Microsoft invests $600,000 into NO on 1125

Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling, the coali­tion that is fight­ing Tim Eyman’s I‑1125, has just received a huge finan­cial boost from one of Wash­ing­ton’s largest employ­ers: Microsoft (which, like NPI, is head­quar­tered in Red­mond). The com­pa­ny had pre­vi­ous­ly donat­ed $100,000 to the cause, but last Fri­day, it wrote anoth­er check for six times that amount, bring­ing its aggre­gate total to $700,000.

Oth­er major con­trib­u­tors to Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling to date include:

• $40,000: Pem­co
• $30,000: Wright Run­stad & Associates
• $25,000: HDR Inc., Puget Sound Ener­gy, Par­sons Brinck­er­hoff, the Seat­tle Mariners, the Wash­ing­ton State Build­ing & Con­struc­tions Trade Coun­cil, Saltchuk Resources, and Weyerhaueser
• $20,000: Pre­mera Blue Cross, Wash­ing­ton Asphalt Pavers Association
• $16,500: Amal­ga­mat­ed Tran­sit Union (includ­ing Locals #587 and #1765)
• $16,000: Pacif­ic North­west Region­al Coun­cil of Carpenters
• $15,000: Vul­can, Wash­ing­ton State Labor Coun­cil, Aero­space Machin­ists Dis­trict #751, Kiewit Infra­struc­ture West

In total, Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling has raised $1.2 mil­lion, and it will like­ly end Octo­ber hav­ing raised clos­er to $2 mil­lion, if not more.

Microsoft obvi­ous­ly accounts for more than half of the amount raised, though the per­cent­age of its con­tri­bu­tions to Keep Wash­ing­ton Rolling are out­weighed by the per­cent­age of Kem­per Free­man, Jr.‘s con­tri­bu­tions to Tim Eyman’s coffers.