Category Archives: Threat Analysis
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 [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1185
Tim Eyman, master of shameless self-promotion, accuses Senate Democrats of having “a lack of humility and self awareness”
A question for Washington’s press corps: Does the email sent out by Tim Eyman today about last Friday’s chaos in the Senate sound like it was written by an adult? Because to us it reads like a series of petty schoolyard taunts and put-downs delivered by a third-grader who absolutely refuses to play nice with others. [...]
Also posted in Rethinking and Reframing
Direct democracy turns one hundred in Washington: Time to bring back the *citizen* initiative
One hundred years ago, the people of Washington prevailed upon their legislators to offer an amendment to the state’s Constitution providing for citizen lawmaking through the initiative and the referendum. That amendment, which the people adopted, was meant to give Washingtonians a stronger voice in their own government, complementing the legislative process rather than supplanting [...]
Also posted in Legislation & Testimony
Tagged Initiative Process Reform
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1053
First day to file initiatives to the people in 2012 is recycling day for Tim Eyman
Today was the first day to file initiatives to the people for the 2012 ballot, and Tim Eyman took advantage, filing five different drafts electronically with Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office. The Elections Division has not yet made the drafts available for download, so we haven’t read through them yet, but we do know [...]
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 [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1125
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 Rethinking and Reframing
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
