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Every week, it seems there’s a contest between the states on the West
Coast, Messed Coast™ to out-woke each other, and this week is no
different.

Washington leads the way again this week, with Democrats doing everything
in their power to kill business and get rid of the riff raff normies by
making it so expensive that people will be forced to leave.

Things are looking up for black Washingtonians, however. Free down
payments for houses!

Oregon’s two-tiered school system is in full flower with astonishing race- based spending.

And did you hear the one about California Gov. Gavin Newsom promising to
get rid of gas and now pretends to wonder what happened to all the
refineries? Weird, that.

Let’s get started.

And YOU get a house!
This week, Washington State Democrats approved a race-based free down
payment bill giving black and other minorities forgivable (free) $120,000
down payments with 0% financing to buy a home. These are housing
reparations pure and simple. Reparations, if you will, for people who have never suffered from housing discrimination.

Related: West Coast, Messed Coast™ City to Become ‘Sanctuary’ for Men Who
Dress as Women

The effort to give away free down payments began with a bill in 2023 establishing the so-called Covenant Homeownership Plan. It was “intended”
to create "a new program and funding source to help people who have been impacted by this discrimination to become homeowners.”

But this week, the true intentions of the program were revealed by the Democrats as the program was “modified” to give away free money to blacks
and other minorities — including Koreans and Pacific Islanders — for a
down payment for a home.

There is no requirement that any recipient show that they’ve been
discriminated against.


Unrealized leadership
In last week’s West Coast, Messed Coast™ report, your humble correspondent reminded you of Oregon’s profligate spending and taxing.

In Washington, as the allegedly cash-strapped state is set to give away millions in free money for home buyers to “make right” the discrimination
in housing that recipients never experienced, taxes will be going through
the roof for all people, but especially those who have assets.

See the symmetry?

Washington’s wealth tax already scared away Jeff Bezos.

Now Democrats want to tax unrealized capital gains.

This means that Democrats in HB 5797 propose taxing ownership of stocks,
bonds, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds, making the mere ownership,
not sale of these assets, a taxable event.

Kamala Harris proposed such a tax when she ran for president, but if HB
5797 passed, it would make Washington the first state to do it.

Related: Here's the Perfect Solution for Sending Joe Biden's Hordes of
Illegal Voters Back Home

Rich people get it today, everyone gets it tomorrow.

GOP leader Jim Walsh lists the rest of the taxes Democrats want to take
out of the peoples' hides. Note the gas tax increase which would make Washington the highest or second highest (looking at you, California)
state with the highest gas taxes.

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Democrats also want to tax dating apps. They allege that all of the
domestic violence problems in the state can go away with just one more
tax. The added benefit for Democrats is that it would give them an entree
into taxing all apps on residents' phones.

How can the state, on one hand, hand out free money for housing down
payments while, on the other hand, stick all residents with new taxes? You
know the answer.

Race-based school funding
Our friends over at the august Cascade Policy Institute explain in
shocking detail how race-based funding for schools is an abysmal failure
and contrary to civil rights law.

Oregon's governor, the unfortunately-named Tina Kotek, held a presser this month to pound a podium to say that President Trump is an ogre and
announce that she'll stop him from discriminating against people. Not that
he's ever called for discrimination, but she's got to look like she's
doing something, and Orange Man Bad.

But as Cascade's John Charles points out, Portland has been discriminating against students for more than a decade, with disastrous results, and in contravention of civil rights laws:

For the past decade, the Portland Public School district has been
providing extra funding to schools in part on the basis of race...

Students who are Black, Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander are automatically characterized as “historically underserved,” which means the schools they attend receive more money. This is true even if their parents
are rich and the students themselves are high achievers.

For the current school year, the elementary school receiving the most
generous fundingis Rosa Parks, with $17,891 per student. The school with
the least amount of funding is Richmond, at $7,649. At the high school
level, Jefferson receives $15,812 per student, while Grant gets $8,109.

Where's Tina Kotek on this discrimination?

Charles believes the Trump Administration's Justice Department could have
a big discrimination case over this lopsided, race-based funding.

Newsom shocked about shortage of refineries
A guy used to say on my radio show that if it were not for double
standards, lefties would have no standards at all.

The duplicitous and preening Gavin Newsom is now pretending to be startled
that yet another refinery is planning to shut down. He issued a
duplicitous and preening letter to reassure the public that he's doing everything to make sure ... blah, blah, blah. In this case, blah, blah,
blah means that he's been prosecuting a war on gas cars, which results in spiking gas taxes and prices, and now he wants to look like he has the
best interests of Californians at heart. Oy.

California gas taxes are as notorious as Washington's. While the Democrat leaders blame corporate greed for the prices, the taxman actually makes
far more per gallon than do oil companies. Who will Newsom blame when
Valero Energy's Benicia refinery is shuttered or repurposed one year from
now?


Since Newsom has been in office he has applauded while the following
refineries have left, shuttered, or gone off line.

Valero Benicia Refinery: Announced it will shut down by April 2026,
removing 170,000 barrels per day of capacity.
Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery: Scheduled to close by the end of 2025, removing 139,000 barrels per day.
Marathon Martinez Refinery: Closed in 2020, resulting in the loss of about
750 jobs.
Phillips 66 Santa Maria Refinery: Closed in 2023 as part of a transition
to renewable fuels.
Phillips 66 Rodeo Refinery: Converted to renewable diesel, ceasing
traditional gasoline/diesel production.
Related: Yet Another Example of What Democrats Assured Us Wasn’t Happening Really Was the Whole Time

In the late 1970s, California had as many as 50 refineries, and now it's
down to seven.

Speaking of flushing money down the toilet
Newsom has also been a no-show in the battle to solve the international
sewage incident at the border with Mexico. This decades long problem as I report on in Mexico's 'Nutty Chunk Sewage' Issue Is an Environmental
Disaster for the U.S. isn't just a problem for beach goers it has now
become a national security issue as I wrote here: Mexico's Sending More
Sewage Across the Border, and It's Becoming a Big U.S. National Security
Issue.

The EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has taken up the issue, but California
has been given $700 million to begin improvements to the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant.

In fairness, Newsom did buy some booms to halt the flow of plastics down
the Tijuana River, but nothing yet for the poop our Navy SEALs swim in.

Crucible
This week, another class of U.S. Marines made it through "The Crucible" in
San Diego. I know the families of two of those new Marines. One is the son
of my friend, Mike Rosen, who was "Our Man in Fallujah" on my radio show
in Portland. The other is a grandson of our dear friends in our weekly
Bible study.


Recruiting is up.

Semper Fi, Marines and Marine families. Oorah.

WCMC moments in higher learning
My radio colleague Jason Rantz writes that the Washington State University instructor Patrick Mahoney, who physically attacked Jay Sani, a student,
off campus for wearing a "Trump 2024: Take America Back" hat, has been arrested.

Now we learn the instructor and another university employee, who police
say was an accomplice, have been fired.

Related: Oregon Prosecutor: Immigration Status Doesn’t Bear on Attempted
Murder Case

Seattle-based independent reporter Jonathan Choe reports that this wasn't
the first assault Mahoney had been involved in. He discovered video
showing him in 2016 assaulting right-wing podcast host Alex Jones.

They haven't ruined everything—yet
Big Sur, California.

The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.

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