The Spokane Record

Tonight I read this in the Spokesman Review about the Envision Spokane Community Bill of Rights Initiative, Proposition 4. –  “[t]ogether, the two campaign committees have raised more than $275,000.”  See Jim Camden here.

What an extraordinary waste of money.

The opponents should not have spent a nickel. The initiative is clearly, and I mean clearly, illegal.  It is illegal because it violates the single subject rule of the charter of the city of Spokane.

So why are people spending so much money?

I suppose it is due to the fact that people have the notion that the judicial system is not a judicial system at all but rather a system of political favor. If the opponents had confidence in the judicial system they would have assurance that Prop. 4, if passed, would be declared illegal. 

The opponents, if they had any respect for the judicial system and expected the judicial system to follow the law would, likewise know spending money to enhance passage of the proposition would likewise be a waste of money — they too would agree that the initiative (Prop. 4) was illegal.

I suppose, since nothing can be predicted these days when looking at what the legal system will do,  it makes sense that people ho simply want something or do not want something together would spend $275,000 or more regarding a  clearly illegal ballot measure.  No one wants to take the risk — after all the matter could win and the court could say it was legal, was not in violation of the single subject rule.

The money spent is significant in that it is a statement concerning people’s notions of the predictability of the decisions to be made by members of the state’s judicial fraternity.   I fear we have grown up to be little children without a clue as to how the real world works.

See this.

Yesterday I talked to a father of a young man, a helicopter pilot, who is on his way to Afghanistan. The father tells me that the son thinks that he and his fellow soldiers and pilots are being sent to Afghanistan without having the proper equipment installed on their helicopters. Yesterday, I also read a story in the Washington Times wherein it was reported that money had been taken from the military budget for non-to military purposes such as libraries for deceased senators. If what I learned yesterday from the father and from the Washington Times is true our nation is in serious moral trouble.