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Tag Archives: Clean Campaigns

Republican megadonor Brian Heywood opens his wallet to fund six-initiative signature drive

Excerpt: A wealthy donor to the Washington State Republican Party has begun funneling serious money into a signature drive that aims to qualify a slew of six right wing initiatives to the 2024 Washington State Legislature, reports filed this week with the Public Disclosure Commission by his political committee show. 
Published at:2:02 PM on Friday, September 15th, 2023
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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In arena after arena, Attorney General Bob Ferguson is getting results for Washington

Excerpt: The state's three-term chief legal officer has scored an impressive number of wins in a bevy of cases with big ramifications.
Published at:4:35 PM on Monday, March 7th, 2022
Written by:Joel Connelly
Categories:Litigation, Public Service
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The mother of all grocery bills: GMA must pay $18 million fine for 2013 disclosure violations

Excerpt: The Grocery Manufacturers Association remains on the hook for a record-setting judgment because it flagrantly violated Washington State's public disclosure laws during its efforts to defeat a GMO labeling initiative.
Published at:8:34 PM on Friday, November 13th, 2020
Written by:Joel Connelly
Categories:Elections, Litigation, Open Government, Policy Topics
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Washington State State passes DISCLOSE Act to expose dark money in politics — at last!

Excerpt: Washington State's newly minted Democratic Senate majority notched its first signature legislative win tonight, bringing Andy Billig's DISCLOSE Act to the floor for a vote and easily passing the legislation with the support of several Republicans.
Published at:9:41 PM on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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State of Washington sues Kim Wyman for public disclosure law violations

Excerpt: The State of Wash­ing­ton is suing Repub­li­can Sec­re­tary of State Kim Wyman for mul­ti­ple pub­lic dis­clo­sure law vio­la­tions, Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son’s office announced in a news release this afternoon. “The com­plaint alleges the Wyman cam­paign failed to time­ly file con­tri­bu­tion and expen­di­ture dis­clo­sure reports, as required under the state’s cam­paign finance laws. It also […]
Published at:2:11 PM on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson requests that Tim Eyman be held in contempt of court

Excerpt: Wash­ing­ton State Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son announced today he is ask­ing courts in Sno­homish and Thurston coun­ties to hold ini­tia­tive prof­i­teer Tim Eyman and his asso­ciates in con­tempt of court for fail­ing to ful­ly com­ply with law­ful­ly-issued civ­il orders seek­ing doc­u­ments that would shed light on poten­tial vio­la­tions of Wash­ing­ton’s pub­lic dis­clo­sure law. “Despite a sub­poe­na […]
Published at:1:30 PM on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Hillary Clinton commits to introducing amendment to overturn Citizens United

Excerpt: In a video address to Net­roots Nation 2016, played dur­ing tonight’s clos­ing ple­nary ses­sion in St. Louis, pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton com­mit­ted to intro­duc­ing a con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment to over­turn the Roberts Court’s hor­ri­ble Cit­i­zens Unit­ed rul­ing with­in her first one hun­dred days in office. “Today I’m announc­ing that in my first thir­ty days as […]
Published at:6:05 PM on Saturday, July 16th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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It’s official: Attorney General Ferguson has a second case against Tim Eyman to prosecute

Excerpt: A com­plaint alleg­ing that Tim Eyman failed to fol­low Wash­ing­ton’s pub­lic dis­clo­sure law back in April when he launched an ad cam­paign exco­ri­at­ing Demo­c­ra­t­ic law­mak­ers for not doing his bid­ding has been returned to Attor­ney Gen­er­al Bob Fer­gu­son’s office for fur­ther action by a unan­i­mous Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Commission. In an ear­ly after­noon tele­con­fer­ence, Com­mis­sion­ers Anne […]
Published at:8:30 PM on Friday, July 8th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Litigation, Open Government, Policy Topics
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Tim Eyman broke the law with ad campaign against Democratic legislators, PDC confirms

Excerpt: Ini­tia­tive prof­i­teer Tim Eyman has once against been bust­ed for seri­ous vio­la­tions of Wash­ing­ton State’s pub­lic dis­clo­sure laws. Staff at the Pub­lic Dis­clo­sure Com­mis­sion — Wash­ing­ton’s equiv­a­lent of the Fed­er­al Elec­tions Com­mis­sion — have fin­ished inves­ti­gat­ing a com­plaint filed by NPI part­ner Wash­ing­to­ni­ans For Eth­i­cal Gov­ern­ment sev­er­al weeks ago which alleges that Eyman and his asso­ciates […]
Published at:2:30 PM on Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Déjà vu: Unmasking of Tim Eyman’s deceptions leads to media field day

Excerpt: Yes­ter­day, Sep­tem­ber 21st, 2015, felt a lot like Feb­ru­ary 5th, 2002. That was the day that peo­ple all over Wash­ing­ton State woke up to the news that Tim Eyman had con­fessed to tak­ing over a hun­dred and fifty thou­sand dol­lars of cam­paign funds for his own per­son­al use while false­ly claim­ing he was work­ing as […]
Published at:12:42 PM on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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Worth noting: Washington State’s elected justices can’t personally solicit campaign cash

Excerpt: On Tues­day, The Seat­tle Times ran a col­umn from Dan­ny West­neat titled “The trou­ble with union dona­tions, school cas­es”, which expressed dis­com­fort over the fact that the Wash­ing­ton Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion has pre­vi­ous­ly donat­ed mon­ey to the cam­paigns of sev­er­al of the jus­tices who now sit on our state Supreme Court. Almost from the moment that […]
Published at:9:14 PM on Thursday, September 10th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Elections, Litigation, Live Coverage, Open Government, Policy Topics
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