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Ballard News-Tribune: Legislators recount session’s disappointments at town hall

From the Ballard News-Tribune:

Photo by Zachariah Bryan, Ballard News-Tribune
Photo by Zachariah Bryan, Ballard News-Tribune

Not too many names were named, but it was clear at the 36th District Town Hall at the Phinney Neighborhood Center that legislators were disappointed — to put it lightly — in the actions of Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom and the Senate Majority Coalition.

After all, it was the Senate Majority Coalition, they said, who stopped the DREAM Act, a meaningful transportation package, getting more revenue to properly fund K-12 education, closing meaningless tax loopholes and more.

“I think a lot of people don’t appreciate this type of move. Changing Senate rules, blocking things, not allowing votes to come to the floor,” Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Belltown) said. She hinted that things would not look good on the campaign trail for Republicans and the turncoat Democrats. Tom will be up for re-election in 2014.

Click here to read Zachariah Bryan’s full story.