Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson and Rep. Reuven Carlyle are hosting a town hall meeting for residents of the 36th legislative district at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 19 at the Q Café, located at 3223 15th Ave West in Interbay. The main focus of the meeting will be to discuss the 2010 legislative session and the future of our state.
“For the past two legislative sessions, the state has faced fiscal challenges not seen since the Great Depression,” Kohl-Welles said in a press release yesterday. “We will be sharing with constituents how the Legislature addressed these challenges in passing the operating budget with a combination of budget cuts, new revenue and closing of tax loopholes, federal stimulus funds and using some of the reserves.”
“We have a lot to talk about,” Dickerson said.
Kohl-Welles, Dickerson and Carlyle will also discuss legislation affecting the 36th District, which encompasses Queen Anne, Magnolia, Ballard, Belltown, Fremont, Phinney Ridge, Greenwood and Blue Ridge, and will allot time to hear comments and questions from constituents.
“While email and phone calls during session are great, getting together and talking about our community is hugely informative and motivating as a lawmaker,” Carlyle said. “Our state is facing huge issues, and we need everyone involved in the solutions.”
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1 QARunner // Apr 12, 2010 at 8:56 pm
I for one am extremely dissapointed by the budget fiasco in Olympia.
We don't need legislators that extort tax payers in order to provide unionized state employees with better salaries and benefits than the private sector electorate enjoys. State workers should be forced to accept pay and job cuts just the way the vast majority of Washington state inhabitants have. The number one focus of the leigslature needs to be creating the right environment for job creation. This is not going to happen if the socialists in Olympia continue to raise taxes and continue to threaten us with a state income tax.