To: Liv Finne @ Washington Policy Center #3

“WEA union is seeking protection from COVID-19 budget cuts”
5.24.20
I hope this comment finds you well and surviving in these uncertain times.
I couldn’t help wondering…..?  Does someone else write you article’s headlines?  I believe I’ve mentioned this before.  At issue is the disparity between the assertions in the headline and those that are documented in the article.  This headline plainly claims that WEA has taken proactive measures to insure their recently legislated benefits are not subject to the inevitable cuts that will be coming down the line.  However, your blog posting does not support that assertion. 
In the text of your blog posting, you mention WEA three times.  Let’s look at each quote:  
“Favored groups that benefit from this public spending, like the powerful WEA union, no doubt would like to “shelter in place” when it comes to budget pain.”  
You said WEA “no doubt would like to ‘shelter in place’...  “Would like to” is not “seeking protection”.  
“ For the WEA union to avoid participating in cuts is a slap at unemployed people and the hardworking taxpayers of our Washington state.”
You haven’t yet established that WEA is seeking to “avoid participation, so your conclusion here is unwarranted.
“The education budget should be considered along with all other spending, because there is no reason the WEA union should get special treatment.”
Again, you haven’t established that they are seeking “special treatment”. 
For a person who makes a living analyzing events and documents and writing about them, you seem to enjoy misrepresenting the facts and then arguing against those facts, even thought they’re not yet in evidence.

None of this would exist, if your headline had accurately represented your posting. 

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