WTF? We're cutting things to the bone and she wants to spend more money. Yes, $10MM is a drop in the bucket, but she is creating yet another program, and more overhead, and another office, and the final cost will be????? $10MM my ass.

I am all for jobs, but not more government jobs. Try to look like a hero spending $10MM on a whim, but posture about cutting levy equalization funds that help level the playing field for poor school districts. If she had junk, I'd kick her squarely in it.

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There’s no question that Washington state is the best place in the world to build the Boeing 737 MAX jetliner,” said Gregoire at a Renton press conference. “And I believe that when all is said and done, Boeing will make the best decision and build this game-changing aircraft in this state.”

But Gregoire, who has seen Boeing twice turn its back on its native state, once when it moved its headquarters to Chicago and a second time when it built a 787 Dreamliner assembly line in South Carolina, said she’s taking nothing for granted.

She announced a budget-minded action plan to enhance the education of aerospace workers in the state.

That plan includes a new aerospace curriculum at 12 high schools, a new science and mathematics problem-solving course at 10 high schools and a $7.6 million program to enhance engineering education at the University of Washington and Washington State University.

The governor’s plan would also designate $1.5 million plus other funds from private donors to create a Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation at UW and WSU.

Gregoire said she will create an aerospace office within her staff to coordinate and grow aerospace opportunities in the state.

The governor’s plan has a bargain-basement total price of less than $10 million compared with the multi-billion dollar plan the state presented Boeing to win its first Dreamliner assembly line.


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