Friday, April 11, 2008

Doesn't it figure?

Back in the dark days before Tim Eyman's car-tab initiative, the cost of registering a car was so prohibitive in Washington that anyone who lived close enough would license their cars in Oregon instead, even if it meant having family who lived in Oregon do it for you. In response, the Washington State Patrol took to sitting on the bridges leading from Vancouver into Portland, taking down license numbers of commuters with Oregon plates and checking them against utility bills and such. (I figure the excise tax must have been paying their salaries, since Lord knows it wasn't being used to maintain I-5 through that area.)

Ironic that The Woman who Would Be Governor should be doing her campaigning in an Oregon-registered vehicle. Maybe her followers could hide enough ballots in Salem to get her a mansion there, too.

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