"Not to be outdone politically, the Association for Washington Business is
taking an unusual step. For the first time in its 100 year history, the AWB
has announced it will endorse many incumbent state lawmakers in the Nov. 2
election. The criteria: the voting record of each lawmaker in making the
state competitive.

On its Web site, the AWB supports re-election for 13 state Senators and 35
members of the House of Representatives. There isn't a Democrat on the
list."

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Did you catch that, Chuck? "There isn't a Democrat on the list"...of
lawmakers who are making the state competitive for business and job
creation.

Here's the link:


http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/n...es/NW_072004TB
CsmallbizDS.5dd9b82.htmlhttp://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/northwest/bizco
ach/stories/NW_072004TBCsmallbizDS.5dd9b82.html

Shows how easily you can be confused by
a snapshot of a tiny portion of a broad landscape.

When Boeing was blackmailing several states simultaneously, our sell-out
Democratic Governor and state legislators panicked and reduced Boeing's taxes
with a package worth over $3 billion over the next few years. The payoff to the
state?
We just heard that Boeing is going to hire 2000 people here, at probably $50k a
year average apiece. In other words, if the rest of the taxpayers in the state
will pay more money or forego enough services to subsidize Boeing for $3
billion, Boeing will see that we get a tiny fraction of that money back in
wages.

The lawmakers who supported granting the corporate welfare to Boeing are
probably high on the list of people working to make the state "favorable" for
business. :-(