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Highlights from AWB’s (@awbolympia) Twitter feed.
Appreciate our guests from @lniwa &
@awbolympia for joining us to discuss
@WACounties labor issues. My goal for the week. Read the full 718
page House budget before it is adopted.
#raceagainstheclock #waleg
Derek Young, Pierce County Council member
(@DerekMYoung), March 14 Jason Mercier, the Washington Policy Center
(@OlympiaWatch), March 26
Thank you to Rep.
@NoelFrame &
Rep. Ed Orcutt
for sponsoring
SHB 1403, which
simplifies local
Business &
Occupation taxes for employers. AWB members
(including Scott Edwards of @lanepowell &
Rachel Lemieux) worked alongside @AWCities
to craft a solid solution. Great work! #waleg
AWB (@AWBOlympia), March 19
Thanks @awbolympia for all of
your work and collaboration.
Candice Bock, government relations
director, Association of Washington
Cities (@AWC_Candice), March 20
Learning about
Japan’s power
for partnership,
investment, trade
and innovation
with Washington
state industries
@awbolympia
#AWBinJapan @SeattlePartners @AlaskaAir
@SBCTCWashington @WAStateCommerce
@WashingtonGrain @JAL_Official_jp
Diana Birkett Rakow, VP External Relations, Alaska
Airlines (@BirkettRakow), March 19
Proud to have represented
farm families during
AWB’s Trade Mission in
Japan - strengthening
relationships
between two major
trading partners. https://www.awb.org/
olympia-business-watch/?bid=20201
The McGregor Company (@themcgregorco), March 28
Fired up for the
@PaidLeaveWA bill signing
on House Bill 1399 - it does
technical corrections to an
already awesome piece of
legislation and makes it even
better! Thx @gruberobinson
for your stewardship and
@awbolympia @AvistaUtilities @WAAFLCIO
for your partnership!
Employment Security Department Commissioner Suzi
LeVine (@ESDCommish), April 3
Best line of the year goes to @cyrushabib
“Sen Sheldon even I can see you are present.”
Then-Sen. Guy Palumbo, D-Maltby
(@SenatorPalumbo), April 17
Thanks,
@awbolympia,
for giving us the
opportunity to hear
Nikki Haley speak
last night. It was a
wonderful event!
Out of the Box Manufacturing (@OBMFG), May 9
Proposed overtime rule would create “a new
super minimum wage,” says @awbolympia
leader, warning of unintended consequences.
Opportunity Washington (@OpportunityWA), June 6
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