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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
LOCAL
► In the Seattle Times — Where is the #MeToo for sexual harassment against immigrant workers? (by Victoria Breckwich Vásquez, Phyllis Gutiérrez Kenney Guadalupe Gamboa) — We all can help to stop sexual harassment of immigrant workers. A lot depends on us as consumers. We buy Washington apples that are grown and harvested by workers and sold worldwide. We use and enjoy hotels and restaurants that employ immigrant workers. We have the power to demand changes to practices that endanger the immigrant workforce.
ALSO at The Stand — #MeToo power shift must be sustained by organized labor
EDITOR’S NOTE — Thank you to the men and women working to restore the power. Be safe!
► In today’s Seattle Times — Seattle City Council approves reform-driven labor deal with police managers — City officials hope that settling with the police managers and having them buy into the historic police reforms will be an incentive for the larger Seattle Police Officers’ Guild (SPOG) to settle its contract. The rank-and-file officers have been without a contract since 2014.
► In today’s Yakima H-R — Police arrest striking S.S. Steiner worker on suspicion of vandalizing manager’s car — A striking employee of S.S. Steiner is accused of vandalizing a company manager’s car in Yakima last week.
ALSO at The Stand — Support the striking Teamsters at S.S. Steiner in Yakima
THIS WASHINGTON
► From the Senate Democrats — Democrats appoint committee chairmanships following switch of Senate control — Democrats in the state Senate on Monday announced new committee structures, members and chairmanships following a switch in control of the Senate from Republican to a Democratic majority. The new chairs include Sen. Lisa Wellman (Early Learning & K12 Education), Sen. Karen Keiser (Labor & Commerce), Sen. Steve Hobbs (Transportation), and Sen. Christine Rolfes (Ways & Means).
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Sutherland drops bid challenging McMorris Rodgers, backs Lisa Brown — Matthew Sutherland, a WSU alumnus who announced his candidacy early this year, told a gathering of Democratic donors Sunday night he was stepping aside to support former state Sen. Lisa Brown. Sutherland will run for one of two positions in the state House in the 9th Legislative District.
► In today’s Spokesman-Review — Washington pushing ahead on ways to cut carbon emissions, Inslee says — President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord isn’t keeping Washington from trying to meet those goals or its governor from joining world leaders to discuss strategy.
CORPORATE TAX GIVEAWAY
► In today’s NY Times — Robbing blue states to pay red (by ) — Republicans have put the majority of their tax cuts on the nation’s credit card, but they’ve handed most of the rest of the bill to blue states… The growing signs that policies are being written to impose costs on states behind enemy lines are worrisome. A new spoils system based on state partisanship wouldn’t just poison our politics. It could also cripple our economic future.
ALSO TODAY at The Stand — Tell Congress to vote ‘NO’ on GOP tax bill
► From The Guardian — Trump’s tax breaks for the rich won’t trickle down to help working Americans (by Steven Greenhouse) — If the president is serious about creating good, middle-class jobs, spending on infrastructure would be far more effective than helping the already very comfortable.
► In today’s Cleveland Plain-Dealer — Ohio delegation: Stop the GOP tax plan fast-track (editorial) — Federal tax reform is too important to be pushed through on a narrow, partisan basis. The process needs to be more transparent, bipartisan and with a longer timeline to allow for full debate and to make sure the plan is not larded with hidden giveaways to win votes.
THAT WASHINGTON
► In today’s Washington Post — GOP leaders press Moore to leave Alabama Senate race as fifth accuser comes forward — Roy Moore showed no signs that he was preparing to step aside even as Senate leaders declared him “unfit to serve” and threatened to expel him from Congress if he were elected.
► From The Hill — Trump faces big choice on Moore’s fate — Trump is set to play a decisive role in the Republican battle over Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore — if he chooses to do so. Senate Republicans signaled on Monday that they want nothing to do with Moore, but key parts of Trump’s political base are sticking with him. Breitbart News and Trump’s political guru Stephen Bannon are both fighting for Moore.
► From Vox — Was the Democratic primary rigged? (by Ezra Klein) — The 2016 Democratic primary wasn’t rigged by the DNC, and it certainly wasn’t rigged against Bernie Sanders. But Democratic elites did try to make Hillary Clinton’s nomination as inevitable, as preordained, as possible. And the party is still managing the resentment that engendered in voters.
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