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Senator Adam Kline: A bad day for the democratic process | Seattle Education

Senator Adam Kline: A bad day for the democratic process | Seattle Education:

Senator Adam Kline: A bad day for the democratic process

Senator Rodney Tom, the League of Education Voters and Nick Hanauer on one side of the aisle. the rest of us on the other.

How can these people on one hand talk about helping the “poor minorities” by pushing charter schools in neighborhoods that none of these folks would live in and on the other hand push for and applaud a budget that would cut food and medical assistance to the same families who need it the most, the same families that Rodney Tom said “we have to do something” for?

Senator Rodney Tom joined the Republicans in the State Senate in voting for a striker amendment to Senate Bill 5967 that makes sweeping budget cuts that jeopardize the lives and well-being of Washington’s children and