Category Archives: Election Postmortem
Tim Eyman’s Mukilteo neighbors voted down Initiative 1125, official results show
A couple of weeks ago, county canvassing boards across Washington State met to finalize the results of the November 2011 general election. The certification of the election means that we finally have official results that we can analyze and study. (It doe take a long time to count all of the votes under our vote-by-mail [...]
Tagged Initiative 1125
Statement on the apparent defeat of I-1125
Following the release of the first returns for the 2011 general election, NPI’s Permanent Defense published the following statement, reacting to the apparent defeat of Tim Eyman’s I-11125. Many long months of working to educate voters about the cost and consequences of Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1125 thankfully appear to be paying off tonight. Although many [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1125
Voters in King County never demanded “$30 car tabs”
Still mad over King County Executive Dow Constantine’s successful efforts to patch Metro’s funding shortfall, Tim Eyman is now asking his supporters to print out and hang up an eight and one half by eleven inch poster which accosts King County Councilmembers Jane Hague and Kathy Lambert as liars, Councilmember Julia Patterson as a sell-out, [...]
Also posted in Rethinking and Reframing
Tagged Initiative 695, Initiative 776
Memo to the Seattle Times: Majority vote means fifty percent plus one – no more, no less!
The following is the text of the letter to the editor sent by NPI to the Seattle Times in response to the Times’ Sunday editorial urging the state Supreme Court not to strike down I-1053 if it receives an opportunity to do so. In your Sunday, June 5th editorial (State’s two-thirds rule on taxes should [...]
Also posted in In the Courts, Rethinking and Reframing
Tagged Initiative 1053, Media Criticism
Two out of three corporate initiatives passing easily, including Tim Eyman’s I-1053
As expected, the two corporate initiatives that public interest advocates failed to effectively organize and mobilize against – Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1053 and the American Beverage Association’s Initiative 1107 – are passing handily in the first returns to be reported. The success of I-1053 and I-1107 deals Washington’s fragile common wealth a devastating blow at [...]
Also posted in Rethinking and Reframing
Tagged Initiative 1053, Initiative 1107
Eyman invites supporters to join him in crashing Dino Rossi and Dave Reichert’s Election Night party
Unwilling to organize an Election Night party of his own – either because almost nobody would come, or because he’s just too lazy to go to all the trouble of putting together an event – Tim Eyman has invited his supporters to join him in crashing Dino Rossi and Dave Reichert’s Election Night party at [...]
Also posted in Ballot Watchdogging
Tagged Initiative 1053
Pierce, Benton counties flip to NO on Initiative 1033
The victory over Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1033 continues to get bigger. Yesterday evening, Benton County… which is a reliable vote for Eyman’s anti-tax initiatives… flipped to the NO side, joining much of the rest of southeast Washington in defeating Eyman’s latest scheme to kill jobs and wreck our common wealth. And today, Pierce County has [...]
Also posted in Statements & Advisories
Tagged Initiative 1033
Statement on apparent defeat of Tim Eyman’s I-1033
The Northwest Progressive Institute, Permanent Defense’s parent organization, released the following statement on the apparent defeat of Tim Eyman’s I-1033 tonight. “We can all breathe a collective sigh of relief tonight with the apparent defeat of Initiative 1033,” said Villeneuve. “I-1033 would have trapped our state in a permanent recession, making an economic recovery impossible.” [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1033
Statement on the overwhelming defeat of I-985
Today the people of the State of Washington sent a loud, clear message to perennial right wing initiative sponsor Tim Eyman: We’re sick of traffic and we don’t agree that the solution to our transportation mess is diverting money from our schools to pay for bigger and wider highways. “We’re thrilled with the results,” said [...]
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Tagged Initiative 985
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 [...]
Tagged Initiative 900
