Afraid of Debate

Today I sent an (electronic) letter to my Congressman asking him to sign an open letter to the Speaker of the House & the chairs of the House Appropriations and Rules Committees asking that Pro-Life Riders remain in any bills reported out of either of those committees, and that if those long-standing Pro-Life Riders are not included to at least allow floor debate on amendment of those bills to include Pro-Life Riders.

I would encourage anyone with an opinion on the use of your hard-earned tax dollars for support & funding of abortions all over the world let your elected representatives in the other Washington know how you feel.

Here is the letter I sent:

Representative Reichert,

I urge you to add your signature to the open letter from Representatives Jim Jordan and Heath Shuler to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairman David Obey, and Chairwoman Louise Slaughter requesting that Pro-Life Riders be included in any Appropriations Committee reports.

While I am sure that Speaker Pelosi would like to take as much of my tax dollars as possible to pay for every abortion on Earth I do not support any attempts to pass a de facto Freedom of Choice Act by stealth procedure.

If the President and his proxies in Congress really want to support increasing the number of abortions all over the world with my hard earned money there should at least be an open and honest debate on the topic on the floor of the United States House of Representatives.

Please show your support for such a floor debate by adding your signature to Representatives Jordan and Shuler's letter to the Speaker and Chairs of the Appropriations and Rules Committees.

Sincerely,

Eric W.

Constituent, 8th Congressional District of Washington State

Voter, Taxpayer, and U.S. Navy Veteran

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As my Representative in the U.S. House is not only in the minority, but also does not serve on either the House Standing Committee on Appropriations or the House Standing Committee on Rules I am pretty certain that even if he does sign this open letter that it will have very little impact on the actions of the House Leadership; however, for anyone who is represented by a Congressman that is part of the House Democrat Caucus, especially by Norm Dicks (the third-ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee), the impact of your Representative at least supporting debate of Pro-Life Riders on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives would be huge.

Direct election of Elections Director

So the political machine that is King County governmental politics lost their battle to keep King County as the only county in the state without a directly elected supervisor of elections - thanks to the county initiative process. Now the council has allowed a free-for-all plurality-wins (6-way) race held strictly by mail-in ballot.

The election is officially today, February 3rd, which just means that all ballots to be (presumably) counted must either be postmarked no later than today (meaning the last regular business-day mail pickup) or dropped off at any one of ten 24-hour ballot drop boxes no later than 8PM tonight.

As this office is officially Non-Partisan (like the County Sheriff and Port of Seattle Commissioners, and soon to be all county elected offices) the six declared candidates are not officially identified by party affiliation/preference, but that's just naked imperial theatre in my opinion.

So please do a little homework as to who the candidates are, and then vote!

(P.S.: I think Christopher Clifford has a good record for fighting to keep government entities open and honest).