OLYMPIA… Senators Linda Evans Parlette and Janéa Holmquist, along with their House counterparts, Representatives Bruce Chandler and Cary Condotta, today released their Paid Family Leave Task Force minority report. The failure of the majority party to follow their own law requiring the final report of the task force to be available by Jan. 1, 2008 for public review prompted Republican members of the task force to provide their own analysis of the entitlement program.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has been consistent and clear that, under the Constitution's First Amendment, once government admits one religious display or viewpoint onto public property, it may not discriminate against the content of other displays, including the viewpoints of nonbelievers."
- Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) and Attorney General Rob McKenna (R) in a joint statement Wednesday on an anti-religion billboard on display at the state Capitol.