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Editorial: Inslee Agenda Seeks to Destroy Even More Small Businesses

Editorial: Inslee Agenda Seeks to Destroy Even More Small Businesses

January 11, 2021 Last Edit: March 4, 2025

Editorial: Inslee Agenda Seeks to Destroy Even More Small Businesses

“This week’s announcement of a new, incomplete and unworkable ‘reopening plan’ again demonstrates the governor’s indifference, if not hostility, toward small businesses,” wrote NFIB State Director Patrick Connor in a guest editorial that ran in the January 10 issue of The Spokesman-Review.

“And, we now know he has no intention of finally retiring his arbitrary and pernicious proclamations that have already shuttered tens of thousands of Main Street enterprises, many permanently.”

Click the graphic below to read the entire guest editorial.

 

 

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