Category Archives: Statements & Advisories
Greedy oil industry once again propping up Tim Eyman’s initiative factory
More than a month after Tim Eyman announced that he would attempt to qualify a clone of Initiative 1053 for the ballot in 2012 (I-1185), we finally know what it was that prompted him to launch his signature drive: a commitment from oil industry lobbyists to dump money into his campaign coffers. Reports filed with [...]
Also posted in Threat Analysis
Tagged Initiative 1185
Tim Eyman backtracks on plan to run “Son of 1053″ in 2012, now says it’s just one of several possibilities
This Friday, we will be one month away from Permanent Defense’s ten year anniversary. During the last decade, we have devoted ourselves not only opposing Tim Eyman and his initiative factory, but watchdogging Eyman as well. And in that time, we’ve repeatedly caught Eyman telling his own followers and the press one thing after he [...]
Also posted in Threat Analysis
Tagged Initiative 1053, Tim Eyman Recycles... Garbage
Whatever happened to “Let the voters decide?”
Earlier today, in lieu of holding a press conference at Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office in the Legislative Building to discuss his plans for 2012, Tim Eyman drafted and began sending out an email to his followers (and the press) announcing that he intends to be active in opposing any and all efforts to [...]
Also posted in Threat Analysis
Tagged Initiative 1053
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 Rethinking and Reframing
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 [...]
Also posted in Election Postmortem
Tagged Initiative 1125
Statement on Tim Eyman’s lawsuit against the City of Redmond
Earlier today, Tim Eyman (represented by Seattle attorney Daniel Quick) filed a lawsuit against NPI’s hometown, the City of Redmond, which seeks to force Mayor John Marchione and the city council to forward petitions for an initiative orchestrated by red-light camera opponent Scott Harlan to the King County Elections Division for processing. Based on the [...]
Tagged Municipal initiatives
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, Rethinking and Reframing
Tagged Initiative 1053
Tim Eyman blows a gasket after learning of bipartisan deal to save King County Metro
On a day when people across King County are happy – happy that representative democracy at the regional level is working and overcoming obstacles, happy that our elected leaders have come up with a solution to protect Metro, a vital public service – Tim Eyman is angry, even though he doesn’t even live in King [...]
Tagged Initiative 1053, Initiative 695, Initiative 776
NPI’s Permanent Defense responds to submission of signatures for I-1125
This morning, at the Secretary of State’s Elections Annex at Union and Cherry in Olympia, Tim Eyman and his associates turned in an estimated three hundred and twenty plus thousand signatures for Initiative 1125, paid for by developer and Bellevue Square owner Kemper Freeman, Jr. Although the Secretary of State still has to conduct a [...]
Also posted in Threat Analysis
Tagged Initiative 1125
When new is old: Eyman’s scheme to restrict tolls based off a recycled provision from failed I-985
Yesterday, through the Associated Press, Tim Eyman announced that he intends to try to qualify an initiative for the 2011 November ballot, after initially planning to take a year off due to lack of access to a wealthy benefactor. The scheme Eyman says he’s running with was filed back in January, and was assigned the [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1125
