As an active senior citizen, working for years to make our communities stronger and healthier, I must speak up loudly about four statewide initiatives that will send us back to darker, meaner days.

Brian Heywood, a millionaire hedge fund manager from California, funded all four deceptive statewide initiatives that will be on our November ballot. These initiatives will give a tax cut to big oil corporations and the wealthy, and keep the bill shifted onto working families and seniors. These MAGA-like initiatives will slash funding for childcare and schools, repeal the Climate Commitment Act and other protections for clean air and water, and bankrupt the WA Cares program for seniors and people with disabilities.

We have made progress in our state to care for our kids, our environment, and our folks who need long-term care. Most of us care about each other and our life on this precious planet. Our current political majority reflects that care by having these policies in place.

As caring Washingtonians, we need to move forward with our progressive policies, and not allow an out-of-state guy and his buddy (Jim Walsh, who is the MAGA state Republican Party chair) to rescind them to go backwards; to just help the wealthy. Isn’t greed one of the deadly sins? How about lying?

Vote no on I-2109, I-2117, I-2124, and I-2066.

Karen Guzak

Snohomish