According to Dufault, Democratic lawmakers were attempting to attach “a whole other bill” onto , the 2025 legislative amendment to the Parents’ Bill of Rights, and when the Republicans’ motion to respond to this move was denied, Dufault reacted, yelling “you changed the rules, and now you break the rules!” out of turn.

“The speaker broke a rule, and that’s been happening all session long. Broke rules, broke state laws, violated the U.S. and state constitutions,” Dufault said on “The John Curley Show,” on 成人X站 Newsradio. “We were debating the Parents’ Bill of Rights, or the attempt to gut the Parents’ Bill of Rights, and what the Democrats did was they tried to attach a whole other bill to the Parents’ Bill of Rights that would have defunded our public schools if they don’t comply with their woke ideology from OSPI (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction). That’s not allowed under house rules.”

Democratic leadership cited that this wasn鈥檛 Dufault鈥檚 first floor disruption.

“I was not recognized by the speaker, so that was a violation. You’re not allowed to stand up and speak unless you’re recognized by the speaker,” Dufault said. “However, yelling on the House floor is kind of like complaining about there being sand at the beach. I mean, we yell for amendment votes, we yell for points of order. That happens all the time.”

House Bill 1296, which has been highly contested since it was first introduced by lawmakers, revises the way parents are notified about incidents involving their student at school鈥攑articularly regarding the rule that requires parents to be notified if their child is involved in an incident at school to 48 hours and allowing students to keep health decisions private.

“The impact on our state is going to be so significant, OSPI can now withhold 20% of your basic education funding if you don’t comply with their woke ideology,” Dufault said. “Forget that our kids can’t read…but God forbid that a parent wants to see their child’s medical records.”

‘They’ve been lying, and nobody calls them on it’

Dufault’s ban from the House floor led to him working on his legislative responsibilities remotely for the remainder of the session. Dufault said that he was still able to vote and speak remotely, just not allowed to do so from the floor.

“In that moment, I said censorship because that’s what she was doing. I wasn’t violating the rules, so she had no right to gavel me. I had been recognized,” Dufault said. “And then I said, ‘you will not silence the people of Washington state because that’s why we’re there speaking,'” Dufault said. “That’s why we’re entitled to speak because whether or not our desire for the vote or desire for the bill passes, we have the right to speak on that floor.”

The bill passed on a 59-39 vote Thursday. Dufault hopes that what happened to him can serve as a reminder to lawmakers that their role is to serve the public.

“If you control the legislature, you control the ability to undo the initiative process, and you control lawmaking in the state. The Democrats have been breaking the rules,” Dufault told Curley. “They’ve been lying, and nobody calls them on it. I decided I was going to call him on it in that moment.”

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John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio, said that this could be the case, noting that many of those who share posts online could be over-radicalizing the views of the party, giving Republicans a leg up.

“Most people care about…is my kid safe? Am I safe? Do I have a job? Am I making a decent living? Can I afford to buy a house someday?” Curley said. “You know, all that other stuff that you see, because of social media, because of the use of the algorithm, the Republicans don’t have to do a thing. Just put enough people with dyed hair…simply throw them out there and say, well, here you go. These are the Democrats.”

Curley referred to an article in , where reporter Christian Schneider compared the Democratic Party to a farmers market, explaining that Democrats would previously coexist in different kinds of booths, that they “didn鈥檛 necessarily like one another, but they tolerated the strangeness of the coalition because it won elections.”

“Social media, as much as people want to get the word out, is actually causing the party to splinter,” Curley said.

He claimed that social media puts people’s differences on display, forcing the public to see one person’s viewpoint as a symbol for the party.

Repeating history

Curley noted that this happened similarly within the Republican Party as well, recalling the basic philosophy of Pat Buchanan’s Reform Party, which aimed to go “real conservative.” Curley said the creation of this party could be compared to what leaders on the left, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), are trying to campaign for today.

“(Buchanan) said if you had true conservatives, you would win. It’s when you start to move a little bit to the left and try to pick up some of those people, that’s when you lose,” Curley said. “This will be interesting because, right now, AOC is on a tour across the U.S. with Bernie Sanders, and people like talking to her, saying she would make a great president. If we just did the same thing as Pat Buchanan in the 80s, right? If we just got true left? Well, I think it didn’t work for you before, and it certainly won’t work again.”

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John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio, believes college students should absolutely have to pay back their loans.

“This idea that, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t have to pay it back.’ Why not? What about everybody else? Guy takes out a loan for a truck, and he’s got some business. He’s going around putting up drywall or something, or raking up leaves. He’s got to pay the person for the truck. Why would you not? Right? You’re not writing off his loan. Same thing with houses and stuff. Why should we feel sorry for these college students? I have no sympathy at all,” he said.

John Curley: Not paying student loans increases inflation

Curley believes that students not paying their loans increased inflation.

“Now the college student that was paying on average $300, that’s the average college loan payment monthly, they had that extra $300 to spend on something else. So that helped to fuel the inflation,” he said.

Curley also argued that certain majors aren’t valuable.

“In this case, we just give an 18-year-old $50,000, and then you can go major in frisbee tossing, and then, ‘Oh, shocking, nobody wants to hire me. I thought people would want to hire me. I’ve got this degree in American pottery poetry, but apparently there’s no need for that. But I owe $50,000 or I owe $75,000, what am I going to do? Well, I’ll just wait for a person who’s running for president to come along and try to buy my vote by telling me you don’t have to pay it back,'” he mouthed sarcastically.

When asked why does it matter if the person pays back their loans, Curley responded: “You’re only one person, yeah, but if everybody does it, it screws over everybody. You just have the responsibility just to pay it. That’s why I look at it.”

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However, gun rights attorney William Kirk with told “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio Thursday that the bill was expected.

“We saw this one coming from a mile away,” he said. “They tried it last year. Got watered down. It didn’t get watered down this year. So now it’s a reality, and everyone’s been kind of expecting this for a while.”

Senate gun bill would require more intense training

The House passed the bill last month in a 58-38 party-line vote, but the Senate took a different approach鈥攂eefing up the bill, particularly around training.

“So an individual who had the audacity to want to access their Second Amendment rights will need to go through mandatory training, including live-fire training鈥攚hich creates all sorts of issues as I’m not sure how a person could do live-fire training if they don’t have possession of a firearm to begin with鈥攂ut if you do jump through all of those hoops, government will bestow upon you then a permission slip that will then allow you to go to a gun store so that you can purchase a firearm,” Kirk sarcastically explained. “Now, you will have already gone through a background check to get the permission slip, and then you will go to the gun store to go through the exact same background check before you can take possession of that firearm as well.”

John Curley, host of “John Curley,” said there is no data that shows this bill will save lives.

“Absolutely not,” Kirk responded. “And one of the biggest lies they perpetuate is to say that firearms are the number one cause of death for young people. But that’s only if you include 18, 19, and 20-year-olds in the equation, as well. So when they say that it’s the number one leading cause of death of children, that’s actually statistically incorrect.”

Kirk added that when drunk driving happens, no one talks about banning cars or alcohol, but lawmakers continue to bring up banning guns. He believes that Washington Governor Bob Ferguson will sign the legislation, which would then go into effect on May 1, 2027. Kirk also had a message for gun supporters: “Stock up now.”

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“Ok, here’s what happened. The guy came into the country. He’s been in the country illegally, I think he came 11 years ago,” John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show,” said. “He’s got a job, wife, kids, everything.”

The Trump administration alleges Abrego Garcia is a member of the brutal gang MS-13, which he and his supporters deny. Nevertheless, he was deported to El Salvador, his home country. But it was done slightly prematurely, according to the administration.

The Supreme Court issued an order on April 10, 2025, directing the U.S. government to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States because of a previous lower court order keeping him from being sent back to El Salvador. The president of El Salvador indicated this week that he will not return the suspect.

“The government did violate the law. The White House did violate the law when it came to deporting him, because you can deport him, but not to El Salvador, and under what the president is using, this Alien Enemies Act, you don’t have to have due process,” Curley said. “Just grab a whole bunch of people. Oh, you’re on that team? You’ve got these tattoos? You’re a part of that group? Then you’re part of the enemy, so we don’t have to give you due process. We just grab you, sweep you, give you a haircut, and then give you the bum’s rush out of here on the first plane.”

Trump administration digs in

Federal Judge Paula Xinis was very critical of the Trump administration for not complying with a Supreme Court order that requested the White House to “facilitate” the release of Armando Abrego Garcia, 29. In response, Attorney General Pam Bondi made it clear that it鈥檚 “up to El Salvador” to remove Armando Abrego Garcia from El Salvador.

“He is not coming back to our country,” Bondi told on Wednesday.

The聽Trump administration agreed on a $6 million deal with El Salvador to imprison deportees it says are members of the Venezuelan MS-13 gang.

What’s next for Kilmar Abrego Garcia?

“A couple of things. First of all, really?” Curley asked rhetorically. “If the president of the United States turned to this guy, Nayib Bukele (the president of El Salvador), and he was like, ‘I need you in a bear suit on a unicycle, juggling chainsaws.’ ‘Well, I don’t think I would be able to see too well through the bear suit.’ ‘Nope, put it on, get out there, start doing it.’ The guy would do anything. Any one of these people sitting there in the White House will do whatever you want. So to be like, ‘there’s nothing I can do,’ it doesn’t make any sense. The president is saying it’s up to him. No, you’re the president. Go down to the prison and say, ‘hey, find that guy.'”

While an anonymous criminal informant said Armando Abrego Garcia was involved with the MS-13 gang, it has yet to be confirmed. He’s never been charged criminally in the U.S. or El Salvador.

“Trump got elected because he was going to close the border and stop illegal aliens from coming in here and killing people, so he if he goes and caves on this, it just gets down to, how many points does this cost him, right?” Curley said. “How long can he withstand the political, media-driven firestorm of getting this guy home? We’ve already seen the wife on television already, she’s talked about the kids. I think one kid has autism and some other disabilities or something. We’re learning all about this guy and how sad it is for him.

“If he gets killed in that prison in El Salvador, oh my God, then it’s going to be that much more difficult,” Curley added. “I think the president, at this point, is just trying to hold the line because he doesn’t want to cave on this, and is just hoping that he has enough of his populist mojo to weather this storm.”

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, R-Aberdeen, has voiced sharp opposition to the proposed three percent property tax hike. Walsh joined “The John Curley Show” to discuss the proposals and why he thinks they’re so disastrous.聽

“There’s no truth in what they’re saying. They’re going to keep running taxes up until it’s only their core billionaire class that can afford a home in Washington,” Walsh said. “But we need more help from the people of the state.”

Lawmakers spar over property tax reforms

Curley agreed with Walsh, highlighting that the property tax increase could quickly lead to a slippery slope scenario.

“So they opened this can of worms of 1%, and they wanted to be able to move it around, allow it to go up, and each city would be able to raise or lower, whichever one they want,” Curley said. “I know you guys tried to stop this thing. It’s still alive, obviously, this zombie property tax. So what are you hoping to accomplish?”

“Right now, we’ve got an initiative that cuts it down to 0.5%,” Walsh answered. “I mean, we’re trying to follow good negotiating tactics. When they ask for something outrageous on one end, let’s respond with reason.”

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John Curley, co-host of “The John Curley Show”, agreed with RFK Jr. during an episode earlier this week.

“We have a fattening American population, a sick American population, and we are funding it with our money so people can buy junk food,” he said. “It seems like a pretty simple solution: stop funding junk food so we stop making fat people, that we then have to pay for for the problems.”

And when I heard people are on this radio show talking about, ‘Oh, then we should spend the money on Ozempic,'” he continued. “I have an idea, rather than spending on Ozempic鈥攆ix the problem. And the problem is, you’re not getting enough exercise, you’re not eating the right food.”

Food policy experts wary of RFK Jr.’s SNAP proposal

RFK Jr. is encouraging states to explore the idea, which would require federal approval. However, many food policy experts are skeptical that it would significantly improve public health.

“Here’s what RFK Jr. is saying: we are poisoning people, and then we are paying for the effects of the poison,” Curley said. “The amount of money that the U.S. spends every single year on type 2 diabetes, preventable diabetes, is $412 billion. One out of 10 Americans has type 2 diabetes.”

However, even though the proposal is seeing support from some lawmakers, RFK Jr. is facing a large lobbying wall that could cause difficulties.

“RFK Jr is up against a giant lobbying wall that wants that money to keep coming,” Curley said. “But they could get Congress to pass it.”

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On “The John Curley Show” Thursday, Adams County Sheriff Dale Wagner explained why authorities feel stuck between state and federal law and the impact of “fearmongering.”

John Curley, host of “John Curley,” first referenced Wednesday’s congressional hearing, where Wagner said both sides are contributing to fearmongering and that the situation is “very political.”

“Let’s talk about both sides,” Curley said. “So, what’s happening on the right? First, what are they doing to politicize this?”

“It’s not politicizing on the right,” Wagner responded. “It’s basically trying to cure a problem, we have an open border situation that is now being secured. We have people that are coming from all over the world, and that’s the biggest thing that affects my county.”

Adams County sheriff emphasizes ‘fearmongering’ regarding ICE

Wagner added that his county has a large Hispanic population and “fearmongering” is seeping in.

“The right is saying, ‘Hey, we’re trying to fix this problem that has been created over the past few years, and it’s happening,'” he said. “Where the other side, it’s the fear mongering. It’s coming into the small counties like mine, who are high Hispanic population, telling my community that ‘You need to fear that the local law enforcement is going to come and round you up and ICE is coming in with buses, and we’re going to load these people up’ and things like that.”

Wagner said the sheriff’s office works with people in the community who are in the country illegally.

“We actually tell the people, ‘Hey, you’re here illegally, but you have to understand that if you break the law here, that’s what puts you in a bigger light to ICE and local police, and so that’s the fearmongering that goes on from the left,” he shared. “And I think that that’s what has been driving a lot of these issues across the state of Washington and probably other communities.”

The AG’s Office claims that since 2022, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office has consistently defied state law.

“Sheriff鈥檚 deputies have unlawfully held people in custody based solely on their immigration status,” the lawsuit states. “They have gone out of their way to enable federal immigration agents to interview or question people in custody, including transporting people in county vehicles expressly for that purpose. And they have proactively and routinely shared the nonpublic, personal information of hundreds of Washingtonians鈥攊ncluding birth dates, home addresses, driver鈥檚 license numbers, and fingerprints鈥攚ith federal immigration officials. All of this conduct expressly violates state law.”

Washington state law vs. federal law

Wagner rebutted that he has a duty to uphold public safety and argued that Washington state is, in effect, asking the sheriff’s office to disobey federal law.

“The reality is that the law enforcement across the country, no matter where you are, has a responsibility as best that we can to keep people that are harmful to our community in custody, if that’s the case, or at least try and protect them as best we can,” he said.

He added, “The state is saying one thing the federal government says another. And the state’s trying to force us to break, somewhat, of federal law in saying that you can’t give them information. Don’t even answer the phone if ICE calls. Well, that’s just not realistic. That’s not something that we’re able to do. And I don’t believe, in my opinion, I would never speak for another sheriff鈥攂ut the reality is this is probably happening all over the country, and Adams County is being focused on just because of the narrative that’s being pushed to the fear mongering.”

Wagner then questioned the state’s stance, saying he doesn鈥檛 understand the pushback against cooperating with federal authorities.

“When we arrest a bad guy, when they have committed a heinous crime, we want them not to be back in our community, and me personally, I don’t understand why anybody would even fight that,” he said.

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成人X站 Newsradio host John Curley, unsure if this is the right use of city funds, invited , who launched the pilot program, onto “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio to dig into what this treatment center’s expanded access will bring.

“Rather than spending money somewhere else on this sort of stuff, why not get in there and actually get the person who’s got the addiction and get them really, really good treatment?” Curley asked.

“Well, it depends on what you call really good treatment,” Nelson replied. “It turns out there are a lot of politics to substance use disorder policy response. I fall squarely in the camp that if someone is cycling through chronic homelessness, several overdoses…we have got to help get them into treatment sooner rather than later, because if not, then they can change their mind…It doesn’t have to be abstinence-only treatment.”

‘Everybody deserves the same chance at recovery’

Having struggled with alcohol addiction herself, Nelson shared that she has a unique understanding of the challenges of substance abuse.

“My dad was an alcoholic. He tried quitting many, many times, and it wasn’t until he did inpatient treatment that he was able to basically spend the last 20 years of his life sober.” Nelson said.

Nelson even checked herself into an inpatient treatment in 2020.

“I figured I’ve got some time on my hands, why not just go for the method that has the best chance of success? So I checked myself in,” Nelson. “This pilot program that I started is motivated by the notion that everybody deserves the same chance at recovery that I had, period.”

Noting that inpatient treatments are often costly, Curley wondered if providing care to the public would pose a financial burden for the city.

“The barriers are time and money. Because if you don’t have money or insurance…you’re going to be on a waiting list, and that’s where the time kicks in,” Nelson said. “And while you’re waiting for a bed to open up…you could overdose in that interval. So we have to provide access when people are ready to take that step.”

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“Are we getting a better idea of how Ferguson wants to govern the state of Washington?” John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio, asked Washington Representative Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen).

“We are getting a better idea. Here’s the significant difference between Ferguson as governor and his predecessor, whatever his name was, the last governor was a zero when it came to anything involving heavy negotiation,” Walsh responded. “The last governor cared about one thing: Stupid green future mumbo jumbo, and that’s all he cared about. He didn’t care about paying for roads and bridges. He didn’t care about schools. He didn’t care about cops. So when it came to these budget negotiations, he was a complete wet noodle.”

Walsh said Ferguson is approaching the budget much differently.

“What we’re seeing with Ferguson, and this is not a surprise, is he’s a smarter guy than that, and he does have some opinions about the budgets and roads and bridges and schools and cops and all the things, so he’s trying to assert himself more into the negotiations than the previous governor ever did,” Walsh explained.

Gov. Bob Ferguson receiving praise from Republican reps

Ferguson’s decision earned support from Republicans, who have been pushing a budget that avoids taxes with strategic cuts. But Walsh has been urging them to be cautious.

“I’m counseling some of my colleagues not to fall in love too fast,” Walsh, who’s also the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, said. “They need to be careful when they deal with this governor because I’m as or more concerned about the property taxes.”

With the 2025 legislative session approximately two-thirds of the way done, it remains to be seen if a special session will be needed to find a resolution. State Rep. Travis Couture claimed there is a multi-billion-dollar chasm between what Ferguson wants and what lawmakers produced, according to .

How much more will Washingtonians have to pay in taxes?

“Let’s get you on the record on this, how much taxes, not dollars, taxes, will we be paying more this time next year?” Curley asked.

“I will not vote for any, but you’re asking me to step aside from that,” Walsh replied. “The current Democrat proposals add about $15 billion in new taxes. I would estimate they will do everything they can to increase taxes by $3-5 billion.”

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Among the newly announced tariffs is a 34% tax on imports from China and a 20% tax on the European Union. Critics of this plan are concerned this could spiral into a series of trade wars as it might have sprawling ramifications on the global economy.

“OK, a tariff is a tax, and it’s paid for by the people that are buying the stuff. What he wants to try to do is bring domestic production back to the U.S., yeah?” John Curley, host of “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio, said. “In 1980, 19 million workers in the U.S. worked in plants producing stuff. Now, it’s down to 13 million. Does that mean we’re not producing stuff anymore because we’ve lost those people? No, we actually have improved, and we actually have more industry. What we’ve done is we have been able to automate. Now, that’s unfortunate for the people that have been replaced by the computer or the machine, but we’re more effective and more efficient because of our technology. So yes, the big plant that used to employ 30,000 guys is down to 6,000 people because robots are doing the work. That’s just how it works.”

John Curley says he’s not buying Trump tariff arguments

Trump claimed this will bring in hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue after stating the U.S. “has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered” by other nations through the global trade system. His administration levied the tariffs after declaring a national economic emergency.

“Example, the toaster. So the toaster costs $30 and it comes from South Korea,” Curley said. “Rather than doing that, we’re going to put a tariff on the toaster of $3, so now the toaster costs $33. The American citizen goes into Home Depot, and there’s the South Korean toaster for $33, but then he goes, ‘Look, there’s an American-made toaster for $32. I’ll buy the American-made toaster, and I’ll save $1. Well, first of all, that’s complete nonsense because you’re never going to get a toaster made for $32 because there’s no way to produce the toaster in America. And toasters are not suddenly going to be made in America rather than over in South Korea because the cost in order to be able to get all of that going will simply be impossible in the amount of time that he wants to get this thing done.”

“Is this a massive mistake?” Joe Wallace, the producer of “The John Curley Show,” asked.

“Huge mistake, gigantic,” Curley answered. “Because some of these tariffs aren’t going in place until the 10th of April, maybe somebody responds and maybe this is a way of just getting them to cave and bring down the price. And then he can say, ‘Hey, look at this. We brought the price down on these things.’ That’s fine. Good, but this idea that suddenly the tariffs are going to be paid, the government’s going to make so much money on all these tariffs, and then we don’t have to pay any income tax, nonsense. There’s no way you could possibly have enough money to run the country that way.”

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Dufault, an Army Reserve veteran, slammed the state鈥檚 proposed operating budget as a bloated, tax-heavy monstrosity. With $15 billion in new taxes on the table鈥攊ncluding property tax hikes鈥擠ufault warned that working families will be hit hard.

鈥淲e are driving off a cliff,鈥� Dufault said. 鈥淭hese increases will make it harder and more expensive to buy or rent a home in Washington State.鈥�

He鈥檚 particularly incensed by the explosive growth in government since COVID and the wasteful spending that鈥檚 come with it. One of his priorities? Shuttering agencies like the Office of Equity, which he says burns $20 million annually in pursuit of equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 not something government should be doing,鈥� he said.

It’s time for cuts, Dufault says

Dufault also backs proposals to eliminate educational bureaucracy that doesn鈥檛 directly serve students. 鈥淚f you do not have daily direct interaction with students, your office goes away. That money should go to special education and real priorities.鈥�

He praised the Senate Republican budget, which balances without raising taxes by trimming unnecessary spending and restructuring pay increases for state workers. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not that difficult,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he deficit is manufactured.鈥�

As for Governor Bob Ferguson? Dufault鈥檚 鈥渟pidey sense鈥� says tax increases are coming鈥攏o matter what Ferguson claims now.

鈥淗e鈥檒l cave. It鈥檚 just a matter of time.鈥�

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The bill, , would require applicants to complete a certified firearms safety training program within the past five years in order to get the permit, alongside the existing required background checks. The bill has exclusions for police officers and active military servicemembers.

The bill passed on a party-line vote with zero Republican support. According to , one Republican representative claimed this “may be the worst bad bill we鈥檝e seen so far this session.”

“So this bill will save lives,” John Curley said on “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio, mirroring Attorney General Nick Brown’s claims.

“Incorrect,” , president of Washington Gun Law and one of the nation’s leading Second Amendment advocates, retorted. “(Brown) said (there are) 935 homicides in the state of Washington, a number which, by the way, has increased over the years as we passed assault weapon bans and magazine bans and closing gun shell loopholes, all of that. If you take suicides out of it, and then you take away all of the crimes that are committed by individuals who are unlawfully possessing the firearm at the time the crime is committed, I can assure you that number is going to be more like around 35 (homicides), maybe 25, because that is the identifiable problem when it comes to what they want to call gun violence. Are there deaths caused by guns? Absolutely. Unfortunately, a tremendous amount of them are suicides, and that is clearly an issue rooted in mental health.”

Kirk claimed that approximately 75% of the homicides committed in the state are suicides.

“Washington state already has a 10-day waiting period. You could walk into a gun store right now, clear the background check, they’d be like, ‘Great, we’ll see in 10 days,'” Kirk said. “This clearly could add 30, 40, 60 days to that, which, for most people, that’s just a chronological inconvenience, but for a segment of the population, oftentimes abused and battered women who are in terrible situations, the ability or inability to defend themselves during that critical period of time is the difference between life and death. This is not going to save lives. It’s going to cost lives in the long run.”

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According to Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell, the shortage of funds comes from large corporations moving jobs out of the city. He accused the companies of not paying their fair share. But the host of “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio says this payroll tax forecast miss shows you the threat Bellevue poses to Seattle.

“So, over there in Bellevue, when they scare the golden geese across the I-90 bridge, they come running over, and those golden geese set up shop over there in Bellevue,” John Curley said.

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Fain agreed and says the city is happy to accommodate businesses that don’t feel welcome in Seattle.

“You can just look on I-90 and you can see every time the Seattle City Council meets, there’s another stream of cars and U-Hauls heading over across the bridge,” Fain explained to “The John Curley Show.” “You’ve seen about 20% of Amazon’s workforce in Seattle has shifted over to Bellevue since the passage of that jumpstart tax, and that’s just one company. There are others, many that never make a headline, that have made similar choices, and my phone was ringing off the hook in the weeks following that passage, as folks are wondering, ‘Who do we connect with for office space?’ ‘What’s the economic environment really like over there?’ ‘What do we need to know about moving to Bellevue?'”

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Constantine’s term as county executive ends January 1, 2026. He beat out approximately 60 other candidates, including four who were chief executives of other U.S. transit agencies, to become the board’s premier choice to run Sound Transit.

“Sound Transit is a mess. Everybody knows that,” John Curley said on “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio. “For the people that enjoy the delays, there’s been 200-something delays, some including electrical problems. For the 100,000 people who take Sound Transit, they’re concerned because reliability is off.”

Constantine was filed under the name of “Candidate C” until this week, two weeks聽after the committee鈥檚 vote to recommend a candidate occurred.

How much is Constantine set to make?

“Now to the rescue is a guy who, I think, put two or three people on that (Sound Transit Board Executive Committee) board,” Curley said. “He’s got friends, and I guess when it came time to decide who’s going to run Sound Transit, well we need a CEO in here, we need to pay this guy. How much would Dow make?”

“So it’ll be 450 (thousand dollars) initially, which is about a 50% increase over what he’s making now as county executive,” King County Assessor John Wilson said on “The John Curley Show.” “It goes up to 650 (thousand dollars) if the Sound Transit Board falls in love with ‘Dow Transit.'”

Because Constantine appointed three members to the executive committee tasked with selecting a new Sound Transit CEO, multiple outlets and county leaders have cited the conflict of interest.

The board is holding a meeting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, when the hiring vote for Sound Transit CEO is set to take place.

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U-2066 repeals sections of a state law accelerating Puget Sound Energy鈥檚 transition away from natural gas. It was the only one of four initiatives on the November general election ballot to pass, winning by approximately 3.4%. But Widlan ruled that I-2066 violates the Washington state constitution鈥攁greeing with a group of public interest advocates and local governments who sued the State of Washington. The group claimed the initiative makes broad changes, hidden in what was supposed to be a single subject.

Greg Lane, executive vice president of the BIAW, called the ruling “absurd” in an interview with “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio.

“It was a total insult鈥攁s you say to the 550,000 people who signed the initiative to get it qualified and the 1.9 million who voted in favor to make it law in November. This judge ignored every Supreme Court precedent. What she pulled out of thin air to argue that this was a two subject violation was not in the initiative or the new law whatsoever,” Lane said.

Greg Lane: Judge’s ruling on natural gas initiative was ‘condescending’

He said the judge agreed with critics that the title of I-2066 was confusing to voters and was “disrespectful and condescending” to everyone who voted for it.

“They clearly understood what this initiative was about,” Lane added. “And, oh, by the way, the ballot title鈥攚hich had been challenged by the same people who filed this constitutionality challenge previously, last spring鈥攖hey agreed to the ballot title that ended up being on the ballot. So for them to come back and say it was confusing to voters is also just, out of the blue.”

Widlan also argued that the initiative violated the single subject rule. But Greg is calling that out, too.

“What she said was that the first subject was that it would permit the use of natural gas, of course, that’s what the whole initiative was about,” Greg responded. “The second subject, she said, would restrict the state’s ability to address air pollution. There was nothing in the initiative that talked about that. So for her to just pull that out of the air, being the second subject, is completely incorrect and not an accurate reading of the new law.”

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Alesha Perkins, an Olympia School District parent who reports teacher conduct, shared her experience working with the school board on “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio.

“The pattern I see actually involves not wanting to involve law enforcement,” Perkins said.

She explained that in 2020, the school board removed all the school resource officers.

“There has been a pattern that I’ve seen where things that really should involve law enforcement, with reporting, involving them, threats of weapons, things like that, are not being properly called in,” Perkins said.

Former teacher Jonathan J. Moore, 35, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in Thurston County Superior Court on Friday. He had initially been charged with child molestation, second-degree sexual misconduct with a minor and communication with a minor for immoral purposes. However, Moore鈥檚 plea allowed him to maintain his innocence while pleading guilty to an amended charge to avoid a potentially harsher outcome.

The judge in the case followed the prosecutor鈥檚 recommendation and gave Moore a first-time offender waiver and credit for time served, avoiding prison.

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Perkins shared that her daughter had Moore as a teacher.

“This teacher had been in the district from 2016 to 2022; my daughter actually had him at Jefferson Middle School,” she said. “He was kind of described at that point in time as odd, socially awkward, a little bit creepy. But I did not know the extent of what was going on until the arrest, which I was made aware.”

Perkins explained that there were multiple complaints against him from 2021 to 2022.

“It’s important for people to understand that they never contacted law enforcement, so what they did is an internal investigation, and by June of 2022, they ended up placing Mr. Moore on administrative leave,” she said.

Perkins said her experience working with the school board hasn’t been easy, and she hopes people will be motivated to vote when the time comes.

“It does feel like an uphill battle,” she said. “I do acknowledge and give them credit. These positions are elected. So, people really need to start, we have a small amount of people that are voting, but people need to get involved and understand how much power a school board has over the entire school district and start getting involved.”

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The response? 643 comments from readers ranged from agreeing with Westneat to fervently denying his claims. It got so contentious that The Seattle Times put a warning over the comment section to keep them from becoming too hostile.

“This story has gotten a lot of reported comments, so I鈥檓 checking in to remind everyone to stay civil,” The Seattle Times staff wrote. “From here on, any comments that egregiously violate our policies may result in an immediate suspension or ban, without warning. We may also close this comments section if bad behavior continues.”

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The host of “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio had strong reaction to both the column and the responses.

“This is getting away from your sort of mindset and being able to say, ‘OK, if this guy is legitimate, and he does want to triangulate and get something done with those on the right and those on the left, we are all better served,” Curley said. “Because if you are Republican, you know, in the state of Washington, you are often outnumbered. If you can get a governor in there to do a little bit of horse-trading, we would all be better served for it. If it ends up that the new governor of Washington is more responsible with your tax dollars, we would all be better served. So we’ll see if this is true. We’ll find out, because at a certain point, coming up in a few weeks, some tough decisions in the state of Washington will need to be made.”

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Trump has fluctuated on his tariffs, deciding to pull back on a plan that would have doubled U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and metal imports to 50% mere hours after initially proposing it when the Canadian province of Ontario threatened a 25% surcharge on electricity for multiple U.S. states in the northeast. Ontario has since suspended its new electricity charges.

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With the whiplash of political decisions creating economic uneasiness, 成人X站 host John Curley tried to make sense of Trump’s strategy.

“It’s like the old Muhammad Ali,” Curley said on “The John Curley Show.” “So Muhammad Ali’s theory was, I’m going to just lay in against the ropes. I’m just going to put up and block the punches (). And he took some huge punches. Even Foreman said, ‘I hit him so hard. I’ve never hit anybody that hard before. I couldn’t believe he was still standing.’ Well, Muhammad Ali took a wicked body shot that he carried with him for the rest of his life. Even Ali said, ‘Man, that hurt,’ but all he thought was if I can just last a certain number of rounds, he will punch himself out, and then once he’s out of gas, that’s when I’ll take him apart.

“So Trump says I’m going to do all these tariffs, then everything gets all stirred up, and then the fear of a recession and the market and all this other stuff, those are the punches that he’s now taking,” Curley continued. “Do you then bring people to the table to try to renegotiate some of the current trade agreements between Canada and Mexico? I don’t know, but people say he’s playing 4-D chess. I don’t think the guy’s doing that.”

Trump’s tariffs vs. McKinley’s tariffs

Trump has frequently cited President William McKinley, dubbing him the “Tariff King,” as a resource and example for tariffs being productive for the country and its economy, and that the tariffs the current Republican Party has drawn up will make “the lives of our countrymen sweeter and brighter” and that the tariffs are going to “make us very rich and very strong, and we will use the hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff dollars to benefit the American citizens and pay down our debt.”

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“Oh my God, you can’t compare the two economies anymore,” Curley said, reminding everyone McKinley served as president from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. “Only 2% of the U.S. government’s revenue comes from tariffs. And now, if you want to build something, it takes, I don’t know how many countries to build it. We’re not just simply building these things on our own. And Trump’s idea, which I keep thinking he believes, is that we’ll have high tariffs, and then we’ll start manufacturing everything here. Well, what’s it going to cost? How much capital? How much investment would it take?”

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of explained on “The John Curley Show” on 成人X站 Newsradio that ActBlue is under increased scrutiny, especially following and allegations of suspicious transactions.

“The concern, of course, is that foreign countries and NGOs or government grants were illegally funneled through different organizations and then using people’s name against their knowledge and address,” Morgan explained.

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Morgan decided to check on some of the donations made through ActBlue out of Washington state.

“What we started to do about a year and a half ago is we started downloading their historic database every single day, and we were going to file some complaints. So one of the things we realized is that even the historic data, it just keeps radically changing by millions and millions of dollars, multiple times a day. And these are in cases that there should be nothing happening anymore. Those campaigns should be closed out,” Morgan explained.

He suspects “computers, algorithms probably, and maybe AI now were just radically changing the database so that there was no way for you to kind of file a complaint.”

“It’s a really shady operation, and the exposure right now is obviously generating more attention than it has been in the past,” Morgan explained.

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