FROM: Joe Waldron (GOAL [goalwa@cox.net])
TO: undisclosed-recipients
SENT: Fri 6/21/2013 4:19 PM
SUBJECT: GOAL Post 2013-SPECIAL 6
Legislative Update from Olympia, 21 June 2013
- SECOND SPECIAL SESSION STARTS
- DEMOCRATS THREATEN GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN
- PRO-GUN COALITION FORMS
- BIDEN BLUSTERS
- BUNDESAMT fur VERFASSUNGSSCHUTZ (BfV)
Ten days into the second special session, same as the
first. Still basically the same deadlock
on the budget. The Democrat-controlled
House demanding more taxes, the Majority Coalition-led Senate (23 Republicans,
two Democrats) sticking with its balanced budget. Some Democrat officials (Governor Inslee?)
have hinted at the possibility of a government shutdown on June 30th, the end
of the current fiscal biennium. Given
that emergency services should remain (my understanding), a shutdown might not
be a bad thing.
No action on firearms.
At least, in the legislature.
Back in 1997, when we were threatened with anti-gun
Initiative 676 -- I-676 -- a coalition was formed to oppose the initiative,
opposition that resulted in a resounding success when the initiative failed
with a 71-29% vote of the people. The
WeCARE (Washington Citizens Against Regulatory Excess) coalition consisted of
national gun rights groups (National Rifle Association and Citizens Committee
for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) and state groups (Washington Arms
Collectors, the Washington State Rifle & Pistol Association and the Gun
Owners Action League of Washington).
Protect Our Gun Rights (POGR) is the new coalition formed to
support pro-gun Initiative 591 to offer it as a reasonable alternative to
I-594, the extremist anti-gun initiative
filed by the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR). Current POGR members are CCRKBA, WAC and
GOAL. Other organizations are expected
to join.
The Protect Our Gun Rights web site is at http://protectourgunrights.net/
Here's a link to both initiatives:
The ballot title and description for I-594 have yet to be
issued.
On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden held a gun control
dog-and-pony show in the White House while the President was in Europe
schmoozing with Vladimir Putin and missing the adoring crowd in Berlin. Biden bragged about the progress made with
President Obama's "23 executive actions" on guns (most purely
administrative), blustered about alleged forward motion in the Senate on the
various gun bills and amendments offered two months ago (but notice Majority
Leader Reid hasn't scheduled another vote) and threatened Senators who paid
more attention to their constituents than to the Obama gun agenda.
(WARNING: More Waldron editorializing, non-partisan in
nature.)
In my previous life I had the privilege of working with
several allied organizations and agencies with a similar mission of
counterterrorism (before terrorism was cool, just individual assassinations,
kidnappings, rocker attacks, bombings, etc).
Among them was the BfV, the Bundesamt
fur Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's national counterintelligence
organization. Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz translates to "Federal Office
for the Protection of the Constitution.
Think about that title for a minute: Office for the Protection of the
Constitution. What a novel concept! I don't know how faithful the BfV is to its
title, but maybe some organizations in this country might want to look at the
concept.
BILL STATUS: All
bills filed in during the regular session are available and may be acted
upon. At this time there are no new gun
bills, nor has there been any action on bills previously filed.
GOAL POSITION ON BILLS: No active gun bills at this time
HEARING(S) SCHEDULED: None
LEGISLATIVE HOT LINE:
You may reach your Representatives and Senator by calling the
Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000.
Toll free!!! The hearing impaired
may obtain TDD access at 1-800-635-9993.
Also toll free!!!
1-800-562-6000 TDD 1-800-635-9993
OTHER DATA: Copies of
pending legislation (bills), legislative schedules and other information are
available on the legislature's web site at "www.leg.wa.gov". Bills are available in Acrobat (.pdf)
format. You may download a free version
of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's web site (http://www.adobe.com). You may also obtain hard copy bills,
initiatives, etc, in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by
calling 1-360-786-7573. Copies of bills
may also be ordered toll free by calling the Legislative Hotline at (800)
562-6000. You may also hear floor and
committee hearing action live at http://www.tvw.org/
(you need "RealAudio" to do this, available free at the TVW web
site).
By reading the House and Senate "bill reports"
(hbr, sbr) for each bill, you can see how individual committee members
voted. By reading the "roll
call" for each bill, you can see how the entire House or Senate voted on
any bill. The beauty of the web site is
that ALL this information is available, on line, to any citizen.
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defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this
section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to
organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men."
Article 1, Section 24
Constitution of the State of Washington
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