Liveblogging from the transportation listening tour
LIVE from Seattle: Transportation “listening tour” comes to the Emerald City
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2013/10/live-from-seattle-transportation-listening-tour-comes-to-the-emerald-city.html
Good evening from Seattle. I’m here at the First Presbyterian Church on First Hill, where a dozen members of the state House and Senate are holding a public meeting to talk about Washington State’s transportation needs. This is the latest stop on what’s been called a “listening tour” instigated by Rodney Tom and Senate Republicans following the Senate’s failure earlier this year to take up the statewide transportation package passed by the House, or even propose their own.
I’ll update this post as frequently as I can. The hearing is scheduled to run from 6 PM to 9 PM and there will be a lot of testimony.
Tim Eyman gets an earful in Seattle after stepping to the mic to recite his talking points
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2013/10/tim-eyman-gets-an-earful-in-seattle-after-stepping-to-the-mic-to-recite-his-talking-points.html
Initiative profiteer Tim Eyman got a taste of what it’s like to be interrupted and heckled tonight when he showed up in Seattle to speak at the second to last stop on Rodney Tom and Curtis King’s transportation autumn “listening tour”, which has been traveling around the state since mid-September.
Live from Whatcom: Senate Republican Transportation Listening Tour
http://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2013/10/live-from-whatcom-senate-republican-transportation-listening-tour.html
It’s been a foggy day here in Bellingham, but the low visibility has not kept people from coming to the Bellingham leg of the Senate Republican’s listening tour, because this place is packed. As we covered earlier this month, Bellingham was not originally a place scheduled to be part of the tour, but the size of the audience shows no indication of that.
It’s not all Republican legislators who are here, but in attendance are Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom (who probably still thinks he’s a Democrat), Senator Curtis King (co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee), the insufferable Senator Doug Ericksen (42 LD) , the “roadkill” Democrat Senator Steve Hobbs, and Representatives Jeff Morris (D-40) and Vincent Buys (R-42).
