Comments on Homeless and Homeless Advocates Crowd Capitol Building

I don't get it, are they trying to look like communists?

"Demanding to meet their representatives, who are sequestered in chambers (i.e. doing their jobs)." Yeah, that'll work. That money from Olympia will just come rolling in.

Maybe they'd have more income if they spent their days doing something other than playing dress-up.

Right on. These new anti-homeless laws are outrageous and must be stopped. And what's with saying we might not have enough money for the housing trust fund while proposing a $75 million tax break to Microsoft?

@4, a tax break is foregone revenue, not a cash gift. If the state doesn't provide MSFT the break, it may not put the server farms in Washington anyway, which would have the same effect as far as the state's revenue picture is concerned.

As an organizer of the event, it was awesome to see 450 people take time out of their day to come down to Olympia and tell lawmakers to make housing & homelessness a priority.

Have to say, attitudes like Joykiller's are exactly what we are trying to combat. This silly notion that in a state where 250,000 families have to choose between food and rent that somehow the family is to blame, not the system.

Thanks for covering this Josh.

What a great event -- as someone who works at the Capitol, I'd like to thank those who brought the real people down to the people's house to remind their elected representatives who it is that they are working for, and why.

Watching the hired gun business lobbyists looking irritated and harried scurrying around the masses of low-income folks was priceless . . .

Good story, except one comment is incorrect: Those who wore the red jackets were not all low-income. This was not a huge group of poor people; this was a huge group of people of all different economic strata, from poor to high-income. What can be accurately said is that they were people who CARE about their neighbors, their kids, their friends. This is not a poor peoples' issue; it's EVERYONE's issue.

I don't remember Mao wearing a red poncho about housing, but clearly 450 people trekking to Olympia demanding affordable housing means we have a real crisis in this state that needs attention and resources.