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1. Initiative hawker Tim Eyman will file a brief today arguing against the state Office of Financial Management's fiscal impact statement for his Initiative 1185, which would re-affirm state law requiring a two-thirds vote of the state legislature for any tax increase.
According to OFM , 1185 will cost the state between $22.8 million and $33.1 million in lost revenues through 2017.
In his brief challenging the state's cost estimate, Eyman says 1185 would have no fiscal impact on the state because it would merely uphold Initiative 1053, which is under constitutional challenge at the state supreme court.
He also charges that OFM's fiscal impact statement "fails to comply with relevant statutory provisions" by misleading voters about the impact of 1185's fee-increase language, which Eyman says would make no change to existing state law.
"Our position is straightforward: I-1185 maintains current law and so whether voters approve it or reject it will not change the law as it stands today," Eyman said in a statement.
"A significant number of voters form an opinion on an initiative based solely on the Fiscal Impact Statement contained in the voters’ pamphlet prepared by the Secretary of State," Eyman's legal brief says. "It is therefore of great importance that the Fiscal Impact Statement accurately describe the proposed initiative and its effects."
2. DREAMers, as the immigrants' rights group OneAmerica calls the 30,000 children of undocumented immigrants who are now eligible to stay and work and go to school after President Obama issued an executive order, can start applying today.
3. After years in the wilds of Federal Way, the Service Employees International Union is moving its headquarters downtown to the corner of 3rd and Columbia---a lefty counterbalance, perhaps, to the conservative Mars Hill Church up the street.
The new SEIU digs formerly housed the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
1. Initiative hawker Tim Eyman will file a brief today arguing against the state Office of Financial Management's fiscal impact statement for his Initiative 1185, which would re-affirm state law requiring a two-thirds vote of the state legislature for any tax increase.
According to OFM , 1185 will cost the state between $22.8 million and $33.1 million in lost revenues through 2017.
In his brief challenging the state's cost estimate, Eyman says 1185 would have no fiscal impact on the state because it would merely uphold Initiative 1053, which is under constitutional challenge at the state supreme court.
He also charges that OFM's fiscal impact statement "fails to comply with relevant statutory provisions" by misleading voters about the impact of 1185's fee-increase language, which Eyman says would make no change to existing state law.
"Our position is straightforward: I-1185 maintains current law and so whether voters approve it or reject it will not change the law as it stands today," Eyman said in a statement.
"A significant number of voters form an opinion on an initiative based solely on the Fiscal Impact Statement contained in the voters’ pamphlet prepared by the Secretary of State," Eyman's legal brief says. "It is therefore of great importance that the Fiscal Impact Statement accurately describe the proposed initiative and its effects."
2. DREAMers, as the immigrants' rights group OneAmerica calls the 30,000 children of undocumented immigrants who are now eligible to stay and work and go to school after President Obama issued an executive order, can start applying today.
3. After years in the wilds of Federal Way, the Service Employees International Union is moving its headquarters downtown to the corner of 3rd and Columbia---a lefty counterbalance, perhaps, to the conservative Mars Hill Church up the street.
The new SEIU digs formerly housed the Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
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