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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

I-920 should qualify, thanks to Martin Selig

This isn't good news, but at least we were expecting it. It's always better when it isn't a surprise.

The I-920 campaign is planning to turn in its signatures this Friday at 1:30 PM, at the Secretary of State's office in Olympia, NPI has learned. (In case you forgot, I-920 is the right wing initiative to repeal the estate tax).

Despite early mistakes in the campaign, Dennis Falk and his cronies have (apparently) managed to pull through. How'd they do it? Pretty simple: they got a wealthy backer (Martin Selig, who donated over $400,000) and hired an army of paid petitioners under the employ of Roy Ruffino to go out and gather signatures.

The estate tax, which I-920 would repeal, provides hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for public schools - money that goes directly towards the Education Legacy Trust. The trust is now at serious risk.

You can learn more about I-920 at Washington Defense. NPI, along with a coalition of many other organizations, will be strongly opposing I-920 in November.

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