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Sheriff Jay Inslee of Mayberry?

Aug 23, 2018, 8:00 PM | Updated: Aug 24, 2018, 5:48 am

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Washington State Governor Jay Inslee. (AP)

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Dori noticed that Jay Inslee’s speech patterns took on a distinctly country twang this week when he announced his latest lawsuit against the Trump administration and pushed for the carbon tax initiative on November’s ballot.

Inslee pointed out that because of the poor air quality, outdoor pools in Wenatchee and the Tri-Cities were forced to close down this past week.

“Our kids can’t go out and go swimmin’, for goodness’ sakes. Those kids deserve clean air,” Inslee said. “When you got pools shut down where kids can’t go swimmin’ and a president trying to get them to have to breathe more coal smoke, that just is unacceptable.”

Dori had a field day with Inslee’s decision to leave the ‘g’ off of “swimming” and use a phrase like “for goodness’ sakes” in a political speech. However, Dori did not think the governor’s new way of speaking was random — it seemed like a way to appeal to voters in rural parts of the state in order to butter them up to the idea of a carbon tax.

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“It’s such a weird little affectation he has taken on to try to sell a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer rip-off,” Dori observed.

The word choice reminded Dori of a famous small-towner — Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina on “The Andy Griffith Show.”

“If Governor Inslee is going to adopt the down-home twang of southern politicians, dropping g’s off the ends of words — don’t just talk like Sheriff Taylor, start acting like him,” Dori said.

Dori recalled the way that Andy Taylor was always willing to go after criminals and make sure that people learned the consequences of their actions. These are ideal qualities not just for a law enforcement officer like Andy, Dori noted, but also for a governor.

“Wouldn’t it be sweet if we actually had a politician like that? … I would love to have a real Andy Taylor here — selfless, cared about the people that he served, was willing to teach life lessons, especially to the kids,” Dori said.

He suggested that Seattle politicians look to Sheriff Taylor as a role model for cleaning up the city and combating the crimes that have become all-too prevalent in Seattle, such as vagrancy, open drug use, and theft.

“Our society would be so much better if we actually had that Mayberry-type attitude,” Dori said. “Now we’ve got Jenny Durkan and Jay Inslee, we’ve got Dow Constantine, we’ve got all these people locally and all they do is try to extract as much money from us as possible. They don’t care at all about the fact that we have a record number of homelessness, that we’re spending billions of dollars on homelessness and the problem is just getting dramatically worse.”

 

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