OK, you win, I give up! (Almost...)

Greetings-
It's been a couple of months since I wrote anything. I'll try and explain. The last time I made an entry I had just met with my second legislator and I had one more to go. Well, I've finally met with all three reps from my district. Although I found all of them to be pretty nice individuals in a one on one situation, when they go to Olympia and form a herd, it's like Jeckyl and Hyde literally.
After all their talk about how much they care and how they feel our property taxes are out of control, there will be absolutely no meaningful reform or mercy for taxpayers from this legislative session. What a total waste of time on my part. I could have been playing with my grandkids, or visiting with my wife or petting my dog instead of wasting my time listening to their crap. I feel hoodwinked, angry and just generally frustrated.
It's become very apparent to me that the ONLY thing the legislators, in general, care about is power and being re-elected. If you're not a lobbyist or a big donor to their campaigns, your opinion to them means absolutely nothing. Every person I know feels they're being reamed by taxes in general and property taxes in particular. But still the legislature doesn't give a rat's butt about whether or not they tax you out of your home.. It really is time to get rid of every cowardly, backstabbing, tax raising slimeball in our legislature. They know who they are and so should you.
In the last three months I have tried to have a positive attitude and have tried to work within the system. I have met for at least an hour with each of my legislators, I wrote an 800 word guest columnist article on property taxes for my local paper, I started this blog, I helped with the anti-tax rally in Olympia, I went to a property tax forum at our community center. What a fool I was. I actually believed that if your cause was just and sincere that one person could make a difference. Well no more. I'm smarter now.
Our legislature, once they're all snuggled up in their marble palace in Olympia, is a bad joke. I now fully believe that all most of our legislators want to do is tax, tax, tax and then tax some more. Our bi-annual budget has increased 33% in two years and there is no end in sight. Governor Gregoire has added literally thousands and thousands of new state jobs. The definition I still like most of politics is "poli meaning many and "tics' meaning blood sucking parasites. It's never been more true. At this point, every tax increasing legislator in Olympia had better watch out. Someday, somehow, the general public will wake up and throw the bums out. Maybe someday we'll actually have a majority of politicians with courage and vision, but probably not in our lifetime. I'm done with politicians. Our system is broken. Maybe beyond repair.
However there is some hope on the horizon. The League of Washington Taxpayers(21,000 strong), headed up by a noble and decent man named Wynn Cannon is working on an initiative that would force the powers to be to reduce property taxes 25% across the board. I and many other people will be working our tails off to make this happen. Since the legislature won't do a damn thing thing, once again it will be up to the people to rise up, get involved, and force our legislators to take action or go home and let someone who cares have a chance. Apparently they're just too ignorant or too pig-headed to get the message voters sent in the last election. That is that we're fed up. We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.
More to come, be well, Pat