Gov. Inslee is Washington’s dictator

For three and half years The Herald has ignored Jay Inslee and hammered Donald Trump. Now Jay Inslee is like the dictator that the Washington state Legislature and the voters allowed him to be and handed him the keys. Complain or praise Jay Inslee all you want. He is a dictator running Washington state into the ground.

Of the many recent reasons are the no-bid contracts from a company with “pretty graphs,” $580 million dollars ripped from the state while the leaders just ignored the software to fix it, and millions of dollars for dereliction of duties by the Children Protective Services imposed was levied by the courts. I counted 12 more reasons this morning while writing this.

Only Whatcom, Jefferson and King Counties want him back. You can vote him out in November.

John Van Dalen

Everett

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