Seattle & Puget Sound Kossacks Have Lunch with Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon

Four days after the mid-term elections Seattle & Puget Sound Kossacks had lunch with Representative Joe Fitzgibbon, WA 34th, Chair of the Environment Committee and serving on the Finance, Transportation and Local Government Committees.  

Special thanks goes to bleeding blue for making this all possible!  

It was not a good mid-term for Democrats nationally, nor was it a good one for Democates in Washington State.

Election Shifts Oregon Closer To Carbon Tax, Not So For Washington

Environmentalists spent more than $1.5 million in Oregon and Washington in bids to secure Democratic majorities in state legislatures — majorities they wanted for approving clean-fuel standards and a tax on carbon emissions.

The plan worked in Oregon. It didn’t in Washington.

The Washington Conservation Voters, with money from California billionaire Tom Steyer, backed Democratic candidates in three conservative-leaning districts in an attempt to give their party control of the state Senate. All three lost to Republicans.

Reality can't be changed.  All one can do is access the situation and plan the best path forward. Having the opportunity to discuss it all with the Washington State House of Representatives Environmental Committee Chair Joe Fitzgibbon was just what the doctor ordered.  
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