As usual, there are many inconsistencies with most of the governor’s assessments. Innovation? Maybe not so much. Re-branding bad, corrupt ideas as good, honest ones is anything but innovation- it is deception of the highest levels. The science of which the governor glorifies obviously does not include that of common sense by any means, but consists of personal financial ingratiation and political furtherance. All accomplished by the notion that identity politics is the way to go to win the next goal to a higher rung up the political ladder. This political greed is demonstrated clearly by the governor’s statement: “I’ve worked in politics a long time, Mr. Speaker, and I know it isn’t always pleasant or easy.” However, he forgot to mention those he deceives with his declaration of a balanced state budget, when in fact, he knowingly and underhandedly, changed a few items the Republicans had ASKED for in order to create a great compromise in order to achieve that goal. Education funding was one of the issues Governor Inslee and his cohorts in the legislature reneged on to claim a pass a ‘balanced’ budget. They fail to realize the reality what the root problems of all the public school funding is: 1) Union Thug Teachers demanding outrageous concessions and striking if they are not met, 2) the unsustainable capitulation of catering all the incoming ‘diverse’ students with instruction in their own many different languages, instead of trying to build that common thread of the communal language of English as a primary language. Instead, millions of dollars are wasted with specified language teachers, printing materials in 150 different languages for students, ‘voters’, etc. This is a disgrace and a slap in the face to the military men and women of this nation who served, both previously and presently. The diversity is welcomed, displacement and replacement is nothing more than non-assimilation which does not allow that which is in the pot to melt together into one cohesive, undivided nation. And, that is what you mr governor have, along with your other democrat brothers and sisters under the direction of the last administration and continuing to this day, have encouraged with your ‘nativist’, racist declarations, and fear mongering of hate and divisiveness, not the President who has sleeplessly tried to stress the importance of this nation uniting as AMERICANS, not this type, or that type of individual group pitted against the others. The utopia dysphoria you may believe in and continue to push, is no less dangerous than an all out confrontation between BLM and Neo-Nazis, or whichever groups you feel like citing as a death-match. So, take responsibility for what you and yours have so proudly created. Until you correct your divisive course, there is little hope for the ones you influence to correct theirs- on all sides. jpl