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Minimum wage hike first initiative to submit sigs

Minimum wage hike first initiative to submit sigs

I-1433 sponsor Ariana Davis addresses the media after initiative signatures were delivered to the Elections Division Wednesday morning.  If last week was “Shark Week” on TV, this must be “Initiative Week” for our Elections Division. Signatures for Initiative 1433, the minimum wage measure, were submitted to the Elections Division office in Olympia Wednesday, the first of five initiative campaigns that scheduled turn-in appointments this week. Friday is the deadline. I-1433 sponsors said they turned in about 360,000 signatures. That’s far…

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WA initiative season underway

WA initiative season underway

As WA lawmakers prepare to open their session on Monday, the people’s process of writing laws by initiative got its start Friday. By mid-afternoon, 24 proposals were filed with the Secretary of State’s Elections Division, including 13 from initiative activist Tim Eyman. His measures deal with making it tougher to raise taxes in Olympia, bringing back $30 car tabs, express lane tolls, and other issues. Kurt Ludden of Seattle filed seven initiatives, dealing with medical marijuana, and the initiative process. …

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WA 2015 General Election certified — now on to 2016!

WA 2015 General Election certified — now on to 2016!

Assistant Secretary of State Mark Neary (left) signs an election document as Gov. Inslee looks on. Gov. Jay Inslee and Assistant Secretary of State Mark Neary made it official Wednesday, certifying the 2015 General Election returns. Over 1.5 million ballots, including thousands from military and overseas voters, were submitted during the voting period. The odd-year election included two state initiatives, two state House races, over 3,000 local government races and 166 measures. “This election put the limelight on local government…

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Eyman and his nemesis file dueling initiatives

Eyman and his nemesis file dueling initiatives

Flanked by Mike and Jack Fagan, Tim Eyman files his latest anti-tax initiative. Andrew Villeneuve, an Eyman opponent who also filed an initiative Wednesday, stands in the background. Initiative king Tim Eyman visited our Capitol office to file his statewide initiative to the 2016 Legislature that would limit the duration of tax increases to one year if not approved by either a supermajority of the Legislature, or by voters. But minutes before Eyman’s arrival, his liberal nemesis, Northwest Progressive Institute’s…

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I-1366 survives court challenge, but high court appeal looms

I-1366 survives court challenge, but high court appeal looms

King County Superior Court Judge Dean Lum has declined to block Initiative 1366 from the fall statewide ballot. Opponents of Tim Eyman’s anti-tax measure had tried to derail it from appearing on the ballot, asserting that it has an overarching purpose of amending the state constitutional, which cannot be done by initiative. Eyman’s plan would lower the state sales tax by one percentage point, from 6.5 to 5.5, unless lawmakers place a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2016 ballot to…

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Secretary Wyman asks court to allow vote on I-1366

Secretary Wyman asks court to allow vote on I-1366

Initiative checkers review I-1366 signatures earlier this summer. Secretary Wyman, the state’s chief elections officer, is urging King County Superior Court to allow a public vote this fall on Initiative 1366. Wyman said she takes no position on the initiative nor on whether it would be constitutional if approved by the voters. She said her interest is in defending the public’s right to vote on a measure that was qualified for the ballot via petitions signed by over 339,000 people….

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I-1366, I-1401 certified, heading to fall ballot

I-1366, I-1401 certified, heading to fall ballot

Assistant Secretary of State Mark Neary certifies I-1366 and I-1401. Two initiatives, one dealing with taxes and the other with endangered animals, officially have the green light to go onto the General Election ballot this fall. Assistant Secretary of State Mark Neary Thursday certified that Initiative 1366 and I-1401 both have enough valid signatures to be placed on the statewide ballot. I-1366, sponsored by initiative activist Tim Eyman, would make it harder for the Legislature to raise taxes. I-1401, backed…

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Non-binding tax advisory votes headed to WA ballot

Non-binding tax advisory votes headed to WA ballot

Four tax advisory votes will be on the statewide ballot this fall, including the transportation funding package, marijuana tax changes and closure of several tax preferences, Secretary of State Kim Wyman says. The votes, which are nonbinding, are an opportunity for voters to express support or opposition to revenue provisions in bills that passed in the recent legislative sessions. Legislators are not required to do anything with the results. The advisory votes are mandated under Tim Eyman’s voter-approved I-960. This…

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`Direct democracy’ sponsors eye ballot spot

`Direct democracy’ sponsors eye ballot spot

Two citizen initiative campaign submitted boxloads of petitions by the Friday deadline, and both appear to have an excellent shot at making the statewide ballot this fall. Tim Eyman, the state’s most prominent use of the initiative process, turned in what he and co-sponsors Jack and Mike Fagan estimated at at least 334,000 signatures for their Initiative 1366. That measure would direct the Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the 2016 ballot for ratification — or face a 1-cent…

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Initiative filing season under way

Initiative filing season under way

Around here, January’s arrival doesn’t mean just a new year, it also means the start of another initiative filing season. Filing for Initiatives to the People opened Jan. 3. Registered voters can file initiatives here through July 2. Thirty-seven initiatives have been filed as of Friday morning, 17 of them by initiative king Tim Eyman. Of the 37, 29 have been assigned numbers. Go here to see the initiatives filed so far. In Washington State, any registered voter may propose new…

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