Category Archives: Threat Analysis
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 [...]
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Statement on Initiative 1053′s qualification for the ballot
Earlier today, Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office announced that Initiative 1053 had passed a random sample check of its signatures, which means it will be on this November’s ballot. NPI and Permanent Defense are responding by kicking efforts to oppose Initiative 1053 into higher gear. “Initiative 1053 may be sponsored by Tim Eyman, but [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1053
PDC reports for June 2010 show that Tim Eyman is rolling in corporate cash
This morning, Tim Eyman sent out another email to his supporters thanking them for their efforts getting Initiative 1053 on the ballot. Eyman wrote: “When Olympia sidesteps a law like I-960 (which voters approved in 2007), they count on the citizens to not have the energy or enthusiasm to roll that boulder back up the [...]
Also posted in Ballot Watchdogging, Eye on Money: Developments
Tagged Initiative 1053
Eyman loans I-1053 campaign committee $50,000, doesn’t tell supporters
As required by law, Tim Eyman’s treasurer is in the midst of uploading the April 2010 campaign finance reports for the latest incarnation of the Mukilteo profiteer’s campaign committee (Voters Want More Choices Save the Two Thirds for Tax Increases). Surprisingly, the reports show that Eyman’s wealthy benefactor Michael Dunmire — a cosponsor of Initiative 1053 [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1053
Eyman files symbolic initiatives to repeal new revenue in 2010 budget
That didn’t take long. The ink is still not dry on the 2010 supplemental budget – which has yet to be signed into law by Governor Gregoire – but already initiative profiteer Tim Eyman has filed a series of initiatives to wipe out the new revenue it contains. Some news reports are lending the impression [...]
Also posted in Ballot Watchdogging
Tagged Initiative 1053
Eyman’s paid mercenaries are set to hit the streets with I-1053 petitions
Mercenary signature gatherers hawking petitions for Tim Eyman’s Initiative 1053 will be hitting the streets over the next few days, Permanent Defense has learned. Individuals with knowledge of Eyman’s activities have confirmed to Permanent Defense that the Mukilteo profiteer is once again hiring his pals Roy Ruffino and Eddie Agrazarm, who run “Citizen Solutions”, to [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1053
Eyman prints petitions for Initiative 1053
Tim Eyman announced this morning in a message to his followers that he has begun printing up petitions for Initiative 1053, his do-over of Initiative 960 from 2007. Eyman also said several petitions have already been circulated at a Republican state committee meeting. Like I-960, I-1053 brazenly contradicts Article II, Section 22 of the Washington [...]
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Permanent Defense, MajorityRules respond to Eyman’s attempt to re-impose minority rule
The Northwest Progressive Institute’s Permanent Defense project and MajorityRules.org – both part of the successful NO on Initiative 1033 Coalition that stopped Tim Eyman’s scheme to trap Washington in a permanent recession – today responded to the umpteenth filing of Tim Eyman’s new attempt to reimpose an unconstitutional two thirds barrier to raising revenue. “Once [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1053
Permanent Defense responds to Eyman’s submission of signatures for jobs killing Initiative 1033
This morning in Olympia, professional initiative profiteer Tim Eyman submitted signatures for his latest scheme to wreck Washington – Initiative 1033, which would result in job losses across The Evergreen State. “Our economy is extraordinarily fragile right now,” noted Northwest Progressive Institute Executive Director Andrew Villeneuve. (Permanent Defense is a project of the Northwest Progressive [...]
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Tagged Initiative 1033
