From: gl4317@yahoo.com   
      
   XPost: alt.society.labor-unions, seattle.politics, alt.politics.democrats   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
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