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Talking to supporters in downtown Tacoma and calling the cleanup of the Thea Foss waterway an inspiration to other seaside communities across western Washington, Gov. Chris Gregoire launched a two-day campaign boat tour that focused on her work with a new state agency created to promote the cleanup of Puget Sound.
Gregoire also announced that, should a bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks and U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell become law, an office of the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing the cleanup will be located in the to-be-built Urban Waters building in Tacoma.
“This is undeniable what’s going on right here,” she said. “I don’t want to put the money in more studies. I want to get things done. We had studies when I was at (the Department of) Ecology. It’s time for us to move forward.”
And Gregoire is relying on the Puget Sound Partnership, created last year with the goal to clean up the Sound by 2020, to coordinate the work. She said the Sound should be on par with Chesapeake Bay as a working, livable, healthy body of water.
Gregoire’s stop in Tacoma lasted less than an hour, and the tour continued to Des Moines, Seattle and Edmonds. Tomorrow she will cruise from Bainbridge Island to Twanoh State Park on the Hood Canal and finish in Bremerton.
“How do you do a bus tour and talk about Puget Sound?” she said. “We wanted to bring attention to the good things going on in the Sound.”
Gov. Chris Gregoire asked us press hacks if there was a card-everyone-who-enters-a-bar law. Why? Because after attending some of last week’s Capital Lakefair festivities, she entered Hannah's Sports Bar & Grill. The guy manning the front door asked to see her ID.
She left hers in the car. And even when the doorman was told who he was carding, he was adamant. She needed to show ID.
“Do you guys see something that I don’t see in the mirror?” she asked, laughing.
Gov. Chris Gregoire is speaking before a group of about 50 people at the Des Moines harbor now. She spent about 10 minutes speaking near the Museum of Glass on the Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma, and then she took an hour-long boat ride here.
The topic of conversation was the Puget Sound Partnership. The pack is about to head back to Tacoma, and I’ll have more about what she said online shortly.
I'm joining a press pack and following around Gov. Chris Gregoire during a campaign tour of Puget Sound.
