Election official: Citizen legislating is public business
Initiative activist Tim Eyman has been rebuffed in his attempt to overturn the Office of Secretary of State’s policy of treating initiative and referendum petitions as releasable public records. That question is, of course, being litigated in federal court as we speak (or blog). Social conservatives who oppose the state’s new domestic partnership law have secured a federal court order blocking release of Referendum 71 petitions. Secretary Sam Reed, backed by the counsel of Attorney General Rob McKenna, has headed…