Chronicle Facebook followers respond to post of “Our Views: Gov. Inslee Vetoes Violate Trust of Divided Legislature:”

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Jeff Merryman: Why did the Legislature take so long to reach a deal? I’m sure they were not volunteering their time for all these special sessions. I’m glad Inslee stuck it to them, and everyone should support the simple fact he did. Where were all the concerned Legislature folks when it came to our kids and their education? Remember the McCleary decision.

Carol Brock: Sen. Braun slipped that provision in at the last minute. We need no more tax breaks for the 1 percent. Washington was named today as the No. 1 state for business. TransAlta has made its money and now it is time to support all the people who have paid their power bills to line their pockets.

John Smith: IMHO with impending federal cuts, wouldn’t it be prudent to maybe not be giving money away (tax breaks) Boeing has taken that tax break for granted; they promise the world and move production anyway. TransAlta is a good corporate citizen in our area but if the president gets his way there will be less money to go around.

Pete Hammer: The vetoed tax break was inserted at the last minute by Sen. Braun and the Senate Republicans, which is underhanded in itself. The tax break would benefit Sen. Braun’s business and he was allowed to vote on it by Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib (Democrat) because everyone was desperate to avoid a shutdown, even though its a conflict of interest. Washington is the No. 1 state for business in 2017, according to CNBC before this tax cut, so why is this necessary? The Chronicle failed to report Braun’s shady deal leading up to the veto. I disagree with this editorial because it doesn’t tell the whole story.

Chronline Comments

• Story: TransAlta Responds to Inslee’s Veto  of Coal Conversion Incentives

Username: hiccup1234



Mend fences with Inslee by proposing a renewable energy project for Lewis County. Let’s move away from dirty fracked gas and dirty coal.

Username: PaintandStormy

@hiccup1234, what kind of renewable energy project are you proposing that will provide base load like we have now from the Centralia TransAlta plant? The plant currently generates 1,340 megawatts of base load power. What is the renewable energy project that will replace it?

• Story: Eerie Things Going on at Ted Bundy’s Childhood Tacoma Home

Username: Pallenine

Interesting learning about the Bundy house. I recently moved into the house directly across the street from theirs to stay at a friends for a couple months. About a month ago, I was doing some digging and gardening in the back yard and kept finding bones. It was really creeping me out because they didn’t look like anything I had seen before. I kept finding them and showed my boyfriend, who told me I should throw them out, which I did. Then the other day I stumbled across this article only about that house across the street being the Bundy childhood house and then I was really creeped out about the bones I had found in the backyard. Still yet, I went out back to see if their were more and found a few more.