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Rebel Radio Behind the Wire

The official podcast of the Washington 3%

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Protecting Our Kids and Our Paychecks: Washington’s Moral and Financial Crisis

Defending the Homefront: Staying Prepared for Protests, Shutdowns, and Storms

Freedom Under Fire: Exposing Washington’s Political Failures, Tax Hikes, and Government Overreach

Washington’s Billion-Dollar Cover-Up: Taxpayers Forced to Fund State’s Corruption and Incompetence

Washington’s Education Crisis: Test Scores, Common Core Failures, and Real Solutions

Washington’s Record Gas Prices and King Co’s Misspelled Excuses: A Call for Real Accountability

Gluesenkamp Perez Claims Active Shooter Drills Cause Too Much Stress, Proposes Parental Opt-Out

This episode of Behind the Wire on Rebel Radio discusses proposed transportation and general budget increases and accompanying tax increases in the Washington State Legislature. Host Rob Burrell criticizes the proposed increases as excessive and unsustainable, especially given the existing state budget deficit. He argues that the proposals demonstrate fiscal irresponsibility and unfairly burden taxpayers, while failing to address underlying issues like poor educational outcomes and inefficient state government operations. He urges listeners to contact their representatives and senators to oppose the proposals.

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Parents Bill of Rights, Gutted by Democrats

Democrats are gutting a voter run initiative that passed last year giving parents more rights when it comes to their kids and schools.

Are you tired of this yet?

Washington Senate Democrats on Wednesday approved changes to an initiative passed last year that establishes a parental “bill of rights” for families with children in the state’s K-12 schools.
When lawmakers passed Initiative 2081 last year, Democrats said that they would likely need to make changes to it in the future, citing confusing language that did not align with other state and federal laws.
Senate Bill 5181, which passed out of the Senate on party lines, is their attempt to fix it.
But Republicans see the changes differently, saying that they undermine the voters who signed onto the initiative and could take away parents’ rights to access information about their children.
The initiative gave parents the ability to review school materials like textbooks and curricula, opt their child out of assignments involving questions about sexual experiences or religious beliefs, and gain access to all of their child’s medical and mental health records.

Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, said they have already alerted Gov. Bob Ferguson that they will be sending amendments to the initiative to him soon.
Ferguson said Wednesday that he has not looked at the parental rights legislation yet. “We’ve got our hands full on a range of issues,” he said.

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HB 1696: Covenant Homeownership Program

The Covenant Homeownership Program (Program) provides down payment and closing cost assistance to first-time homebuyers who are part of an economically disadvantaged class of persons identified in a Program study. The Program is funded through a $100 document recording assessment that is deposited into a dedicated Program account. The Legislature may appropriate moneys in the Program account to the Department of Commerce (Commerce) for costs related to the Program. Commerce must contract with the Washington State Housing Finance Commission (Commission) for the creation of one or more SPCPs to provide down-payment and closing-cost assistance to Program participants. At minimum, an SPCP authorized under the Program must provide loans that can be combined with other forms of down payment and closing cost assistance, require Program participants to repay loans for down payment and closing cost assistance at the time that the house is sold, and be implemented in conjunction with the Commission’s housing finance programs. To be eligible to receive down payment and closing cost assistance through an SPCP authorized as part of the Program, an applicant must have a household income at or below 100 percent of the area median income (AMI), be a first-time home buyer, and be a

Washington resident who: was a state resident on or before the enactment of the FHA on April 11, 1968, and was or would have been excluded from homeownership in Washington by a racially restrictive real estate covenant on or before that date; or is a descendant of a person who meets that criterion.

The initial Program study was published in March 2024, and recommended implementing an SPCP for economically disadvantaged households with Black, Latino, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Other Pacific Islander, Korean, or Asian Indian borrowers. The initial Program study also recommended that the new SPCP should provide down payment assistance as a zero-interest loan, and provide customized amounts of down payment assistance that would enable households with incomes between 80-100 percent of the AMI to afford a modest-cost home in their county. Some of the other recommendations were to consider expanding eligibility to impacted residents with incomes up to 140 percent of the AMI and to consider alternative repayment approaches, such as forgiving all or some portion of the assistance amount over time.

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Rebel Radio Behind the Wire EP2: Raises for Politicians & Judges

Do you think they deserve a raise? Also in this episode, using your tax dollars to pat for anti 2A events in Washington.

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Rebel Radio Behind the Wire EP 1: HR 1399
HR 1399 would allow the state to desertify any duly elected Sheriff and replace them with one they see fit. This is unconstitutional.

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