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Relevance: 100% Posted on: November 12, 2011
Tim Eyman, Washington State's most creative and dedicated initiative activist, summarizes his approach to politics and governance: "Consent of the governed" may indicate legitimacy, but "dissent" makes possible efficacy.
Relevance: 91% Posted on: January 19, 2011
We haven’t had enough Tim Eyman. I try to rotate the subjects of these Common Sense efforts, moving from freedom to democracy and back again, covering local and state issues as well as national and international ones. But certain topics make regular returns. Like Tim Eyman. In Washington State, he’s…
Relevance: 83% Posted on: June 24, 2015
Just when big government boosters in the Evergreen State thought it was safe to raise taxes, Tim Eyman and the group Voters Want More Choices have returned to the streets with Initiative 1366. When his previous and similar effort, I-1325, fizzled last year, opponents were ecstatic, celebrating Eyman’s perceived obsolescence.…
Relevance: 80% Posted on: September 3, 2017
This weekend at Townhall, Paul fleshed out the most recent Voters’ Pamphlet mini-scandal, from Friday. Click on over, then come back here. You know, for more voters’ pamphleteering. Tim Eyman’s Email: Help me get my B.S. in the voters pamphlet Everett Herald: Eyman’s ‘B.S.’ deemed too vulgar for voter’s pamphlet…
Relevance: 77% Posted on: January 4, 2011
Attack the outsider — the first resort of the unarmed arguer. My Townhall column praising Washington State anti-tax activist Tim Eyman raised the ire of Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat. He insinuates that it’s easy for me to like Eyman, for I never need to “catch the late boat after…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: May 2, 2008
Every year Tim Eyman in Washington state comes up with some new initiative to limit taxes or make government more accountable. So of course politicians and media people are furious with him. For years he’s been a member of the Republican Party. But not long ago he joined his county’s…
Relevance: 73% Posted on: November 15, 2018
There is an unmistakable connection between Washington State initiative guru Tim Eyman and New York City comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Mr. Seinfeld gave viewers what they wanted for nine seasons as the star of the self-named 1990s hit television sitcom, Seinfeld. It was slyly defined as “a show about nothing.” Meanwhile,…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: September 1, 2017
“Help me get my B.S. in the voters pamphlet,” read the subject-line of Tim Eyman’s email. Eyman is a practitioner of the art of the voter initiative, foremost in his state, Washington, and one of the most effective nationwide.* This particular call to action concerns the voter pamphlet statements about…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: November 11, 2011
Washington State activist Tim Eyman could celebrate election night. Several of his sponsored anti-red-light-camera initiatives won — in Bellingham and Longview and Monroe. But his statewide initiative seems to be going down. Eyman has become obsessed with transportation issues, and he’s receiving the usual push-back from insiders and editorialists. The…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: January 22, 2015
You can’t keep a good Eyman down. “Who says politicians don’t listen?” asked Tim Eyman in a recent email to his Washington State supporters. “OK, you got me: we normally do. ;) But not today.” Pleased as punch, Eyman announced the resurrection of the two-thirds requirement for legislators to raise taxes.…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: November 27, 2019
As the Democratic Party presidential campaign began heating up earlier this year, one of the stars faintly streaking across the sky was Washington State Governor Jay Inslee. In the over-populated ranks of presidential wannabes, he stood out not for being exceptionally nutty, but for so memorably presenting the new Nut…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: December 20, 2017
“Olympia can’t restrain itself,” Tim Eyman wrote the other day, a judgment on legislative irresponsibility hardly unique to the Evergreen State. Citizens around the country have cause to lament the difficulty of obtaining anything close to a good legislature. Too often the merely “bad” would constitute a significant improvement. Which…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: April 23, 2009
Artful exaggeration is a part of good writing. Take this example from Yakima Valley Business Times editor Bruce Smith: “All of us who think we already pay too many taxes should bow west toward Mukilteo at least once a day.” Smith did not figure he could set up a new…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: November 6, 2013
Washington State’s I-517 failed yesterday. Did demonization help assure its defeat? In the state’s Voters’ Pamphlet, the second item against the measure was “I-517 benefits Tim Eyman” because, it was alleged, the measure would allow Eyman to “double his output and increase his profits.” Eyman is a great guy, but…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: June 21, 2015
This weekend, your Common Sense advocate catches up the good folks at Townhall.com with the latest clever initiative on the West Coast to give citizens what they need to restrain government growth. Click on over. Come back for the background reading: Voters Want More Choices Initiative 1366 Townhall: “America’s No.…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: March 3, 2010
Times are tough; state revenues, down. So politicians have a choice: 1. Do the one thing economists definitely warn not to do, raise taxes; or 2. Do the one thing powerful lobbies say not to do, cut spending. In Washington State, guess which one politicians are doing. Washington’s governor and…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: June 23, 2015
He’s back. And he’s not running for president. (Not yet?) Just when big government boosters in the Evergreen State thought it was safe to raise taxes, Tim Eyman and the group Voters Want More Choices have returned to the streets with Initiative 1366. I-1366 is identical to Initiative 1325, a…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: April 22, 2018
A major win — a double win! — for citizens-in-charge government. Click on over to Townhall for the big story. And the come back here for a little more: The Stranger: Eyman Wins, Judge Orders Deadly Force Initiative to Go on the November Ballot Seattle Times: Washington lawmakers violated state…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: September 8, 2015
“Initiative 1366 is blackmail,” one plaintiff charged. No; it’s just political hardball. Washington State voters have cast their ballots five times (by initiative measure) to require a two-thirds vote of both houses of the state legislature, or a vote of the people, to increase taxes. Though the rule is neither…
Relevance: 53% Posted on: August 19, 2019
“If you lost count of how many new and higher taxes state lawmakers passed this year,” begins Jerry Cornfield’s recent column in the Everett Herald, “it was 12.” Cornfield doesn’t appear too distressed about the tax hikes, however, worrying instead that Evergreen State voters will be “awash in tax advisory…