Rule #1 Of Lobbying

There is no tit-for-tat.
There is no tit-for-tat.
There is no tit-for-tat.
There is no tit-for-tat.

Just got a statement from Governor Chris Gregoire, House Speaker Frank Chopp and Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown: The so-called ‘worker privacy’ bill is dead and there’s now an investigation over whether an e-mail “linking potential action on the bill to campaign contributions” broke the law.

The “worker privacy” bill was listed as the labor unions’ top priority this session — and among the top bills to quash on a list from the Association of Washington Business. The bill would have barred employers from requiring employees to sit through meetings about religion or union matters.

That's more than a little bit of a cock-up, Big Labor.