Hour 2: GUEST - Brian Heywood - Lets Go Washington suing WA AG

In this episode of The John Curley Show, host John Curley interviews Brian Heywood of Lets Go Washington, who is leading a legal challenge against Washington State Attorney General Steve Hobbs over the use of an emergency clause to block a referendum on repealing the state's income tax. Despite nine previous voter rejections of income tax, the legislature passed the tax with an emergency designation, effectively preventing public referendum. Heywood argues this undermines democracy and violates the original intent of the state constitution, filing a writ of mandamus to force the Washington State Supreme Court to hear the case by April 30th. The episode also covers a local story in Tacoma where a homeowner, Sean, endured years of suffering due to a meth house across the street, only to see the suspect released on $1,000 bail after a successful raid led by new Sheriff Patty Jackson. Curley expresses outrage over the judicial leniency, linking it to broader systemic failures. He then shifts to a critique of poverty statistics, arguing that the official 12% poverty rate is misleading because it ignores $45,000 in government transfers, which would reduce the real poverty rate to 3%. He contends that welfare dependency discourages work and perpetuates cycles of dependence. Finally, Curley attacks the Climate Commitment Act (CCA), asserting it has raised gas prices by 50 cents without reducing CO2 emissions, and criticizes media silence on the connection between the CCA and fuel costs.