Three of Tim Eyman’s wealthiest benefactors are hosting a fundraiser for Donald Trump

Faye Gar­neau, one of Seat­tle’s rich­est denizens and a major donor to dis­graced ini­tia­tive prof­i­teer Tim Eyman, says she’s plan­ning on par­tic­i­pat­ing in a fundrais­er for Don­ald Trump in Seat­tle, even though the mogul is run­ning an un-Amer­i­can pres­i­den­tial cam­paign and tank­ing in the polls.

“He’s hon­est, he’s talk­ing blunt­ly. He’s not real­ly a true politi­cian in some respects,” Gar­neau told The Seat­tle Times’ Jim Brun­ner.

Gar­neau must be liv­ing in some alter­nate uni­verse if she actu­al­ly believes that. Don­ald Trump is per­haps the most dis­hon­est per­son ever to be nom­i­nat­ed by a major par­ty for the office of Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States. Trump lies with impuni­ty; much of what he says is rat­ed False by inde­pen­dent fact checkers.

Only last week Trump dou­bled down on his asser­tion that Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma and Hillary Clin­ton “found­ed ISIS” — an utter­ly pre­pos­ter­ous fabrication.

But per­haps Gar­neau is attract­ed to con men. After all, she’s sup­port­ed Tim Eyman and giv­en him mon­ey for years, and there’s arguably none bet­ter in this state at part­ing rich fools from their mon­ey than Eyman. Eyman has been enrich­ing him­self at the expense of his donors for years. It is now a proven fact that Eyman has been dou­ble-dip­ping on his cam­paigns — pay­ing him­self a salary and accept­ing kick­backs from his bud­dies Roy Ruffno and Eddie Agazarm, who run his sig­na­ture dri­ves.

Most of the oth­er hosts of the fundrais­er also have an asso­ci­a­tion with Eyman:

[Gar­neau] joins sev­er­al pre­vi­ous­ly named Trump hosts, includ­ing bil­lion­aire mon­ey man­ag­er Ken Fish­er and real-estate devel­op­er Clyde Hol­land, both big GOP donors from the Van­cou­ver area. The loca­tion of the fundrais­er has not been disclosed.

Hosts also include state Repub­li­can Par­ty Chair­man Susan Hutchi­son, Clyde Hill devel­op­er Hos­sein Khor­ram and Brina San­ft, vol­un­teer chair for Trump’s cam­paign in King County.

State Sens. Don Ben­ton, R‑Vancouver, Doug Erick­sen, R‑Ferndale, and Bri­an Dansel, R‑Republic, who have been work­ing as paid staff for the Trump cam­paign, also are hosts.

The extreme­ly wealthy Fish­er and Hol­land were the two men who put up most of the mon­ey for Eyman’s hostage-tak­ing I‑1366 in 2015.

I‑1366 would have wiped out $8 bil­lion in fund­ing for pub­lic ser­vices over six years unless the Leg­is­la­ture had agreed to sab­o­tage Wash­ing­ton’s cher­ished tra­di­tion of leg­isla­tive major­i­ty rule. I‑1366 was unan­i­mous­ly declared uncon­sti­tu­tion­al by the Wash­ing­ton State Supreme Court in May.

Ben­ton and Erick­sen are among Eyman’s chief pals in the Sen­ate. (Eyman is also very close to Pam Roach, R‑31st Dis­trict). Ben­ton car­ries Eyman’s water in com­mit­tee hear­ings and on the Sen­ate floor, and can be seen con­vers­ing with Eyman on the Capi­tol Cam­pus dur­ing session.

Erick­sen often appears at Eyman press con­fer­ences to watch from door­ways, and subs for Eyman on the cam­paign trail when Eyman does­n’t want to be the face of his own ini­tia­tive cam­paign, or when Eyman isn’t avail­able. In debates, he’s been known to fierce­ly defend the giant oil com­pa­nies that oper­ate in his dis­trict, like BP.

Erick­sen, along with Spokane Coun­ty’s Michael Baum­gart­ner, helped engi­neer an endorse­ment of I‑1366 by the Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty last year.

WSRP Chair Susan Hutchi­son, who sev­en years ago ran for King Coun­ty Exec­u­tive and pub­licly came out against Eyman’s 2009 ini­tia­tive, has hitched her wag­on to Trump, repeat­ed­ly insist­ing that The Don­ald will make Wash­ing­ton State com­pet­i­tive in Novem­ber, a fan­ta­sy that nobody else seems to share — not even the par­ty’s guber­na­to­r­i­al can­di­date Bill Bryant, who had been try­ing for months not to antag­o­nize Trump sup­port­ers, but now says he won’t vote for Trump.