economy

Gov. Chris Gregoire will join a group of Democratic governors to participate in an economic roundtable with Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). They will discuss what they say are the "innovative solutions to the economic challenges the American people are facing every day."

The governor's campaign press secretary Aaron Toso compared the event to one Dino Rossi would be attending this week at the Building Industry Association of Washington's annual member meeting.

Dino Rossi responded to today's meeting of the Revenue Forecast Council that determined Washington would have a revenue decline of $167 million. He added that to past budget predictions and said the state would now have a $2.5 billion budget deficit in 2009. He also had some blunt words about Gregoire.

4th District Democratic candidate for Congress Don Moody grew up in Peshastin, Washington and became known around the Wenatchee area as a Sheriff's dispatcher and radio newsman in the 1970s and 80s. He never went to college, but has become well-versed in history and economics on his own, spending hours a day reading journals on the subjects. He even published a book called "America's Worst Train Disaster" about the Wellington Avalanche on Stevens Pass in 1910.

Governor Chris Gregoire is pushing for Congress to pass a second economic stimulus package, this time focusing on creating public works jobs to fix America's aging infrastructure.

"We need a stimulus package that generates pay checks, not a single check," Gregoire said. "We need a stimulus package that rebuilds our creaking infrastructure and makes our economy stronger."