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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yet another county has joined the NO on Initiative 1033 camp. This week, it's Okanogan, where Initiative 1033 had previously been passing by just a handful of votes, and which we predicted was the most likely candidate to switch sides. Today, it finally happened, as Okanogan's Auditor posted new numbers from the state's largest county by area. Take a look: Initiative 1033, Okanogan County Yes: 5,244...
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Majority Rules Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Periodically it seems one of the taunts made to Tim Eyman has been to urge him to run for office and then see how he would deal with the reality of his tax cuts and the public demand for services. Well this year, one of his principal sidekicks, Mike Fagan of Spokane did just that. And he lost decisively. It's one thing to propose radical anti-government proposals like Initiative 1033. It's quite...
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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Let’s make Initiative 1033’s vote in November the ultimate tea party. " - Tim Eyman, April 15th, 2009 Tim Eyman's most destructive initiative yet has met a fitting fate. Voters across Washington State - from Clallam County to Asotin County - are overwhelmingly rejecting the Mukilteo watch salesman's latest scam by a collective total of 55% to 45% as of this hour,...
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HorsesAss.Org (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Tim Eyman's government limiting I-1033, Nov. 2009 Tim Eyman's government limiting I-960, Nov. 2007 I’m going to spend a lot of time over the next few days talking about trends, and what that predicts for the handful of close races in today’s election, but the maps above clearly illustrate what I believe to be one of the most gratifying trends demonstrated by voters today....
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Majority Rules Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tim Eyman's Initiative 1033 is still going down the drain by a decisive margin. The latest vote count on the Washington Secretary of State's website has it 56% NO to 44% YES. Ironically its symbolically what Grover Norquist, the national anti-tax fanatic that Eyman emulates, wanted to do with government - reduce it to a size he could drown in a bathtub and put down the drain. Instead...
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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Governor Chris Gregoire has released a statement (via email to NPI) on the overwhelming defeat of Tim Eyman's most destructive initiative ever: I am pleased that the voters appear to have rejected Initiative 1033. Voters understood that this misguided proposal would have precluded our ability to recover from these extraordinarily difficult economic circumstances and would have made providing...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
SPOKANE, Wash. -- A partner in Tim Eyman's initiative campaigns, Mike Fagan, has apparently lost a bid for a seat on the Spokane City Council. The Spokesman-Review reports he's losing Tuesday's race for an open seat to Amber Waldref.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A partner in Tim Eyman's initiative campaigns, Mike Fagan, has apparently lost a bid for a seat on the Spokane City Council. The Spokesman-Review reports he's losing Tuesday's race for an open seat to Amber Waldref.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Tim Eyman's latest initiative, aimed at controlling government spending and reducing taxes, appeared to be losing in early returns Tuesday.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Initiative 1033, the Tim Eyman-backed effort to cap city, county and state revenue increases, was failing in early returns Tuesday night.
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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... how tough it is to run a city. He'll come to appreciate how awful, manipulative, and dangerous Tim Eyman's free lunch initiatives really are. He will learn that governing well means listening carefully and being accessible to the people he serves. He'll come face to face with the costs and complications of implementing new ideas. And he will realize how challenging it will be to not only...
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I Thought a Think (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
As I sit here on Saturday, I-1033 is only 15 votes away from failing in Okanogan County. North Central Washington, the heart of Conservative country, where the best government is less government, Okanogan County may end up failing Tim Eyman's latest anti-tax initiative. That's incredible. It's even more incredible when you look at the rest of the map: Look east of the Cascade Curtain. Lincoln,...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
One of the more underplayed stories of Election 2009 concerns Tim Eyman's latest government-slamming initiative and the voting in several Washington counties where he used to be king. Click on this handy Secretary of State map showing where Eyman's initiative 1033 passed and where it failed throughout the state. Many counties in Eastern Washington have changed dramatically over the years...
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Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Amazing! A little less than forty eight hours after Election Night, Pierce County has finally flipped and joined most of the rest of the State of Washington in saying NO to Tim Eyman's Initiative 1033. Pierce gained notoriety last year for being the only county to (narrowly) support Tim Eyman's misguided Initiative 1033. As of a few minutes ago when it reported numbers for today, Pierce...
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Strange Bedfellows (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As votes from Tuesday get counted, professional initiative guru Tim Eyman is watching his most reliable bastions of support "go South."
