Tag Archives: Initiative 1053
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 [...]
Posted in Statements & Advisories, Threat Analysis
Also tagged 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 [...]
Posted in Statements & Advisories, Threat Analysis
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Statements & Advisories
Also 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 [...]
Posted in Election Postmortem, In the Courts, Rethinking and Reframing
Also tagged Media Criticism
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 [...]
Posted in Rethinking and Reframing, Statements & Advisories
Also tagged Eyman Plays the Victim
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, [...]
Posted in Rethinking and Reframing
Voters Want More Choices begins 2011 with no wealthy benefactor in sight
New reports filed with the Public Disclosure Commission last week indicate that Tim Eyman is still searching for a new benefactor to prop up his sputtering initiative factory, two months after the Mukilteo profiteer revealed he didn’t have the money lined up to buy his way onto the ballot this year. Excluding a large money [...]
Posted in Eye on Money: Developments
In fundraising letter, Eyman claims he has “whittled down” I-1053 debt to “below $200K”
Since announcing to his followers that he was “hitting the big panic button” a few weeks ago, Tim Eyman has managed to shave $38,000 plus off the total amount of his outstanding debt from last year. Or so he claims in a fundraising appeal recently sent out via snail mail and forwarded to NPI’s Permanent [...]
Posted in Eye on Money: Developments
Eyman says he’s “hitting the big panic button”
Apparently unable to convince either corporate lobbyists or Michael Dunmire to pony up the cash needed to pay off the $250,000 loan he took out against his house to help finance I-1053, Tim Eyman is shaking his electronic tin cup harder than ever, pleading with his supporters to help pay off the debt so he [...]
Posted in Eye on Money: Developments
