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  • Baumgarter all over the map about Ukraine

    Norm Luther|Updated Apr 2, 2025

    Michael Baumgartner is, figuratively speaking, “all-over-the-map” about Ukraine—but effectively supporting Russia. He agrees that Russia clearly started the war and was/is the aggressor, and he’s assured Thrive International Ukrainian refugees that he opposes their deportation. But he completely undercuts that by his Ritzville Town Hall statement, “I don’t think [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy is doing a great job”, and by his outlandish calls for Zelenskyy to resign after President Donald Trump humiliated Ze...

  • Baumgartner lacks foreign policy expertise

    Norm Luther|Updated Mar 5, 2025

    Has U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner, no nation-wide condemnation and world apology for how President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance humiliated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Feb. 28? Baumgartner’s subsequent call for Zelenskyy’s resignation makes no sense, given his statement that Russia clearly started the war and has been the aggressor. On second thought, it makes great sense considering his already evident cowardice in standing up to Trump, Vance and Elon Musk. Baumgartner certainly lacks the spine of P...

  • Baumgartners silence on Trump

    Norm Luther|Updated Feb 6, 2025

    Spokesman-Review’s February 2 lead article described the deafening silence from congressional Republicans, true of our new US Representative Michael Baumgartner, in their response to Donald Trump’s unprecedented destructive and dangerous executive orders during his first two weeks in office. This silence was especially evident in Baumgartner’s long January 31 Email message, his first to constituents since Trump’s orders commenced. So is Baumgartner closely following in the steps of his predecessor, Cathy McMorris Rodgers...

  • Give students own union

    Norm Luther|Updated Aug 13, 2024

    One of six initiatives introduced by Republican-allied group Let’s Go Washington, Initiative 2081 gave parents and guardians of school children certain rights, including the right to examine textbooks, curriculum and any supplemental materials used in their children’s classrooms. Although that’s innocent language, the 2024 Democratic-majority state Legislature was understandably suspicious. So, it passed a similar parental “bill of rights” that removed the initiative from the upcoming Nov. 5 ballot. Two other initiativ...