Lifting their privilege
Last month, Crosscut requested copies of all Senate records in 2022 in which legislators had redacted documents citing “legislative privilege.”
The redacted documents released to Crosscut Friday include blacked-out emails and memos related to the capital gains tax.
Those redacted messages include emails by Billig; Sen. June Robinson, D-Everett, sponsor of the bill that created the tax; and Sen. Christine Rolfes, D-Bainbridge Island, chief Democratic budget writer in the Senate. Rolfes and Robinson didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Senate records officials also released what appear to be the same batch of documents, but this batch is completely unredacted. The unredacted records were made possible because an
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