Sen. Bob Hasegawa discusses why he will be voting against passing SB 5052, legislation having to do with creating a leasehold tax exemption for large entertainment arenas.

  The Senate State Government & Elections Committee holds a hearing on SJM 8000 (sponsored by Sen. Patty Kuderer) and SJM 8002 (sponsored by Sen. Bob Hasegawa), both seeking to crack down on unregulated dark money in political campaigns that destabilizes our democracy.

WHEREAS, On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the United States military to forcibly remove and incarcerate more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, including 12,000 Japanese American residents of Washington State; and WHEREAS, The first civilian evacuation order gave Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island, Washington less than one week to leave behind homes, personal belongings, farms, businesses, friends, and family and report to detention centers like Camp Harmony on the grounds of the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, where hastily converted horse stables housed the evacuated families; and WHEREAS, These detention centers were temporary quarters…