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Daily Archives: October 16th, 2011

Washington has always trusted an expert commission to set tolls — why change that?

Excerpt: Hav­ing been in the busi­ness of sell­ing ini­tia­tives for more than a decade (and pos­sess­ing a gift for media manip­u­la­tion) Tim Eyman has become a mas­ter snake oil sales­man. Every year, he devel­ops a remark­ably slick (yet shal­low) sales pitch for his lat­est ini­tia­tive. This year’s sales pitch has stressed a com­fort­ing theme — con­ti­nu­ity. […]
Published at:5:42 PM on Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections, Policy Topics, Public Planning
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