Eyman fundraising update

The latest figures, from The Olympian's Brad Shannon:

Eyman's I-900, which proposes an expansion of performance audits for state and local agencies, raised about $617,000. Of that, $489,494 came from a retired Woodinville investment executive, Michael Dunmire, and his wife, Phyllis Dunmire.

Again, this is nothing but one man's pet project. Dunmire has provided roughly 80% of Eyman's financial support (up from 76.5% in figures that appeared in a Spokesman-Review article). Dunmire is pumping Eyman's committee up like a balloon with donation after donation.

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Initiative 900 gives the auditor too much power

Close your eyes - and imagine for a moment that the state auditor isn't Brian Sonntag. Imagine instead that the state auditor is Tim Eyman, with the power to harass agencies like Sound Transit and the Seattle Monorail Project (both of which Eyman hates). Do you like the idea of giving the state auditor the power to push around local governments? What if we got a "rogue auditor"? It's a question we address in one of our new essays.