Free-spending politicians in the state of Washington
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation in Olympia, Washington, is a free-market, limited government think tank. During each legislative session, they publish a Hey! Big Spender! index that is chock-ful of bloggy goodness. They keep careful track of the “total increased taxes and fees proposed by each individual legislator” as primary or co-sponsor, over the next ten years, if their sponsored legislation all passed.
It ain’t chicken feed. The biggest spender right now, Democrat senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles, would like the good people of her state to pay $214,269,175,298 in additional taxes over the next ten years. You know, that is a lot of money. Billions. $214 of those billions.
Do the bloggers of the state of Washington use this information in their blog posts? I did a Technorati search for Jeanne Kohl-Welles and came up dry.
Why is this? Could it be that, as with so many blogs published by organizations with paid staffs, like the EFF’s Liberty Live blog, they don’t link out to the homegrown, native, volunteer bloggers in Washington? Like Sound Politics or the Mad Blogger or the Parkenfarker Group?
Blogs: Give them some link-love, and they’ll give you some coverage. It’s not that hard.
April 19th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
As insignificant as I and others in my group are, I am always surprised to find that my site is even noticed outside of my target audience.
Holy Smokes…