The Daily Beast has taken a deep dive look at what lies beneath the surface of the 2024 WA-03 Republican frontrunner’s campaign, and found a lot of muck.
Tag: Money in Politics
Posted inPolicy Topics
The Roberts/Alito Supreme Court’s toothless new code of ethics isn’t good enough
The code asks justices not to play a part in cases where they have a professional connection or personal interest. Compliance is entirely voluntary and based the judgment of the justice.
Posted inPublic Service
In arena after arena, Attorney General Bob Ferguson is getting results for Washington
The state’s three-term chief legal officer has scored an impressive number of wins in a bevy of cases with big ramifications.
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The occupation convoys plaguing Canada are a slick, foreign-funded attack on democracy
All told, more money has flowed toward the convoy protest than was given to Canada’s three major political parties in the last quarter of 2021. One percent of donors has accounted for twenty percent of the money donated.
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Tim Eyman concedes that judge’s sentence won’t keep him out of Washington politics
Eyman’s convenient pivot away from **Help me — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is trying to ban me from politics for life!** to **Full steam ahead — nothing’s gonna stop me** was entirely predictable.
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Inside Tim Eyman’s profit machine: A cartoon guide to his many moneymaking schemes
To help people who are interested in Eyman’s history understand it better, we’ve created a cartoon guide that explains the many different schemes Eyman has cooked up to rake in the Benjamins.
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Documentary Review: “Knock Down the House” inspires with stories of working people running for Congress
Read NPI’s review of “Knock Down the House”, a documentary now streaming on Netflix about a few of last year’s trailblazing congressional candidates, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Posted inLitigation
Federal judge: Campaign finance enforcement lawsuits against Tim Eyman can proceed
The State of Washington has a green light to move ahead with its campaign finance enforcement suits against Tim Eyman despite his recent bankruptcy filing.
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Washington State State passes DISCLOSE Act to expose dark money in politics — at last!
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.
Posted inElections, Our Environment, Policy Topics
California DISCLOSE Act signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown to combat dark money
Fires, hurricanes, the Trump-Corker spat, and the fate of the JCPOA with Iran dominated the news this weekend. Amidst all of the bad news, though, there was some good news: California has a tough new law that takes aim at dark money in politics, thanks to Governor Jerry Brown’s signature. SACRAMENTO, CA — Today, Governor […]
Posted inElections, Open Government, Policy Topics
Hillary Clinton commits to introducing amendment to overturn Citizens United
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 […]
Posted inElections, Open Government, Policy Topics
WAmend’s Initiative 735 certified to the 2016 Legislature, ballot, Secretary of State says
WAmend’s Initiative 735 — which would put Washington State on record in support of a federal constitutional amendment to end the legal fiction that corporations are people and money is speech — has been certified as an initiative to the 2016 Legislature, Secretary of State Kim Wyman’s office announced this morning. Wyman’s Communications Director David […]
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CarbonWA is paying a convicted forger and Tim Eyman pal to run I‑732 signature drive
The group working to qualify an initiative to the 2016 Washington State Legislature that would levy a tax on polluters and use the revenue to reduce other taxes is relying on the signature gathering services of a company run by a man previously convicted of forgery who has also done work for disgraced initiative promoter Tim Eyman, NPI has learned.
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Surprise! Tim Eyman shows up for I‑1366 editorial board meeting with Seattle Times
He’s back… sort of. Notorious initiative profiteer Tim Eyman emerged briefly from his self-imposed seclusion earlier today to attend a meeting with the editorial board of The Seattle Times to make his case for I‑1366, his latest and most destructive initiative yet, with extremist Republican State Representative Ed Orcutt in tow as his sidekick du jour. I‑1366 […]