Category Archives: Rethinking and Reframing
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
Eyman followers to Permanent Defense: A republic is not a democracy
A week ago, we published a report (Voters Want More Choices begins 2011 with no wealthy benefactor in sight), which affirmed a point that we’ve been trying to make to the press and to the people of Washington for years – namely, that without big money, Tim Eyman’s initiative factory simply could not exist. Naturally, [...]
Tagged Initiative 1053
The anger, spite, and negativity of Tim Eyman
Well, that didn’t take long. This morning, Tim Eyman sent out an email very similar to one he sent out a week ago, again making it look like an editorial board said something mean about him, when in fact it was simply the opinion of one person writing in: RE: EVERETT HERALD: “Hopefully Eyman will [...]
Willful deception: Eyman deliberately misattributes degroatory comment about himself to Seattle P-I
As we have previously documented on numerous occasions – both here and at the NPI Advocate – Tim Eyman is no fan of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The publication, formerly Seattle’s oldest newspaper and now its most-visited online-only news source, has consistently opposed Eyman’s ill-conceived initiatives over the years, and it also exposed his illicit money [...]
Tagged Eyman Plays the Victim
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 Election Postmortem
Tagged Initiative 1053, Initiative 1107
Retired Sacramento Bee reporter Stephen Green explains how California’s version of 1053 has hurt Golden State
This morning, the Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI) Advocate published a special guest post by retired Sacramento Bee reporter Stephen Green, who covered California’s statehouse for many years. In the post, Green explains how California’s version of 1053 has hurt the Golden State, paralyzing its government and leaving California’s Legislature mired in gridlock. Initiative 1053 does [...]
Also posted in Statements & Advisories, Threat Analysis
Eyman asks followers to help him retire his debt; fails to acknowledge or thank his corporate backers
Admitting that “times are tough for everyone”, Mukilteo initiative profiteer Tim Eyman shook his electronic tin cup again today, asking his followers to help retire $250,000 in debt he incurred while trying to come up with funds for I-1053′s signature drive. “After paying for mortgage/rent, vehicle costs, food, and other family expenses, it’s difficult to [...]
Also posted in Eye on Money: Developments
Tagged Initiative 1053
Citizens of Mukilteo have already rejected Eyman attempt to take away red-light camera money
At the beginning of this week, Mukilteo’s most infamous right wing politician announced that he and two of his friends were launching a citywide initiative to ban red-light cameras. But Eyman – who has assailed red-light cameras as the “crack cocaine” of city leaders – failed to mention that the people of his hometown have [...]
Also posted in Ballot Watchdogging
Tagged Initiative 985
Eyman clumsily attacks high-earners income tax initiative, doesn’t admit it would lower taxes for most
Earlier today, everybody’s favorite former watch salesman sent out yet another hyperbolic fundraising appeal to his supporters. But unusually, instead of singling out Governor Gregoire or Democratic leaders as a foil for his pitch for money like he often does, Eyman attacked the coalition behind Initiative 1077. The measure, officially unveiled at a press conference [...]
Also posted in Statements & Advisories
Tagged Initiative 1053
RE: What does the phrase ‘Will of the people’ mean to you?
Earlier this morning, Tim Eyman sent out an email which asked, in its subject line, “What does the phrase “will of the people” mean to you?” To us, those words mean that our cherished tradition of majority rule must never be compromised. Schemes that take away majority rule (such as Initiative 960 and Initiative 1053) [...]
Also posted in Legislation & Testimony
Tagged Initiative 1053, Initiative 960
