Monthly Archives: September 2007
FOIA filed to expose potential audit mischief
One of the major reasons we opposed Initiative 900 two years ago was because we feared the potential for abuse of the performance audit as a tool to ensure good government. Today, suspicious of the gleeful rhetoric used by opponents of transportation agencies such of Sound Transit expressing their happiness that audits will be released [...]
Posted in Election Postmortem
Tagged Initiative 900
Washington Research Council publishes report on I-960
The Washington Research Council, a business-supported think tank, has a new report (PDF) that echoes our criticisms of Tim Eyman’s latest plan to handicap government: Initiative 960 is intended to make it more difficult for our elected representatives to raise taxes without referring the matter to a direct vote of the people. As such, it [...]
Posted in Off Topic, Threat Analysis
Tagged Initiative 960
Initiative 900 rears its ugly head
Via Strange Bedfellows comes word of a new performance audit released by the State Auditor’s office and conducted by Ernst & Young, who declared in their report that “Washington State Ferries provides a level of service above what traffic volumes demand.” The audit says this unnecessary service will cost the state $100 million over the [...]
Posted in Election Postmortem
Tagged Initiative 900
