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11-20-2007, 09:07 PM
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/archives/2007/11/an_alternative_to_the_1_percent_solution.html
Posted by David Postman at 04:07 PM
When the Legislature convenes next week there will be at least some Democrats not ready to go along with the governor's call for them to quickly pass a 1 percent property tax cap. I was exchanging e-mails today with Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver. He's a vice chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and one of the committee's most influential members.
Pridemore is a definite no vote on a 1 percent cap. He has been trying to find a compromise. Pridemore told me:
I am hoping to work with some other senators to come up with a more realistic and sustainable cap, something along the lines of population growth + inflation with a maximum of 6%.
The call for a special session makes it very difficult to formulate a responsible alternative and still get time to build support for it.
It's unlikely that Gregoire won't eventually get her way, particularly with the House Democrats signed on to the deal. But if Pridemore and a group of Democratic senators look for an alternative, there may be something more resembling debate in the Senate.
Where are the conStemperaries on this??
I'm not surprized that CP is trying to be the leading liberal in the Washington Senate, and is well to the left of Christine, but it kills me that nobody here in town will talk about it!
Posted by David Postman at 04:07 PM
When the Legislature convenes next week there will be at least some Democrats not ready to go along with the governor's call for them to quickly pass a 1 percent property tax cap. I was exchanging e-mails today with Sen. Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver. He's a vice chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and one of the committee's most influential members.
Pridemore is a definite no vote on a 1 percent cap. He has been trying to find a compromise. Pridemore told me:
I am hoping to work with some other senators to come up with a more realistic and sustainable cap, something along the lines of population growth + inflation with a maximum of 6%.
The call for a special session makes it very difficult to formulate a responsible alternative and still get time to build support for it.
It's unlikely that Gregoire won't eventually get her way, particularly with the House Democrats signed on to the deal. But if Pridemore and a group of Democratic senators look for an alternative, there may be something more resembling debate in the Senate.
Where are the conStemperaries on this??
I'm not surprized that CP is trying to be the leading liberal in the Washington Senate, and is well to the left of Christine, but it kills me that nobody here in town will talk about it!