buildings as businesses exit WA ahead of the income tax? Here’s how it works 👇 ➡️ Commercial property → valued off income ➡️ Vacancy → lower income ➡️ Lower income → lower assessed value ➡️ Lower assessed value → smaller share of the property tax levy ➡️ Smaller share → tax burden shifts to homeowners and small businesses Vacancy redistributes property taxes. The way property taxes work is the government sets a levy and spreads it across all properties in that jurisdiction. The more value and income, the thinner that levy is spread across properties which reduces tax burdens. In short, when a business occupies a building and generates income, it pays a higher share of the property tax levy so the burden is lighter on more properties. Vacancies mean less value and income, and then that levy has fewer places to spread, so it piles on the remaining properties. It’s effectively a property tax increase as most people would realize it, but the government still collects that levied amount regardless if there is more or less value. What the government does lose is the sales and B&O revenue as a result of a vacant building not hosting an active business. Chasing businesses away with an uncompetitive tax environment shifts costs onto everyone else, reduces jobs, and drives up prices. It’s simple economics. This new income tax, on top of the extreme sales, B&O, payroll, local, estate, and capital gains taxes, is a dangerous recipe for more capital flight and vacancy, which will increase your property tax burdens. This is why ‘taxing the rich’ is the most brain dead and greedy old idea repurposed for modern times. Most of the ‘rich’ (ironically the same people who fund an incredible amount of your essential services, charities, create your jobs, and provide capital for more) don’t pay these taxes, they simply leave. They are the most sophisticated tax payers in the entire world, and exponentially smarter than a group of community activists or socialists turned elected official who have little real life experience. When enough of them leave, the vacuum they create when they exit devastates the rest of us. Advocating for this income tax is the epitome of being a ‘useful idiot’ — willing to carry the ideological water of your own economic turmoil for a small group of radicals is the most unintelligent display of hive mentality and tribalism in spite of every bit of economic evidence I’ve seen in a long while. In the end, the millionaires aren’t hurt (they’ll bounce before they’re hurt), it’s you when you have to pick up the pieces because you may not have the ability to leave. And when the revenue fails to make up for the impossible promises Democrats made so it would make you feel good inside, they’ll spread it down to lower incomes, and they will tell you intellectually lazy and insane things like ‘it’s to balance the tax code and to make things more affordable’… but it won’t. There won’t be any elimination of other taxes. Life in WA will become exponentially more expensive. If you think a lawsuit, or an initiative, will fix the march towards socialism in WA — you’re dreaming. The only path to sustainable change is to win elections from the ground up. Full Stop. That’s the one thing everyone should be focused and invested in.

@PattyMurray Passing the Save America Act means you'll likely be out of a job.

Residents of Washington state. Students. Married women. Seniors. Rural families. Millions of people will have to jump through hoops & pay more to vote under Trump's SAVE America Act. I will not let Republicans pass their scam anti-voter bill.

@Ksaktweets And...progressives are run by the labor unions who are professional organizers.

Progressives natural inclination is to organize because they love demonstrating values and virtue in public. Conservatives or those with more classically liberal values natural inclination is toward self sufficiency and self accomplishment. Conservatives don’t organize even when they need to more than ever.

@ArthurDelaneyHP Every damned time....you cant unsee it.

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@PSBJ Never justified when we could see that the money was never helping solve the problems. Where did all the money go?

Seattle has layered on major new business taxes and nearly doubled its general fund over the last decade, yet the problems used to justify ever-higher taxes remain, writes Jon Scholes. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…

@DerBrauns @choeshow If you noticed...the "sponsors" are are labor groups. They are the ones causing chaos.

@choeshow It has just dawned on me, that these trained mobile Protestors may be the same lot that corporations hire as strike busters. Professional Scabs are among the vilest of humans and would have now qualms fightings crowds for a living. Maybe a new angle to pursue 😉

@SEIU Remember this...freedomfoundation.com/press-release/…

$1.3 billion stolen from Medicare and Medicaid by a wealthy fraudster. Care ripped away from the people who need it most. Yet somehow, that’s not the fraud they’re focused on. Because when you’ve got connections, the rules don’t apply. The system is rigged. seiu.co/4daH9P6

@AsbRider_10 It explicitly phases out the tip credit. This will drive down the wages of tipped workers.

@FullServiceWkrs Um, have you read the bill? Does it cover all workers the same or does it, like most pay related legislation, consider tipped workers a separate class? #ReadMore

This will shut out nearly every independent restaurant and kill tipped work. Servers will have no way to maximize their incomes, which is well over $30 and hour, through merit.

@AsbRider_10 Getting rid of any type of tip credit will end tipping, certainly at $30.

@SEIUPres No university should be doing business with big labor syndicates like the SEIU, indoctrinating our children into Marxist ideology.

No university should be doing business with companies profiting off the detention and deportation of our families and neighbors. College sports are supposed to be about teamwork, opportunity, and integrity. Take action: act.seiu.org/a/de-ice-these…

A New Mexico court upholds it, rejecting a First Amendment defense. Injunction Against Further Leafletting by Union Organizer at CEO's Front Door buff.ly/Q4gv2nE via @reason

@SEIUPres What you believe in is fascist syndicalism, where the public sector unions become the government. FDR warned us about it and we need to make this stuff illegal again.

This is the future I believe in: more teachers, janitors, nurses, caregivers, airport workers, public workers, and union leaders stepping up to run for office. Not polished elites. Not corporate puppets. Working people. And when we run, we can win. jacobin.com/2026/03/labor-…

@SEIUPres Only 1% of all hourly workers actually work for $7.25. Even in a state like Wisconsin, the median hourly wage is $24 an hour according to the bls. Mandating wage floors is economic sabotage, you know it.

The federal minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour. In 2026. Workers are out here saying what this administration refuses to hear: “I know things are worse, because I’m living it and I feel it every day.” It’s clear who this economy is working for, and it sure isn’t working people.

@minty_hawk @KarenKeiser1 Fair point! Lol

@FullServiceWkrs @KarenKeiser1 That’s funny because it implies the SEIU works 🤣

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