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Elector reform isn’t green

Thu., April 25, 2013

How green is Gov. Jay Inslee? Not green at all based on a bill he will no doubt sign to compensate presidential electors. Seventy-seven dollars a day for lodging? What kind of room do they need just to cast a vote for president? Forty-six a day for food? What the heck are they eating?

Now, the “green” one: 56.5 cents per mile to travel. That equates to less than eight miles per gallon. That’s what I call green. Your governor really is pushing green, isn’t he? Yes he is; pulling the green right out of our pockets and pushing it into the pockets of other politicians. These payments to the electors are supposed to reimburse them, not line their pockets.

Richard Stapleton

Spokane Valley

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