Posted inCivil Liberties, Meta, Policy Topics

Big vote on marriage equality tomorrow

In a mat­ter of hours, Wash­ing­ton’s Sen­ate is set to take up Ed Mur­ray’s bill, SB 6239, to make mar­riage equal­i­ty the law of the land across the Ever­green State. At least twen­­ty-five sen­a­tors (includ­ing some Repub­li­cans) have already com­mit­ted to vote in favor of the bill, so it is expect­ed to pass. How­ev­er, if you […]

Posted inAnnouncements, Elections, Open Government, Policy Topics

Permanent Defense launches Eye on Money

This morn­ing, we’re proud to announce we have added a new tool to Per­ma­nent Defense’s web­site called Eye on Mon­ey, which can be found under Research & Reports. Eye on Mon­ey uses Stop­­Greed-style charts to visu­al­ly break down con­tri­bu­tions to Tim Eyman’s ini­tia­tive fac­to­ry. As the chart for Tim Eyman’s cur­rent mea­sure shows, the vast […]

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Tim Eyman tries to rile up his supporters with Permanent Defense analysis

On Wednes­day, we pub­lished a report over at Per­ma­nent Defense ana­lyz­ing Tim Eyman’s first two months of fundrais­ing, enti­tled, “Vot­ers Want More Choic­es begins 2011 with no wealthy bene­fac­tor in sight”. That report appar­ent­ly hit a nerve, because Tim Eyman is present­ly send­ing out a mass-email to his sup­port­ers quot­ing it in full and asking […]