From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   XPost: alt.society.labor-unions, seattle.politics, alt.politics.democrats   
      
   On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:58:45 -0700, Glen Labah    
   wrote:   
      
   >In article <1fv7lbh25n4gisob9qgmloaoe3fqmqu75r@4ax.com>,   
   > None of the Above  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Tell us how many WA tax limitation initiatives have been passed   
   >> overwhelmingly by the voters, just to have (mostly) lib legislators   
   >> and judges tell us that we really meant to do the opposite, so they   
   >> can ignore/overturn the will of the people.   
   >   
   >   
   >Some of them have been overturned because they were not constitutional.   
   >Remember that neat little thing that says that ballot measures aren't   
   >supposed to monkey around with more than one section of the   
   >constitution?  Most of Eyman's recent efforts don't obey that particular   
   >detail of the law.   
   >   
   >Quite a number of them remain in effect, including the one that requires   
   >that SoundTransit get state level approval for a local tax.   
   >   
   >Oh, yeah, and they already have approval for a transit tax, but they   
   >can't use that one because the legislature approved it for use on any   
   >form of transportation except light rail. Since Link is light rail it   
   >doesn't work for them. They have to get state authority to ask for a   
   >different tax authority, then they have to come up with a proposal, and   
   >then they have to go to the voters with a proposal for them to approve.   
   >   
   >The Republican Party in Oregon and Washington like to complain about the   
   >fact that government doesn't work, and every time a member of that party   
   >gets elected in these states they work very hard at trying to make   
   >government as expensive and inefficient as they are able to.   
      
   "Democrats are . . . the party that says government can make you   
   richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn.   
   Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then   
   they get elected and prove it."  - P.J. O'Rourke   
      
   Swill   
      
   >There are states that actually have effective Republican parties.  Not   
   >here.  Not now.   
   >   
   >   
   >> Tim Eyman may be a bit slimy, but he sure keeps the left's blood   
   >> pressure in the stroke zone.   
   >   
   >   
   >Tim Eyman has a perfect racket going. He cons conservatives into   
   >supporting his ballot measures and living off the donations, but then in   
   >the end the ballot measure goes against a key limitation that was passed   
   >by voters.  He knows damn well the stuff he proposes isn't   
   >constitutional.   
   >   
   >This current proposal that he has put forward changes three parts of the   
   >state constitution, and it will ultimately have the same troubles as his   
   >other recent efforts.   
   --   
   S. E. Cupp has characterized Trump as wearing the Republican party   
   like a rented tuxedo.  When the prom is over, it's going to end up on   
   the floor with the liquor stains and cigarette butts.   
      
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