Jim Brunner
Political Reporter at Seattle Times
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Jim Brunner
On a night in mid-December, then-Gov. Jay Inslee called Microsoft President Brad Smith with a heads-up. The next day, Inslee would be rolling out a budget proposal with higher business taxes and a new “wealth tax” on the state’s richest residents. For Smith, the governor’s news came as an unwelcome surprise. “What are you doing to us?” Smith says he told the governor, recalling the conversation in an interview last week with The Seattle Times.
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2 weeks ago |
tri-cityherald.com | Jim Brunner
During his campaign last year, Gov. Bob Ferguson counted on strong support from state employee unions that showered his campaign with money and helped with voter phone calls and door knocks. But as he wrestles with an estimated $16 billion budget shortfall, Ferguson's cut-first approach, including proposed furloughs for state workers, has surprised and angered some of his erstwhile labor allies.
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2 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Jim Brunner
During his campaign last year, Gov. Bob Ferguson counted on strong support from state employee unions that showered his campaign with money and helped with voter phone calls and door knocks. But as he wrestles with an estimated $16 billion budget shortfall, Ferguson’s cut-first approach, including proposed furloughs for state workers, has surprised and angered some of his erstwhile labor allies.
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3 weeks ago |
cpapracticeadvisor.com | Jim Brunner |Jason Bramwell
By Jim BrunnerThe Seattle Times(TNS)Apr. 1-Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday panned budget plans by legislative Democrats for relying on "far too much in taxes," including a new wealth tax he warned could be overturned by courts. Ferguson called the tax aimed at the state's richest residents "novel, untested, difficult to implement" and warned it would face an immediate legal challenge, making it a bad choice to close the state's multibillion-dollar budget shortfall.
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4 weeks ago |
gazettextra.com | Jim Brunner
Former two-time Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent was among the handful of people included in a Trump administration Signal group chat discussing sensitive information about U.S. plans for a military strike in Yemen. The Signal texts exploded into a scandal this week after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, revealed he’d been accidentally added to the chat, which included specific details about the plans for attacks on Houthi militia.
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