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Relevance: 52% Posted on: March 4, 2011
The theory behind Washington State’s Senate Bill 5297 — now worming its way through Olympia — seems to be that the people can’t be trusted to legislate, so the more hurdles thrown up at the initiative process, the better. But the bill itself shows just the opposite, revealing its legislative supporters…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: June 26, 2019
Years ago, I dubbed Tim Eyman “America’s #1 freedom fighter,” and how does he repay me? Washington State’s anti-tax crusading initiative guru has gone and stolen my bread-and-butter issue, term limits . . . and married it up with another one of his tax initiatives. He’s calling Initiative 1648: Term…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: December 13, 2019
“It’s a government-on-government fight,” reports Seattle-based KOMO News, as the Pierce County Council voted 4-3 to provide assistance in defending Initiative 976 in court. The ballot measure, which limits car license fees among other provisions, passed 53 to 47 percent statewide last month, including a whopping 66 percent affirmative vote…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: October 23, 2019
Our Constitution guarantees that each state of the union provide a republican form of government. Does that mean that all that is prohibited is . . . monarchy? No. One very common form of modern governance is deeply anti-republican, requiring — at the very least — strict regulation to prevent…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: July 15, 2011
Josh Sutinen is 17. He can’t vote yet. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t having an effect on the politics of his hometown of Longview, Washington. After his father’s second valiant if unsuccessful attempt to get into the Evergreen State’s House of Representatives, Josh became fascinated with political change. Conveniently,…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: April 4, 2014
Mike Dunmire passed away last weekend. Mike helped me form the Liberty Initiative Fund, serving as an original board member. But he was best known as a key funder of Tim Eyman’s Washington State ballot initiatives. Indeed, Eyman’s incredible success at the ballot box — I once called him “America’s…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: February 7, 2019
The core idea behind the institutions of representative government — state legislatures, city councils, Congress — is that lawmakers, sometimes called “representatives,” endeavor to implement “the will of the people.” To do so . . . necessarily entails knowing the public’s preferences. Hmmm. How to find out what people want?…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 3, 2013
This morning I’ll stand in Washington State’s capitol in Olympia to turn in more than 340,000 voter signatures on petitions — enough to place Initiative 517 on the ballot next November. I’ll be there representing Citizens in Charge, the major funder of the initiative, joined by Eddie Agazarm, former head…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: April 23, 2018
Last Friday, Tim Eyman — the Evergreen State’s best-known ballot initiative practitioner — won an important court case. But he also scuttled an amazingly impressive compromise between state legislators, police, and the proponents of Initiative 940. The measure was written and promoted by De-Escalate Washington, a group that includes several…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: November 14, 2019
Tim Eyman strikes again. In deep blue Washington State, the ballot measure activist celebrated another Election Day victory last week with Initiative 976, limiting vehicle taxes. Not to mention Referendum 88, whereby voters kept a ban on government use of racial preferences, enacted via an initiative Eyman had co-authored two…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: August 24, 2019
Paul Jacob's recap of the week begins with a tale of press bias, insider powerlust, taxation, and . . . Tim Eyman. https://youtu.be/21W1IEWk0i8 This Week in Common Sense, Part One: August 23, 2019.
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 5, 2019
Three measures on ballots today are particularly worth watching. Two issues in Washington State represent the only citizen-initiated measures out of 32 propositions voters will see in eight states: Washington Referendum 88 allows voters to re-decide the issue of racial and gender preferences, so-called “affirmative action,” while Washington Initiative 976…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: January 28, 2008
Seems every November in Washington state, Tim Eyman of the aptly named Voters Want More Choices has an initiative on the ballot that’s dramatically outspent by the powerful interests who dominate the state’s legislature. And yet his initiative still wins. In recent years, each January, as the legislature convenes, here…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: July 11, 2011
Metropolitan mass transit systems run buses and light rail trains. There’s not much evidence they do it well. But boy, do they know how to spend money! Now that the economy has hit the skids, tax revenues are down and metro boards across the country are hurting for money. King…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: November 29, 2010
What an election year. It’s not just the drubbing dealt to many statist incumbents that warrants a little triumphalism. We can also cheer about ballot measures whose passage means the defeat of very specific attacks on the citizenry. Several local referendums targeted all those ticket-triggering red-light cameras that have been…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: February 8, 2011
Politicians seem to love what are called “red light cameras” — cameras that take pictures of cars that run red lights. And then ticket the registered owners. Citizens? Not so much. I’ve reported how Tim Eyman — an activist who usually sets his sights on tax increases — orchestrated a…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: November 5, 2015
While the Ohio measure to legalize marijuana did not pass, this week, the Washington State measure to wrest tax limitations out of a recalcitrant legislature did indeed succeed, with a 54 percent win. Win some, lose some. But in both these cases, there is some evidence for a general smartening…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: March 15, 2012
In the traffic snarl of political ideas, the liberating concept behind America seems as straightforward as the freeway: The people are the boss, with rights above government, and “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The people…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: December 19, 2016
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Relevance: 19% Posted on: September 12, 2012
It’s the silly season in politics, that special time when politicians pretend they like us better than the special interests that fund their campaigns. They bombard us with bold and expansive promises of their incredible abilities; they pledge their future fidelity to principle. From bitter experience, oft repeated, we know…