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Washington's viticulture community is lobbying to allow minors in wine making programs to be able to taste wine, so Dori thinks we should change our state motto to: "Sip...swirl...but don't swallow." (AP Photo)

My new crusade: We need a new state motto!

March 9, 2013 @ 11:28 am (Updated: 10:31 am - 3/10/13 )

Dori writes...

In these divisive times, I've been looking for a cause to champion that can bring together our citizens regardless of their political and social beliefs. I think I have found it.

Don't the people of our state deserve a state motto that reflects our hearty, pioneer spirit?

Other states have great, inspiring mottos:

- Iowa: "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"

- New Hampshire: "Live free or die"

- New Jersey: "Liberty and prosperity"

- West Virginia: "Mountaineers are always free"

And what is the Washington state motto?

"Al-ki" which means "by and by".

By and by? What a wimpy state motto. We need a motto that more accurately reflects the people of our state and our divine leadership in Olympia.

This week, the state legislature moved forward with a bill that will allow 18-to-20-year-olds to taste alcohol in college classes - AS LONG AS THEY DON'T SWALLOW THE BOOZE!!!

As one member of our legislature said: "they will be allowed to savor the wine, as long as they spit it out".

As soon as I heard that, I realized, that would be the foundation for a great new state motto that more accurately reflects our people and these times.

And so, this is my new crusade. I want to change our state motto from "Al-ki" to...

"Washington: Sip...swirl...but don't swallow"

You can take it literally... or you also also interpret it as advice to visitors: "Come enjoy our mountains and rivers - but then, get the heck out!"

It will instantly be the greatest state motto in this great nation of ours. I'll need all the help I can get. Are you with me in my new crusade?

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  • HikerACE wrote...
    Motto
    March 10, 2013 4:30 pm
    Tax and spend, gimme gimme gimme!
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  • chubby wrote...
    I wonder . . .
    March 10, 2013 4:57 pm
    how many times Anne Bremner drove drunk before she was finally caught. Ask her next time you have her on your show, Dori. Hypocrite! And please, please, please start taking phone calls from listeners again. It is torture to listen to you banter with that pea brain producer, Jake. It's talk radio . . . the callers make the show!
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  • Lake Tapps Chris wrote...
    I have to agree with Chubby....
    March 11, 2013 9:04 am
    It IS torture to listen anymore.. We just DON'T as a rule here at work. The first hour works, sorta, but after that it's just repeat and it goes downhill from there. State Motto.. "Washington, where the grass is always greener."
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  • fisher wrote...
    Just add one more syllable.
    March 10, 2013 5:12 pm
    hol as in Al-ki-hol.
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  • Kosh wrote...
    The Real Theme
    March 10, 2013 5:26 pm
    "In Taxes We Love"
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  • Mavila wrote...
    "We're...
    March 10, 2013 5:43 pm
    California without the perks."

    "A great place to be, except for Tacoma."

    "Live free somewhere else!"

    "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to see Joseph Stalin again."

    "A state where you can actually take a nap behind the wheel on our interstate freeways."

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  • Mavila wrote...
    Should be...
    March 10, 2013 7:11 pm
    Vladimir Lenin - the statue in Fremont is what I was going for.
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  • ohyea53 wrote...
    Visit SAY WA We'll tax the snot out of you!!!
    March 10, 2013 7:11 pm
    >
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  • cigarfan wrote...
    "Welcome to the Soviet of Washington"
    March 10, 2013 7:23 pm
    -Workers are respected more in WA than most states.
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  • Mavila wrote...
    The Soviet Union of...
    March 10, 2013 7:51 pm
    King, Pierce and Thurston Counties!
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Just say "NO"
    March 11, 2013 2:15 am
    to Liberalism!
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  • mynorthwester wrote...
    Washington
    March 11, 2013 7:43 am
    Were Dori Monson will make you want to vomit from 12 to 3 every weekday Were people seem to always want to b*tch about there state but for some reason won't leave Were Doris a** clowns AJ, Bill, and his kiss a** producer Jake will be there promptly to stroke his inflated ego
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    We want to be California TOO
    March 11, 2013 8:51 am
    Broke and everyone leaving.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    RickW7
    March 11, 2013 9:38 am
    Sounds as if you have bought that fiction hook line and sinker. Take a visit to California and you'll see its doing just fine.Yep some companies leave then others quickly take their place
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    Um Messiah
    March 11, 2013 10:09 am
    My wife is from California and I have lots of relatives that live there. They are broke and a lot are leaving.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    RickW7
    March 11, 2013 11:50 am
    So admittedly your only speaking for a few individuals.In case you haven't noticed that is happening everywhere and it even happens during good economic times.Heck I left a great Union job in Massachusetts in the early 1970s to move West,it worked out GREAT and I hope it works out GREAT for your wives family also.But contrary to the B/S you hear on Right Wing media California is doing just fine its the leading State in the USA and will always be.Most everything in our Country flows out of California.Yes the taxes are too high but so are the wages.
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    Maybe Messiah
    March 11, 2013 12:28 pm
    You should read this LATIMES artical instead of believing gov moonbeam

    http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/13/local/la-me-state-debt-20130114

    and maybe this one

    http://www.businessinsider.com/californias-debt-6-12x-higher-than-previously-estimated-2012-9

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