The Cascadia Advocate is written by the staff, board, and contributors of the Northwest Progressive Institute, a regionally focused nonprofit working from Washington, Oregon, & Idaho to constructively transform our world through insightful research and imaginative advocacy.
NPI was founded in August 2003 and is based in Redmond, Washington.
| Excerpt: | After getting a hearing on the second day of session earlier this week, the bill was reported out of the Senate State Government & Elections Committee with a "do pass" majority recommendation. |
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| Published at: | 5:45 PM on Friday, January 13th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Legislative Advocacy |
| Other Tags: | Tim Eyman's Push Polls |
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| Excerpt: | Read the written version of the testimony prepared by NPI's founder and executive director in support of NPI's 2023 bill to repeal Tim Eyman's "advisory votes." |
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| Published at: | 2:30 PM on Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections, Legislative Advocacy |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, Research Poll Findings, Tim Eyman's Push Polls |
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| Excerpt: | A pro se lawsuit recently filed by right wing provocateur Tim Eyman that sought to load up Washingtonians' 2022 ballots with additional anti-tax propaganda has ended in failure after the State Supreme Court issued a special order deeming Eyman's legal challenge untimely, thus putting the kibosh on his scheme. |
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| Published at: | 4:45 PM on Friday, August 19th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Elections |
| Other Tags: | Fair Elections, WA-Ballot |
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| Excerpt: | A grand settlement backed by the estate's court-appointed trustee and agreed to by all the parties involved in the right wing activist's Chapter 7 case has been submitted to Bankruptcy Court Judge Marc Barreca for final approval next month, records recently filed with the court and examined by NPI show. |
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| Published at: | 4:47 PM on Friday, July 8th, 2022 |
| Written by: | Andrew Villeneuve |
| Categories: | Litigation |
| Other Tags: | State of Washington v. Tim Eyman |
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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: | Litigation, Open Government, Policy Topics |
| 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: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| 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: | Open Government, Policy Topics |
| Other Tags: | Campaign Disclosure, Money in Politics, Public Records |
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