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Tim Eyman
Tim Eyman (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Washington. He lost in the primary on August 4, 2020.
On February 12, 2020, Eyman announced that he would run for governor as a Republican. He had initially declared his candidacy as an independent.[1]
Eyman is a political activist who has sponsored or worked on a number of ballot initiative campaigns in the state of Washington each year since at least 1998.
Biography
Tim Eyman graduated in 1988 from Washington State University with a degree in business.[2] Eyman lived in Mukilteo, Washington as of 2019. Eyman serves as the chair of Permanent Offense.
Eyman has sponsored or worked on a number of ballot initiative campaigns in the state of Washington each year since at least 1998. Of the Eyman initiatives that have been filed, 17 qualified for the ballot. As of 2019, eight of Eyman's measures were either partly or entirely overturned. Talking about initiatives, Eyman said, "Initiatives have two kinds of power. They have the power to create a law that forces elected officials to do something they'd rather not do. There's also the lobbying power that they have — the power of the vote itself."[3]
Elections
2020
See also: Washington gubernatorial election, 2020
General election
General election for Governor of Washington
Incumbent Jay Inslee defeated Loren Culp in the general election for Governor of Washington on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jay Inslee (D) | 56.6 | 2,294,243 |
 | Loren Culp (R) | 43.1 | 1,749,066 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.3 | 13,145 | ||
| Total votes: 4,056,454 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of Washington
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of Washington on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jay Inslee (D) | 50.1 | 1,247,916 |
| ✔ | | Loren Culp (R) | 17.4 | 433,238 |
 | Joshua Freed (R) | 8.9 | 222,553 | |
 | Tim Eyman (R) | 6.4 | 159,495 | |
 | Raul Garcia (R) | 5.4 | 135,045 | |
 | Phil Fortunato (R) | 4.0 | 99,265 | |
 | Don Rivers (D) | 1.0 | 25,601 | |
 | Leon Lawson (Trump Republican Party) | 0.9 | 23,073 | |
 | Liz Hallock (G) | 0.9 | 21,537 | |
 | Cairo D'Almeida (D) | 0.6 | 14,657 | |
 | Anton Sakharov (Trump Republican Party) | 0.6 | 13,935 | |
 | Nate Herzog (Pre-2016 Republican Party) | 0.5 | 11,303 | |
| Gene Hart (D) | 0.4 | 10,605 | ||
| Omari Tahir-Garrett (D) | 0.4 | 8,751 | ||
| Ryan Ryals (Unaffiliated) | 0.3 | 6,264 | ||
 | Henry Dennison (Socialist Workers Party) | 0.2 | 5,970 | |
 | GoodSpaceGuy (Trump Republican Party) | 0.2 | 5,646 | |
 | Richard Carpenter (R) | 0.2 | 4,962 | |
| Elaina Gonzalez (Independent) | 0.2 | 4,772 | ||
| Matthew Murray (R) | 0.2 | 4,489 | ||
 | Thor Amundson (Independent) | 0.1 | 3,638 | |
 | Bill Hirt (R) | 0.1 | 2,854 | |
| Martin Wheeler (R) | 0.1 | 2,686 | ||
| Ian Gonzales (R) | 0.1 | 2,537 | ||
 | Joshua Wolf (New Liberty Party) | 0.1 | 2,315 | |
 | Cregan Newhouse (Unaffiliated) | 0.1 | 2,291 | |
| Brian Weed (Unaffiliated) | 0.1 | 2,178 | ||
 | Alex Tsimerman (Standup-America Party) | 0.1 | 1,721 | |
| Tylor Grow (R) | 0.1 | 1,509 | ||
 | Dylan Nails (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,470 | |
| Craig Campbell (Unaffiliated) | 0.0 | 1,178 | ||
| William Miller (American Patriot Party) | 0.0 | 1,148 | ||
| Cameron Vessey (Unaffiliated) | 0.0 | 718 | ||
| Winston Wilkes (Propertarianist Party) | 0.0 | 702 | ||
 | David Blomstrom (Fifth Republic Party) | 0.0 | 519 | |
| David Voltz (Cascadia Labour Party) | 0.0 | 480 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 1,938 | ||
| Total votes: 2,488,959 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mathew Mackenzie (R)
- Phillip Bailey (D)
- Asa Palagi (Independent)
- Lisa Thomas (Unaffiliated)
- Matthew Heines (Unaffiliated)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Tim Eyman did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Ballot measure activity
Measures that qualified for the ballot
Of all the initiatives Tim Eyman has filed, 17 appeared on the statewide ballot. Of the measures that appeared on the ballot, six were defeated and 11 were approved. Of the approved measures, eight were partially or entirely overturned by the courts.
Ballot measure activity (current)
Washington Initiative 976, Limits on Vehicle Taxes Initiative (2019)
Tim Eyman sponsored Washington Initiative 976, the Limits on Motor Vehicle Taxes and Fees Measure, which was on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 5, 2019. It was approved. Initiative 976 was designed to set annual license fees for vehicles weighing under 10,000 pounds at $30 except voter-approved charges, base vehicle taxes on the Kelley Blue Book rather than the manufacturer's suggested retail price, and otherwise limit taxes and fees related to transportation. Eyman wrote, "Recently, state and local governments have jacked [car tab prices] back up again. Worst of all, they’re dishonestly calculating the value of our vehicles to artificially inflate the taxes we’re forced to pay. We get rid of the vehicles taxes and fees imposed since our earlier $30 tabs initiatives passed and explicitly repeal that dishonest vehicle valuation schedule. So it’ll cost you and your friends and family just $30 per year to license your cars, trucks, vans, SUVs, motorcycles and other vehicles. $30 means $30."[4]
Ballot measure activity, 1997-2018
Tim Eyman has proposed, has sponsored, or was otherwise involved with initiatives every year since at least 1998. Most of all, his initiatives concerned two subjects: taxes and transportation. A recurrent initiative sponsored by Eyman through the years concerns $30 car tabs (vehicle license fees). Every year between 2003 and 2018, Tim Eyman filed multiple versions of initiatives related to taxes and/or transportation. More often than not, initiatives related to $30 car tabs were filed but did not make it to the ballot, which was the case in 2009 and 2012-2018. Eyman sponsored many initiatives that were designed to require a two-thirds vote in the Legislature or voter approval for any tax increases. All four times they've made the ballot—in 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2015—the initiatives were approved and later overturned.
Detailed below is a comprehensive history of Tim Eyman’s initiatives in chronological order from 1997 to 2018 (with historical measures at the top, descending to the most recent measures at the bottom).
1997-1998Eyman launched his first initiative, Washington I-200, in 1997. Its goal was to ban racial preferences (prohibit affirmative action) in state higher education and government hiring and contracting. At first, Eyman had difficulty collecting enough signatures to place the initiative on the ballot, so he sought help from local talk show host John Carlson. After Carlson took over, the initiative received enough signatures to earn placement on the ballot. In November of 1998, voters approved the initiative.[5] Initiative 1000 was filed for 2019 to reinstate affirmative action. Regarding I-1000, Eyman said, "Voters have accepted the principle that the government should treat everyone equally, without different rules for different races."[6] 1999In 1999, Eyman tried again, with Washington I-695, which proposed replacing the old MVET with a flat $30 fee for yearly car registration fees, called "car tabs," while simultaneously requiring voter approval for any increases in any tax or fee increases at the state or local level. It was supported by the public but opposed by state officials. Enlisting a number of volunteers from different regions of the state, and working with fellow activists Monte Benham and Jack Fagan, Eyman succeeded in getting I-695 on the ballot, and it passed, despite opposition from a broad coalition—including some businesses, some labor groups, environmentalists, civic groups, and other organizations—who argued that the loss of revenue would wreak havoc on state government. Some major newspapers in Washington called for its rejection, and some cities, including officials in Seattle, passed resolutions opposing the initiative. After I-695 was passed, opponents contested the initiative in court. The initiative was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court on the grounds that it violated the state's single-subject rule. Fearing voter backlash, the Washington State Legislature, with the cooperation of then-Governor Gary Locke, quickly acted to maintain the lower car tabs.[7][8] 2000After I-695, Eyman formed a political committee known as Permanent Offense. He began working on Washington I-722, which was designed to cap property taxes at 2 percent. With the support of groups such as the state asphalt pavers' union, he also sponsored Washington I-745, which would have mandated that 90 percent of all transportation funding go to roads. Unlike I-695, I-722 and I-745 were placed on the ballot largely through the use of paid signature gatherers. While there was some initial concern by his opponents, the courts in Washington had ruled that paid signature gathering is protected by the First Amendment. I-722 and I-745 both appeared on the November 2000 ballot. I-722 passed but I-745 was rejected. Political opponents contested I-722 in court, and it was overturned on the same grounds as I-695: that it was unconstitutional because it violated the single-subject rule.[9][10] 2001For the 2001 ballot in Washington, Eyman focused on Washington I-747, which imposed a 1 percent cap on property tax growth in Washington. The measure was approved and then overturned. I-747 passed despite well-funded opposition. Opponents argued that it passed because voters did not realize that public services would actually be cut. Supporters said that those same services and costs were unnecessary and could not be justified.[11] Opponents then said that Eyman had received help from the Code Revisor's Office in drafting the initiative and sued to force disclosure of the work the code revisor did. They won that battle in May 2002. The initiative, which had gone into effect after the election, was overruled by King County Judge Mary Roberts on June 13, 2006. Roberts argued, "The voters were incorrectly led to believe they were voting to amend I-722. The voters were misled as to the nature and content of the law to be amended, and the effect of the amendment upon it. The Washington Constitution forbids this."[12] On November 8, 2007, the Washington Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote invalidated I-747 in the case of Washington Citizens Action v. State, asserting that the state's voters did not understand what they were voting for.[13]
2002After the November 2001 election, Eyman began work on his next initiative, Initiative 776, which he called the "son of 695." It aimed to cut local car tabs fees, which I-695 and the Legislature did not remove earlier. The local car tab fees funded regional transportation in four Washington counties, including Sound Transit, a multi-county transportation agency in the Puget Sound area. The measure was approved, passing with 51% in favor. In 2003, King County Superior Court judge Mary Yu ruled against I-776, finding that it violated the state's single-subject rule because it sought "to achieve two unrelated purposes" -- to set license fees at $30 and to encourage a public revote on Sound Transit's light rail program." According to Tim Eyman, this ruling was later reversed by the state supreme court. I-776 was designed to require that license tab fees be $30 per year for motor vehicles under 10,000 pounds. Certain local-option vehicle excise taxes, such as those levied by Sound Transit, were successfully repealed by the measure. In 2006, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the section 6 of the initiative, which concerned repealing motor vehicle fees levied by Sound Transit, violated Section 23 of Article I of the Washington State Constitution which specifies that no law "impairing the obligations of contracts shall ever be passed." I-776 was found to have no legal effect of preventing Sound Transit from continuing to fulfill its contractual obligation to levy the MVET for so long as the bonds remained outstanding.[14][15][16] Also on the ballot in 2002 was Referendum 51. Eyman said, “We lobbied hard and succeeded at getting R-51, the $8 billion transportation tax increase, put to a public vote. Special interest groups, politicians and the press wanted to pass it in Olympia. Voters rejected it 62 percent to 38 percent, so thanks to our efforts, an $8 billion transportation tax increase was never implemented. In 2003, Locke & the Legislature ignored the voters’ rejection of R-51’s $8 billion increase, and unilaterally imposed a $4 billion increase and blocked any attempt by citizens to challenge it.. but at least their $4 billion tax increase is $4 billion less than the $8 billion the voters rejected six months earlier. In other words, the net effect of our battles succeeded at saving taxpayers $4 billion.”[17] 2003In 2003, Eyman and co-sponsors filed multiple initiatives regarding light rails, property tax, and Initiative 807, which would have required the legislature to acquire a supermajority vote or the approval of voters for any tax increases. No Eyman measures qualified for the ballot in 2003. 2004Property tax cut:
In 2004, Eyman announced Initiative 864, his refined initiative which aimed to cut local property taxes by 25 percent. Opponents called the proposal outrageous, saying it would cut funding to public services such as libraries, pools, parks, fire districts, and police departments. The idea for I-864 was originally announced in June 2003, but from July 2003 to January 2004, Eyman collected money to support his efforts. From January 2004 to July 2004, Eyman collected money for I-864 specifically. The initiative died on July 2, 2004. The group gathered about 155,000 signatures, short of the 198,000 valid signatures required for the Washington ballot in 2004. Critics, such as Andrew Villeneuve of Permanent Defense, Steve Zemke of Taxpayers For Washington's Future, David Goldstein of TaxSanity.org and Christian Sinderman, a Democratic campaign consultant, were eager to attribute Eyman's defeat to what they believed to be a shrinking base of supporters. Slot machines: In March 2004, Eyman unveiled Initiative 892, a proposal to allow "electronic scratch ticket machines," otherwise known as slot machines, beyond Washington's tribal casinos. I-892 was embraced by the entertainment and gambling industry, which provided all of its funding, and it subsequently earned a place on the ballot in July 2004. Critics again organized a campaign against I-892 to fight the measure on the ballot. The campaign included groups such as Permanent Defense, TaxSanity.org, Taxpayers For Washington's Future, the Christian Coalition, Association of Washington Churches and Futurewise. Voters defeated I-892 with over 60 percent voting against the initiative. Eyman was a consultant to the sponsors of the measure.[18] 2005After the defeat of Initiative 892 in November of 2004, Eyman immediately set to work on his next initiative, which eventually became Performance Audits of Government Initiative 900. Eyman continued to promote I-900 throughout the winter and into the spring. Eyman argued, “isn’t it worth spending the first $10 million of our tax money to learn whether the remaining $40 billion is being spent as cost effectively as possible?”[19] With public support and backing from Mike Dunmire, Eyman gathered enough funds to pay paid-signature gatherers to obtain enough signatures to ensure Initiative 900 a spot on the 2005 general election ballot in Washington. Critics of Eyman contended that Initiative 900 was a poorly drafted, flawed measure that did not do anything to help the government. However, because many critics saw it as ineffective and not very harmful, it attracted little opposition. The public approved the measure in November of 2005.[20] 2006
Eyman did not qualify any initiatives for the 2006 Washington ballot, but he did work on three initiatives which did not make the ballot:
2007For the November 2007 ballot, Eyman and his group supported the Washington Taxpayer Protection Initiative, I-960, which was approved with 816,792 votes in favor and 777,125 against. I-960 required a two-thirds legislative approval or voter approval for tax increases, legislative approval of fee increases, the publication of information on tax-increasing bills and advisory votes on taxes enacted without voter approval. I-960 was wildly unpopular with Washington's political establishment. The measure was later overturned.[23] 2008For the November 2008 ballot in Washington, Eyman supported the Washington Reduce Traffic Congestion Initiative, I-985, which was defeated. 60.13 percent of voters voted against it.[24] While Eyman's initiative was unsuccessful, Washington's KOMO-TV described 2008 as a successful year for Eyman in the larger political arena. That year, the Washington State Legislature unsuccessfully attempted to pass Washington House Bill 2601 with its new restrictions on the initiative process.[25][26] HB 2601 was widely viewed as a legislative attempt to make it harder for Eyman to put ballot measures before the state's voters. 2009I-1033 was on the November 3, 2009 ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the People, where it was defeated. The measure aimed to limit growth of certain state, county, and city revenue to annual inflation and population growth, not including voter-approved revenue increases, and any revenues collective above the limit would be used to reduce property tax levies.[27] 2010
2011Statewide measure I-1125 called for the prohibition of gas tax and toll revenues to be diverted to non-transportation purposes. Additionally, it required that lawmakers approve toll rates. It was defeated.[30] 2012I-1185 was on the November 6, 2012 statewide ballot in Washington as an Initiative from the People, where it was approved but later overturned. According to reports, this measure was similar to Initiative 1053, which was under legal challenge.[31] On May 30, 2012 King County Superior Court Judge Bruce Heller ruled that the two-thirds vote requirement for the Washington State Legislature to raise revenue under I-1053 was unconstitutional.[32] The issue was ultimately decided by the Washington State Supreme Court. 2013-2014Statewide measure I-517 would have implemented penalties for intimidating, harassing, interfering with or retaliating against petition drive efforts for a ballot initiative.[33] In addition, the measure would have required that all initiative efforts that obtained the valid amount of signatures have their proposals placed on the ballot. Also in 2013 and in 2014, Eyman filed multiple versions of initiatives related to vehicle license (car tab) fees, though none made the ballot. 2015The Washington Sales Tax Decrease or Two-Thirds Vote for Tax Increase, Initiative 1366 was on the ballot in Washington on November 3, 2015, as an Initiative to the People, where it was approved, but later overturned. The measure would have decreased the sales tax rate unless the legislature referred to voters a constitutional amendment requiring two-thirds legislative approval or voter approval to raise taxes, and legislative approval for fee increases. King County Court Judge William Downing struck the measure down on January 21, 2016. The court found that it was a disguised effort to propose a constitutional amendment, which cannot be imposed via initiative. Also in 2015, Eyman filed multiple versions of initiatives related to taxes and vehicle license (car tab) fees, though none made the ballot. 2016-2018In 2016, 2017, and 2018, Eyman filed multiple versions of initiatives related to taxes and vehicle license (car tab) fees, though none made the ballot. Also in 2018, Eyman filed referendum petitions #78 and #79, the Atlantic Salmon Net-Pen Farming Ban veto referendums. The measures sought to overturn Washington House Bill 2957, which was signed on March 22, 2018, by Washington governor Jay Inslee (D) that was designed to phase out non-native finfish aquaculture in Washington's marine waters and ban net-pen farming of non-native finfish unless the net-pen farms were under a lease of state-owned aquatic lands. HB 2957 was largely a response to the collapse of Cooke Aquaculture's Cypress Island fish farm net-pen in August 2017 that released up to 263,000 non-native Atlantic salmon into Washington waters.[34] Eyman withdrew the measures partly because Cooke Aquaculture did not support them.[35] |
Noteworthy events
Lawsuits and news surrounding Initiative 976
Tim Eyman sponsored Initiative 976 on the 2019 ballot. The measure was approved by voters and set to take effect on December 5, 2019, but is on hold pending the resolution of legal challenges. More information on the case can be found here.
Tim Eyman filed a lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court against the state of Washington requesting a ruling on the constitutionality of I-976. The court dismissed the case on January 31, 2020. Superior Court Judge Chris Lanese said, "There is no basis under the law for me to retain this case and decide this."[36]
On February 4, 2020, in an email, Eyman wrote, "I am calling for civil disobedience. Join me and REFUSE to renew your vehicle tabs if your bill includes taxes and fees that were specifically targeted by I-976. It is absolutely critical that the people of Washington state, regardless of how they voted, not pay taxes and fees that the voters voted to get rid of."[37][38]
Public Disclosure Commission investigation, 2015
In 2015, the Washington Public Disclosure Commission began investigating Eyman, his organization Watchdog for Taxpayers, and the signature collection company Citizen Solutions. The investigation centered on Eyman's use of campaign funds for multiple 2012 ballot initiatives. According to the Seattle Times, Eyman was accused of taking money donated for I-1185 and using it to pay for activities related to I-517 as well as to pay for personal expenses.[39] In March 2017, as a result of the investigation, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued Eyman, Watchdog for Taxpayers, and Citizen Solutions, accusing them of violating campaign finance laws.[40]
State of Washington v. Eyman campaign finance lawsuit, 2017
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) sued Eyman for $2.1 million, alleging that Eyman profited from money donated to his initiative campaigns and violated campaign finance laws.[41] Ferguson wrote, "We note Mr. Eyman claims he has received more than $20,000 per month in gifts. We look forward to presenting our case to the court that these gifts are really political contributions, solicited for a political purpose, that should have been reported to the public."[42]
On November 28, 2018, Eyman filed under Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington.
On his website, Eyman wrote, "For 6 long years, I’ve been slammed with the most intense, soul-crushing government litigation against a private individual in state history. While the AG has had unlimited resources to assign teams of taxpayer-financed lawyers to bury me and my attorneys in an endless maze of motions and procedures, my legal costs have had to be funded privately (from my family’s limited resources and from financial support from folks like you). I was doing the best I could to keep up."[42] Eyman's attorney responded to the lawsuit saying, "For all the heated rhetoric earlier today, this dispute is simple: whether two transactions from 5 years ago needed to be included on 2012’s campaign reports. The Attorney General believes they should, we do not. From the beginning, Mr. Eyman has made clear he did nothing wrong … It is chilling that the stated purpose of this action is to permanently bar him from participating in the political process in this State."[43]
On September 30, 2019, Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon ruled against Citizen Solutions and William Agazarm, the company's principal. Dixon ordered Citizen Solutions and Agazarm to collectively pay $1.04 million in civil penalties and contempt sanctions, including $622,255 in attorneys' fees and court costs. A civil trial regarding the lawsuit against Eyman was set for July 2020.[44]
On February 10, 2021, Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon ordered Eyman to pay $2.6 million in penalties (the highest campaign finance penalty imposed on an individual in the state's history) and prohibited Eyman from handling finances for political committees. Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) said, "After twenty years of violating campaign finance laws, including two previous judgments against him, Eyman’s day of reckoning has arrived. Eyman’s conduct was illegal and intentional. Today’s historic campaign finance penalty – the largest in our state ever levied against an individual — is necessary to hold him accountable for some of the most egregious campaign finance violations ever uncovered by the Washington Public Disclosure Commission and the Washington State Attorney General’s Office." Eyman and his attorney, former state Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders said they were considering an appeal. Eyman said, "I’m going to have to be in a consulting role instead of a decision-making role, and do everything I can to walk through the minefield that’s been laid out."[45]
On April 16, 2021, Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon ordered Eyman to pay an additional $2.9 million to reimburse the state for Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson's court costs in the lawsuit.[46]
See also
2020 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ OPB, "Tim Eyman Promises 'Aggressive' Run For Governor, Changes From Independent To GOP Bid," February 13, 2020
- ↑ The Spokesman-Review, "Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan named in Tim Eyman campaign disclosure lawsuit," September 29, 2016
- ↑ Crosscut, "Who is Tim Eyman and why do so many people hate him?" accessed December 2, 2019
- ↑ Tim Eyman on Facebook, Facebook status from January 3, 2019, at 6:32pm ET, accessed January 3, 2019
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Election Search Results," accessed July 7, 2015
- ↑ Seattle Times, "Activists push to re-legalize affirmative action in Washington state," accessed November 27, 2018
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Election Search Results," accessed July 7, 2015
- ↑ Washington Supreme Court, "Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 v. State of Washington," accessed July 7, 2015
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Election Search Results," accessed July 7, 2015
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Election Search Results," accessed July 7, 2015
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Past Election Results," accessed August 9, 2013
- ↑ Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Judge tosses out Eyman property tax initiative," June 13, 2006
- ↑ Supreme Court throws out Eyman property tax limit
- ↑ Municipal Research and Services Center, "2006 Pierce County v. State," accessed November 29, 2018
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, telephone communication with Tim Eyman on November 29, 2018]
- ↑ Washington Legislature, Revisers note in RCW 81.104.160, accessed November 28, 2018
- ↑ ‘’Voters Want More Choices’’, “About us,” accessed December 17, 2018
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Past Election Results," accessed August 9, 2013
- ↑ ‘’Voters Want More Choices’’, “About us,” accessed December 17, 2018
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Past Election Results," accessed August 8, 2013
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Official receipt given to Mr. Eyman for his I-917 petitions"," accessed April 29, 2014
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Office of Secretary of State to conduct a full signature check on Initiative 917," accessed April 29, 2014
- ↑ League of Educ. Voters v. State 87425-5 (2013)
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "November 04, 2008 General Election Results," November 4, 2008
- ↑ Komo TV, "I agree with Tim Eyman. Seriously," February 11, 2008
- ↑ Sound Politics, "Another shot at the initiative process brewing in Olympia," accessed February 13, 2008
- ↑ Office of the Secretary of State, "2009 Voters Pamphlet," accessed September 5, 2013
- ↑ Snohomish County Elections, November Election Results
- ↑ Seattle Times, "Eyman will push to restore tax barrier," January 12, 2010
- ↑ Issaquah Press, "Voters toast liquor initiative, shut down tolling measure," November 15, 2011
- ↑ The Seattle Times, "Suit targets Eyman tax initiative's two-thirds vote requirement," accessed April 17, 2012
- ↑ Tacoma News Tribune, "Eyman's Initiative 1053 Unconstitutional," accessed June 8, 2012
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "2013 initiatives to Legislature launched this week," accessed January 2, 2013
- ↑ Seattle Times, "Fish farm caused Atlantic salmon spill near San Juans, then tried to hide how bad it was, state says," accessed March 24, 2018
- ↑ Seattle Times, "Tim Eyman withdraws referendums seeking vote on Atlantic salmon net-pen ban," accessed December 17, 2018
- ↑ News Tribune, "Eyman loses another lawsuit, followers ante up for governor’s campaign," accessed February 2, 2020
- ↑ Tim 4 Gov, "I AM CALLING FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: JOIN ME IN REFUSING TO RENEW YOUR VEHICLE TABS," accessed February 4, 2020
- ↑ Tim 4 Gov, "VICTORY IN COURT TODAY: AG Bob Ferguson exposed (again) as saboteur of I-976. Here’s my report on today’s hearing in Thurston County Superior Court," accessed February 4, 2020
- ↑ The Seattle Times, "AG sues Tim Eyman for $2M, says he profited from campaigns," March 31, 2017
- ↑ Attorney General of Washington, "State of Washington v. Tim Eyman," March 31, 2017
- ↑ State of Washington vs. Tim Eyman," accessed December 17, 2018
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 The Seattle Times, "Tax protester Tim Eyman files for bankruptcy as legal troubles persist," accessed December 17, 2018
- ↑ Tim Defense, "Home," accessed December 17, 2018
- ↑ Herald Net, "Eyman cohorts fined $1M in campaign finance case," accessed October 2, 2019
- ↑ AP News, "Eyman fined $2.6 million, barred from campaign control," accessed February 10, 2021
- ↑ Q 13 Fox, "Tim Eyman ordered to pay $2.9 million to reimburse taxpayers, attorney general says," accessed April 19, 2021
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