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Just getting things started ... a C & P of "The case for Jay Inslee"
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Current governor of Washington (2013 to present)
Former member of the state house (4 years)
Former congressman (7 terms)
Current Chair of the Democratic Governor's Association
Governor Inslee has extensive legislative and executive experience. He has a progress record (use PVS link below) both as a congressman and a governor and he recognizes all too well the danger that trump represents to this country.
Quote from his Wikipedia page ... "Inslee has emerged as one of the most recognized critics of the administration of President Donald Trump. (snip) ... Inslee played a major role in the opposition to Trump's Executive Order 13769, in which a restriction halted travel for 90 days from seven Muslim-majority countries, and a total ban on Syrian refugees entering the United States. The order was blocked by the courts and later superseded by other executive orders."
A quote from this article from Politico ... "“I think our country needs a Democratic Party to produce a nominee who’s going to really be committed to climate change and defeating climate change and creating a clean energy economic message and clean energy jobs."
His voting record and ratings from various organizations can be found at Project Vote Smart.
Some highlights are:
NARAL - 100% ... League of Woman Voters - 100% ... NAACP - 90%+ ... Am. Fed. of Teachers - 100% ... League of Conservation Voters - 92% lifetime ... NRA - 7%, F (that's GOOD!), ... SEIU - 85%- 100%, National Education Association - 100%, ... AFL-CIO - 88% lifetime, ... Alliance for Retired Americans - 96% lifetime, ... Human Rights Campaign (sexual orientation) - 88% - 100%, ... DAV (Disabled American Veterans) - 100%
The only negatives I could find on him were some snafu's from his first term as governor and the fact that he increased capital gains and business taxes, which are not negatives to me.
He's smart, experienced, progressive and will present as the complete opposite of our current pResident in terms of intelligence, temperament, leadership and humanity.
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And pretty much my main and just-about-only issue.
Years ago I was saying that all the jobs in the world won’t mean squat if you’re gagging and wheezing and getting sick just by breathing and ingesting the toxins and pollutants in the environment on the way to work.
All the tax cuts and health care coverage in the world won’t mean squat if you’re choking and dying because of life on a poisoned and overheating planet.
If we disrupt the food chain and decimate the forests and poison the oceans and cover every spare inch with trash and litter and plastic shit and non-biodegradables, all the PAST-the-11th-hour mitigation efforts won’t mean squat.
All the cows in the world won’t save us.
The climate crisis supersedes ALL.
Unless, perhaps, you have another planet that can sustain life as we know it, to which we all can realistically evacuate.
