Bank of America joins Keep Washington Rolling, donates $10,000 to beat I‑1125

A year and a half after donat­ing $10,000 to help Tim Eyman get I‑1053 on the Novem­ber 2010 bal­lot, Bank of Amer­i­ca (which we like to call Bank of Greed) has donat­ed an iden­ti­cal amount to beat Eyman’s I‑1125, new PDC data shows.

Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling has been bol­stered by some $1 mil­lion in fresh con­tri­bu­tions received over the last week and a half, includ­ing Bank of Amer­i­ca’s dona­tion. Oth­er recent wealthy and cor­po­rate con­trib­u­tors to KWR include:

• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who chipped in $100,000;
• Craig Mundie, chief research offi­cer at Microsoft, who donat­ed $10,000;
• Cen­tu­ryLink, which gave $15,000;
• HTNB Corp., which gave $25,000;
• Alas­ka Air­lines, which gave $5,000;
• Pre­mera Blue Cross, which put in anoth­er $10,000;
• Nin­ten­do of Amer­i­ca, which put up $25,000;
• AT&T, which gave $10,000;
• Rus­sell Invest­ment Group, which gave $10,000;
• T‑Mobile, which gave $7,500;
• The Seat­tle Mariners, who donat­ed anoth­er $25,000;
• The Wash­ing­ton Real­tors, who gave $25,000.

Boe­ing, mean­while, donat­ed $200,000 worth of adver­tis­ing yes­ter­day, join­ing Microsoft as one of the largest con­trib­u­tors to Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling.

Please note, this isn’t a com­plete list.

In total, Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling has now raised $2,267,157.76 and spent $1,293,846.9. It still has about a mil­lion dol­lars in cash to burn … and it like­ly isn’t done tak­ing in con­tri­bu­tions, either.

The only major Wash­ing­ton cor­po­ra­tions that don’t seem to have put mon­ey into the NO on I‑1125 cam­paign yet are Ama­zon and Star­bucks.

We pre­vi­ous­ly report­ed that sev­er­al of the cor­po­ra­tions and com­pa­nies that backed Eyman last year had donat­ed mon­ey to beat him last year. We’ve dubbed this group, which now includes Bank of Amer­i­ca, Tim Eyman’s fair-weath­er friends.