Washington voter-approved natural gas initiative thrown out as 'unconstitutional

Started by neurosis, March 22, 2025, 12:14 PM

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neurosis

Is there any chance that both Democrats and Republicans are just fucked?


"A King County Superior Court judge has ruled that a voter-approved initiative that would roll back government and utilities' plans to move the state's energy grid away from natural gas violates Washington's Constitution."

https://www.kuow.org/stories/wa-voter-approved-natural-gas-initiative-thrown-out-as-unconstitutional-by-judge
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Incogneeto

Quote from: neurosis on March 22, 2025, 12:14 PMIs there any chance that both Democrats and Republicans are just fucked?


"A King County Superior Court judge has ruled that a voter-approved initiative that would roll back government and utilities' plans to move the state's energy grid away from natural gas violates Washington's Constitution."

https://www.kuow.org/stories/wa-voter-approved-natural-gas-initiative-thrown-out-as-unconstitutional-by-judge

If you had voted for Trump , This would never happen. :D
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neurosis

I'll go back to being a conservative, when conservatives go back to being conservative.

Incogneeto

Quote from: neurosis on March 22, 2025, 12:36 PMlol. bull shit.

They're both ends of a turd.

And you my friend are in The middle. LOL!!

The thickest Part. :D
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neurosis

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Zoffen

I live in washington. We are so fucked its not even funny. They are all so corrupt its CRAZY.

The only way out of this situation in wa is if LOTS of people in .gov go to jail but thats kinda hard to happen when all the judges are corrupt as well. "We have investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.... carry on citizen...."
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Incogneeto

Quote from: Zoffen on March 23, 2025, 02:07 PMI live in washington. We are so fucked its not even funny. They are all so corrupt its CRAZY.

Ok . Define who is Crazy? :o

Kinda gotta pick a side.?

Don't sit on the fence and proclaim your in the middle. :D


neurosis

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Jeff

Quote from: neurosis on March 22, 2025, 12:14 PMIs there any chance that both Democrats and Republicans are just fucked?


"A King County Superior Court judge has ruled that a voter-approved initiative that would roll back government and utilities' plans to move the state's energy grid away from natural gas violates Washington's Constitution."

https://www.kuow.org/stories/wa-voter-approved-natural-gas-initiative-thrown-out-as-unconstitutional-by-judge

The voters want to move AWAY from natural gas? Is that what it's saying?

neurosis

Quote from: Jeff on March 24, 2025, 03:28 AMThe voters want to move AWAY from natural gas? Is that what it's saying?


It's saying that the voters voted to keep the option of natural gas and a judge struck it down basically saying that the voters were mislead by the initiative and so the voters didn't understand what they were voting for. That's partially true. I won't go in to the details.

They've done this several times now by saying the initiatives are unconstitutional because they are either too vague or attempt to tackle a broad range of issues when we have a "single-subject rule" when it comes to initiatives. It's usually activist groups the file the lawsuits. In this case, it was local climate activists backed by Seattle and King County. 

It's all bullshit. They do this when voters pass initiatives that the State disagrees with. Unfortunately, this initiative one of several that had major funding from Republican megadonor Brian Heywood so this initiative, along with three others, were targets to the left from day 1.
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