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| Excerpt: | Initiative 1929, sponsored by former Dino Rossi adviser J. Vander Stoep, is dead and no effort will be made to organize an eleventh hour signature drive to qualify it for the November 2022 ballot. |
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| Published at: | 5:40 PM on Friday, June 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Standing outside the Secretary of State's Elections Annex under a covered walkway, Eyman staged a repeat performance of the event he orchestrated last autumn, in which he made a similar public plea for rich right wing funders to pony up megabucks to allow him to run a new initiative to get rid of Washington State's new capital gains tax on the wealthy |
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| Published at: | 5:04 PM on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | I-1929, sponsored by Republican operative J. Vander Stoep, seeks to completely repeal Engrossed Second Substitute Bill 5096, approved in 2021 by the Washington State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee. |
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| Published at: | 5:53 PM on Thursday, April 28th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The committee, helmed by longtime Republican operative J. Vander Stoep, has not disclosed its plans to the public, but its aim appears to be to qualify a measure to the November 2022 statewide ballot that would completely repeal ESSB 5096, the popular 2021 law that levied a capital gains tax on the wealthy to fund early learning, childcare, and K-12 education. |
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| Published at: | 7:57 PM on Sunday, April 10th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fiscal Responsibility, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | Tim Eyman's bankruptcy is now a Chapter 7 case, or "straight bankruptcy," rather than the reorganization type. A trustee will now attempt to sell Tim Eyman's nonexempt assets to satisfy his debts. |
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| Published at: | 12:24 PM on Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Other Tags: | State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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| Excerpt: | The convicted chair thief and serial public disclosure law offender is supposed to be paying $10,000 every month to the state treasury, but has stopped doing so and is on the verge of default. |
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| Published at: | 9:20 AM on Friday, October 29th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Other Tags: | State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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| Excerpt: | The notorious chair chief and serial public disclosure law offender is hoping some right wing billionaires will open up their checkbooks to allow him to qualify a measure to the 2022 Washington State ballot that would reverse all of the recent efforts to balance the state's tax code. |
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| Published at: | 10:25 PM on Thursday, September 9th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | The failed gubernatorial candidate and dishonest initiative promoter claims to be out of money and wants his friends to bail him out. Again. |
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| Published at: | 9:05 PM on Friday, July 9th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Litigation, Open Government |
| Other Tags: | Campaign Disclosure |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 4:11 PM on Monday, February 15th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Open Government |
| Other Tags: | Money in Politics, Public Records |
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| Excerpt: | 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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| Published at: | 12:44 PM on Friday, February 12th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Core Encyclopedia Topics, Open Government |
| Other Tags: | Campaign Disclosure, Money in Politics, Public Records |
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| Excerpt: | Eyman must pay a $2.6 million fine and is now prohibited from flying solo as an officer of a political committee, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Dixon decreed. |
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| Published at: | 6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Other Tags: | State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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| Excerpt: | Eyman, an extremely vocal opponent of mask wearing, claimed that wearing a mask distracts him. Eyman attempted to justify his request by telling the court he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). |
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| Published at: | 4:30 PM on Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Other Tags: | State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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| Excerpt: | Washington State's 2020 gubernatorial race might as well be ancient history. Having failed to defeat Jay Inslee, Tim Eyman has gone back to griping about I-976's demise. |
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| Published at: | 9:30 AM on Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Litigation |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot, WA-Gov |
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| Excerpt: | Suspense and savage political warfare over the outcome of the 2020 presidential race may take days or even weeks, but a blue wave crashed ashore in this Washington minutes after the 8 PM deadline for returning ballots. |
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| Published at: | 12:30 AM on Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 |
| Written by: | Joel Connelly |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | WA-Ballot, WA-Exec, WA-Gov, WA-Leg |
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