Gregoire's budget proposal - Point One

Despite being in office for less than a year, Governor Gregoire's approval rating is abysmal. Regardless of how you consider the outcome of the 2004 gubernatorial election, Gregoire's assertion during her campaign that she would not support new statewide taxes (a campaign point she took from her opponent, Republican Dino Rossi), combined with her steadfast upholding of former Gov. Locke's tax policies (Locke, BTW, enacted more and higher tax increases than any other governor in state history), and her enthusiastic support of the bill that "killed" the I-601 state spending cap during the Democrat-controlled 2005 legislative session - the public opinion, by both Democrat and Republican voters, is that she's not doing what she said she would do.