Sponsored by Senator Patty Kuderer (D‑48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland), Senate Bill 5082 would get rid of the push polls and replace them with truthful, useful information about the state’s finances, accessible from the official legislative website and the voter’s pamphlet via a QR code and URL.
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Posted inMedia & Culture
Seattle Times endorses NPI’s legislation to repeal statewide “advisory votes”
Titled “Boot confusing advisory votes from WA ballots,” this is a fresh contender for our team’s favorite Seattle Times editorial. It’s well written, has compelling opening and concluding passages, and the logic that holds it together is sound.
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VICTORY! Washington State Senate again passes bill to abolish Tim Eyman’s push polls
A Northwest Progressive Institute bill that would advance voting justice in Washington by getting rid of Tim Eyman’s “advisory votes” has sailed out of the Washington State Senate after receiving a bipartisan vote of support.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
NPI-requested bill to repeal Eyman’s push polls moves out of Senate State Government
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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NPI to Legislature: Let’s make voting in WA easier by abolishing Eyman’s “advisory votes”
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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Tim Eyman’s lawsuit to force more anti-tax propaganda onto 2022 ballots gets quashed
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.
Posted inLitigation
Grand settlement agreed to by the parties in Tim Eyman’s Chapter 7 bankruptcy case
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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Mark Funk admits that initiative to overturn capital gains tax on the wealthy is kaput
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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Tim Eyman again begs for some benefactors to step forth and revive his initiative business
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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Initiative to cut taxes for the rich gets a ballot title: Judge picks AGO’s alternative version
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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Big money is flowing into a right wing ballot campaign to repeal state capital gains tax
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.
Posted inLitigation
Judge Marc Barreca approves conversion of Tim Eyman’s bankruptcy case to Chapter 7
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.
Posted inLitigation
Tim Eyman isn’t making his required monthly payments, so the State of Washington wants a Chapter 11 trustee to be appointed
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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Tim Eyman publicly pleads with wealthy right wingers for money to revive initiative factory
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.