Category Archives: Rethinking and Reframing
Tim Eyman refiles HB 1415 as initiative to the people, labels it “Fund Education First” (with what money, Tim?)
Yesterday, presumably while he was at the state’s Capitol Campus to testify on a bill he didn’t like, Tim Eyman filed three more initiatives, bringing the total number he’s filed so far this year to eight. The first two are titled “Son of 1053″ and “Son of 1125″ (and they are comprised of provisions recycled [...]
Debunking Tim Eyman’s budget fabrications
Eager to put the failure of I-1125 behind him, Tim Eyman has, in recent days, resorted to attacking one of his favorite targets (Governor Chris Gregoire) in his multi-weekly fundraising appeals to his band of followers. Eyman’s latest email, dated today, is a doozy; to describe it as chock-full of fabrications would be a major [...]
Also posted in Statements & Advisories
Danny Westneat assails Tim Eyman’s secret war on light rail
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat has a blistering must-read column in today’s edition of the Seattle Times, taking Tim Eyman and Kemper Freeman Jr. to task for quietly trying to stop Sound Transit’s East Link project through a sneaky provision buried in I-1125, which is intended to kill East Link, but doesn’t actually mention the [...]
Also posted in From the Campaign Trail
Tagged Initiative 1125
RE: Given the state’s newest revenue forecast…
Washington’s Legislature passed a budget last spring that relied on revenue forecasts which were too optimistic. The Economic and Revenue Forecast Council yesterday projected that the state will collect $1.4 billion less in taxes between now and 2013 than it had previously estimated. Consequently, Governor Gregoire and lawmakers must now figure out how to close [...]
Also posted in Legislation & Testimony, Statements & Advisories
Tagged Initiative 1053
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 Election Postmortem
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 Election Postmortem, In the Courts
Tagged Initiative 1053, Media Criticism
Hypocrisy, thy name is Eyman: Voters Want More Choices responds to underhanded tactics with campaign of harassment
Yesterday, one of Washington’s largest daily newspapers, the Everett Herald, semi-outed a commenter who has been regularly defending red-light cameras in the comment threads of news stories the Herald has published about city governments’ deliberations over whether or not to use them. It turns out this commenter, “W Howard”, is actually Bill Kroske, a vice [...]
Tagged Municipal initiatives
I-1125 appears to contain an anti-East Link clause
It turns out that Initiative 1125, the toll-restricting measure that Tim Eyman says he intends to qualify for the ballot this year, wouldn’t just restrict the Legislature’s ability to raise revenue for transportation projects using tolls. A review of the measure’s text indicates it also seeks to shut down Sound Transit’s voter-approved East Link project [...]
Also posted in Threat Analysis
Tagged Initiative 1125
The Associated Press: Tim Eyman’s P.R. agency
Researchers looking for evidence that American traditional media is effectively brain-dead need look no further than the Seattle and Olympia bureaus of The Associated Press, which inexplicably continue to put garbage like the following out on the wire for member newspapers and broadcast outlets to use: SEATTLE — Initiative activist Tim Eyman won a $20,000 [...]
Tim Eyman’s desperation is showing
This afternoon, Tim Eyman sent out a fourth consecutive email begging for money and instructing his followers to send messages of condemnation to NPI’s founder, Andrew Villeneuve, and Olympia City Council candidate Brian Tomlinson. Andrew composed the following statement in response. After all these years, it’s kinda funny that we have suddenly become the object [...]
Also posted in Statements & Advisories
Tagged Eyman Plays the Victim, Initiative 1053
