Thanks to a mix of new and old wealthy benefactors who have been filling his campaign coffers with megabucks, Tim Eyman appears to have all the money he needs to buy his way onto this November’s ballot with the destructive, hostage-taking initiative that he tried and failed to qualify last year. Reports just filed with the […]
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Newly-filed reports show Tim Eyman received another massive cash infusion in March
Last night, as we were holding our seventh Spring Fundraising Gala on Mercer Island, Tim Eyman’s treasurer was filing his campaign committee’s monthly reports with the Public Disclosure Commission, as required by law. The new reports show that Eyman has raised nearly a million dollars for his latest and most destructive initiative, I‑1366, which would wipe […]
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Push poll creator Tim Eyman doesn’t want fiscal impact disclosures added to ballot titles
A bill that would add fiscal impact disclosures to the ballot titles of many future initiatives has drawn the ire of political profiteer Tim Eyman only a week after passing the Washington State Senate by a three-to-one margin. Substitute Senate Bill 5715, originally prime sponsored by Senator Joe Fain (R‑47th District; Kent, Covington, Auburn) seeks […]
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Meet Tim Eyman’s new wealthy benefactor: Developer Clyde Holland of Holland Partners
The gears of Tim Eyman’s initiative factory appear to be spinning with full force once again following a major infusion of cash from two wealthy right wing developers, new reports filed with the Public Disclosure Commission show. The campaign committee for I‑1366, Eyman’s initiative for 2015, reported that for February of 2015 (its first month of […]
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Hearing on SB 5375 turns into The Pam Roach Show — with special guest Tim Eyman
Yesterday morning, as some readers may have heard on Twitter, I made a special trip down to Olympia with the intention of testifying in favor of Senate Bill 5375, one of the Northwest Progressive Institute’s priority bills for this session. I was hoping to be able to explain to the Senate Government Operations and Security […]
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Ridership on Sound Transit’s Central Link light rail line keeps climbing, defying naysayers
Back in mid-July, we at NPI joined with Sound Transit and many pro-transit activists to celebrate the five year anniversary of Central Link, which opened to the public on a sunny Saturday morning to thousands of eager riders. More than sixty months later, Link is doing spectacularly well. Ridership just keeps going up, pleasantly exceeding […]
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American Academy of Pediatrics condemns Tim Eyman for use of obscene, violent image
Tim Eyman’s decision to use an obscene, repulsive image to illustrate a political attack email against King County Executive Dow Constantine (which I wrote about a few days ago) has drawn outrage and condemnation from many quarters, in addition to further cementing Eyman’s well-deserved reputation as a purveyor of destructive initiatives and practitioner of toxic […]
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Tim Eyman once again goes fishing for media coverage, using an obscene image as bait
Tim Eyman may not have an initiative on the ballot this year, but he has no intention of keeping a low profile this autumn, as he demonstrated yesterday when he went fishing for media coverage using an obscene image for story bait. In an email to reporters sent yesterday afternoon, Eyman engaged in quite a show […]
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Tim Eyman wants $2.2 million for statewide initiative to repeal $15/hour minimum wage
Remember back in June when Tim Eyman filed a statewide initiative to prevent cities like Seattle from raising the minimum wage above the level set by state law? Several media outlets, including the Puget Sound Business Journal, erroneously assumed — and then wrongfully reported — that Eyman was already collecting signatures for the measure, when in […]
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With I‑1325 in the dustbin, it’s once again time to update Tim Eyman’s Failure Chart
Many years ago, during Permanent Defense’s early years, we launched a resource for journalists and citizens called Tim Eyman’s Failure Chart, which contains a list of every initiative and referendum Eyman has attempted to qualify for the ballot, along with the year, the number of the measure, and the outcome. The chart was created to […]
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Only three statewide initiatives likely to show up on Washington’s November 2014 ballot
As of next Saturday, we will be one month ahead of the August Top Two election and four months ahead of the November general election, which this year fall on the fifth days of each month. Because July 5th is a Saturday, and because July 4th is a holiday, that means the deadline for submitting […]
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It’s official: Percentage-wise, Initiative 517 is Tim Eyman’s biggest-ever defeat
While we won’t have final numbers until the 2013 general election is certified in a few weeks, we can say that as of today, Initiative 517 ranks as Tim Eyman’s biggest-ever defeat, percentage-wise. The vote against 517 statewide continues to climb, propelled by an incredibly strong no vote in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, which […]
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The failure of I‑517 could be Tim Eyman’s biggest electoral defeat, percentage-wise
Earlier today, I suggested that King County’s vote against Tim Eyman’s Initiative 517 might soon cross the seventy percent threshold. And sure enough, this afternoon, it did… more quickly than I had expected it to. The trend statewide is not much different. As of late last night, I‑517 was being rejected, 60.03% to 39.97%. As of […]
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King County’s record vote against Eyman’s I‑517 could climb above seventy percent
Though most of Washington’s thirty-nine counties are breaking strongly against I‑517, nowhere is the outcome more lopsided than in King County, which has voted down most of Tim Eyman’s initiatives over the years. Voters in King are defeating I‑517 by an enormous margin. In fact, the gap between the yes vote and the no vote is […]