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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…
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…
Relevance: 17% Posted on: March 16, 2019
Tim Eyman The core idea behind the institutions of representative government — state legislatures, city councils, Congress — is that lawmakers, sometimes referred to as “representatives,” should endeavor to implement “the will of the people.”Right? Stop laughing. To be such a ‘servant of the people’ necessarily entails knowing the public’s preferences.Hmmm.…
Relevance: 12% Posted on: June 24, 2015
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