A GOP legislator says unlike in previous years, Democrats in Olympia appear to be pushing various taxes and agendas without bipartisan collaboration.
State House Rep Andrew Barkis (R-Olympia) told the Jason Rantz show on AM 770 KTTH last Friday that unlike other years, bipartisanship appears to be left behind.
Barkis said he has worked with the House Transportation Committee Chair and other Democratic leaders to hammer out some decent budgets; ones that presumably didn t include crippling tax hikes or other highly controversial measures.
But this year, he told Rantz: .They really struck out on their own. This was all done without any kind of bipartisan collaboration on the lead up to this; as a matter of fact, it was just kind of dropped, and then here it was, and I was doing scramble research yesterday.”