Episode 205: Let’s Talk About E9

So a few weeks ago, it kind of came to light on Zav for Tacoma's Instagram, social media, that there was a few businesses that had an individual owner who had made contributions to a relatively conservative, in my opinion, pretty regressive political action committee in Washington, Let's Go Washington.

They have a few platforms.

One of them is repealing the income tax for high earners.

One of them is a parent's right to know, which is, you know, has all kinds of issues for children's safety, especially children who don't feel safe at the house.

And then the other one is trying to keep trans kids out of the sports in which under the gender in which they identify.

So those are like their big platforms.

So Zev posted a video about how the words that they used were, here's a list of businesses responsible for funding anti-trans legislation in Washington.

And they are Asato, E9, and Frisco Freeze, all of whom are owned at least in part by John Zitko and his brother, the Zitko brothers.

So the donations were made in Zitco's name.

Being a part owner was connected to these businesses in this way.

And then, as you can imagine, there was a slew of...

I mean, that video is for sure their most viewed video ever.

Something like 100,000 views, tons of comments, all this stuff.

And it's been a couple of weeks of...

People being very vocally passionate about their support for E9, their dislike of the Zitkos, their dislike of E9 suddenly, their dislike of these other places.

And then, as you can imagine, there's also folks who, you know, found... think they found a new home.

Some folks who support the initiatives that Let's Go Washington proposes.

So there's been a lot of those comments as well.

And it has just been kind of like a whirlwind.

As you can imagine, some local businesses stopped, publicly stopped carrying E9, posted videos about how they're not going to support that.

There's been responses from the brothers ever since.

And, you know, kind of a ladder of actions that we've sort of been following for the last couple of weeks.

But that's the general gist, I think.

Oof.

That is a good blanket place to start.

So a few weeks ago, it kind of came to light on Zav for Tacoma's Instagram, social media, that there was a few businesses that had an individual owner who had made contributions to a relatively conservative, in my opinion, pretty regressive political action committee in Washington, Let's Go Washington.

They have a few platforms.

One of them is repealing the income tax for high earners.

One of them is a parent's right to know, which is, you know, has all kinds of issues for children's safety, especially children who don't feel safe at the house.

And then the other one is trying to keep trans kids out of the sports in which under the gender in which they identify.

So those are like their big platforms.

So Zev posted a video about how the words that they used were, here's a list of businesses responsible for funding anti-trans legislation in Washington.

And they are Asato, E9, and Frisco Freeze, all of whom are owned at least in part by John Zitko and his brother, the Zitko brothers.

So the donations were made in Zitco's name.

Being a part owner was connected to these businesses in this way.

And then, as you can imagine, there was a slew of...

I mean, that video is for sure their most viewed video ever.

Something like 100,000 views, tons of comments, all this stuff.

And it's been a couple of weeks of...

People being very vocally passionate about their support for E9, their dislike of the Zitkos, their dislike of E9 suddenly, their dislike of these other places.

And then, as you can imagine, there's also folks who, you know, found... think they found a new home.

Some folks who support the initiatives that Let's Go Washington proposes.

So there's been a lot of those comments as well.

And it has just been kind of like a whirlwind.

As you can imagine, some local businesses stopped, publicly stopped carrying E9, posted videos about how they're not going to support that.

There's been responses from the brothers ever since.

And, you know, kind of a ladder of actions that we've sort of been following for the last couple of weeks.

But that's the general gist, I think.

Oof.

That is a good blanket place to start.