Morality and decency are supported by mindful citizens, not just Christians or devout members of society. Most decent people recognize laws must depend on observable and provable facts. To protect law-abiding members of society from criminals, an enforcement mechanism of those laws, paid for with taxes, is formed and maintained as a trained police force. Those who break laws must get arrested to receive a fair trial and then be adequately punished.
In Washington state, among almost all of the Democrats, the above summary of how laws serve the general public is no longer valid or applied fairly. Instead, with the messaging and propaganda by mainstream media not correctly reporting facts, and schools no longer teaching excellence to our children, our local officials will make sure we just keep our conversations on distractions and hysteria.
It is clear that Democrats, both at the federal and local levels, are obsessed with “fundamentally transforming” our country.
While majority legislators at the state capitol, along with radical city councils, have made our state less safe for law abiding citizens, our representative for the Third Congressional District, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat who describes herself as a “moderate,” also shows support for this similar radical agenda in how she votes.
She is not a moderate.
Marie voted “no” against House Resolution 26, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Among the bill’s highlights, it “specifies that a health care provider present during an abortion procedure resulting in a premature birth provides the same degree of care as would reasonably be provided to any other premature birth at the same gestational age and immediately admitted to a hospital.”
Marie voted against protecting the Second Amendment in her “no” on House Joint Resolution 44.
Marie voted “no” against House Resolution 734, Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023.
Marie voted “no” against House Resolution 277, Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act of 2023, which establishes a congressional approval process for a major rule where that rule is likely to result in an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more. The bill also provides congressional safeguards against increases in costs to key sectors of the economy, geographic regions or against agency rules that adversely affect competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation or the ability of U.S.-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises.
Our prosperity and morality is what makes Washington state still attractive for young families and retirees. However, some people are moving out of state, while others are staying behind. Some wisely recognize our current times as a new type of war, which is an accurate assessment. Through all this tension and chaos of rising crime, inflation and indoctrination of our youth, our role as citizens is to identify the source of the problem. The problem is engineered through bad policies that intentionally harm our productivity and encroach on our freedoms. Our freedoms must be protected at all costs.
Matt Garland
Chehalis
