In February, King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison gave a gushing endorsement of the Policy Guide for Washington State by the Washington Policy Center, a right-wing think tank funded by conservatives, at the group's annual legislative luncheon. Here's a video of Hutchison's remarks:

And here's a transcription:

I’d like to put in a plug for a book that you have on your tables. It’s called the Policy Guide for Washington State and it’s published by the Washington Policy Center… I have read it cover to cover and it is one of the most extraordinary pieces of work about Washington State and the policies that make our government run. It hits on 10 different subjects from health care, education, transportation, tax policy and others. But let me tell you, folks. If you started this book tomorrow morning and read it through you would be smarter by dinnertime tomorrow night. This book makes you smart. So I highly recommend that you take it and that you read it.

What does the "smart" Washington Policy Guide say? Here's the book on what we should do about light rail (.pdf), which voters approved:

Reduce spending on costly, ineffective fixed-route mass transit. Policymakers should change spending priorities that heavily favor mass transit systems despite chronically low ridership. Riders of these expensive systems, like light rail and the Sounder Commuter Train, are being heavily subsidized by automobile commuters, yet research shows that fixed rail does nothing to reduce traffic congestion.

And even though Hutchison has come out on the campaign trail against Tim Eyman's Initiative 1033, which would cap government revenues based on inflation and population growth but devastate Washington's budget (she called it a "disaster"), the "book that makes you smart" says that idea sounds brilliant (.pdf):

Recommendation 1. Adopt a constitutional amendment to limit the growth of spending to inflation and population growth. [...] Since the legislature has repeatedly suspended the voter-approved requirement that tax increases require a two-thirds vote for approval, constitutional protections are needed. These protections, however, should not be limited to state taxpayers, but should extend to local taxpayers as well.

The book also makes statements on the environment (.pdf), calling Washington Climate Advisory Team's work “a patchwork of wishful thinking."

These are Hutchison's ideas about smart "health care, education, transportation, tax policy" and other issues. But if I-1033 passes, we will establish a tax policy that devastates funding for basic health programs, higher education, and K-12 class-size reductions. As for the transportation policies? Get used to auto-only transit. Not only does her endorsement of the right-wing book in front of a right-wing audience show off her true bright-red allegiance to the right wing, she also embraces—nay, praises—ideas that contradict her campaign rhetoric.