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1. Initiative maven Tim Eyman will represent himself in a lawsuit (read the final motion here) accusing the state Office of Financial Management of misstating the cost of I-1185, his initiative requiring a two-thirds majority of the state legislature to raise taxes.
OFM has estimated that 1185 will cost between $22.8 million and $33.1 million in lost revenues through 2017; Eyman says it will cost the state nothing.
Eyman, who will make his case before King County Superior Court Judge James Dixon sometime on the morning of Friday, August 24, (jokingly) explained his legal strategy to state senior council Steve Dietrich this way: "I'm gonna get [OFM director] Marty Brown on the stand and under intense questioning, he'll break down crying and admit that the impact statement was wrong."
2. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee is on a roll. Two weeks ago he jumped ahead in the polls. Last week, he won the primary. And yesterday, after Inslee bawled out the aerospace industry group, the Aerospace Futures Alliance, for endorsing his GOP rival Rob McKenna, the AFA, which represents Boeing, Everett Community College, and other local stakeholders in the aerospace industry, co-endorsed Inslee.
Inslee—along with the whole Democratic delegation in DC— has taken credit for helping steer the $35 billion fueling tanker contract Boeing's way.
Meanwhile, McKenna is looking more and more like Charlie Brown.
From the Everett Herald:
3. And in more bad news for Republican candidates, GOP attorney general hopeful Reagan Dunn is bombing in King County (he's on the King County council). He's got just 33 percent of the vote.
Statewide, Dunn's Democratic opponent, King County Council member Bob Ferguson is ahead 51 to 38, winning 22 counties, including Snohomish, Pierce, Skagit, and Whatcom.
4. And in more more bad news for Republicans, Democratic hit man, Kelly Steele, of Sen. Harry Reid campaign fame, is back in town. Steele, who worked on Gov. Chris Gregoire's convincing reelection in 2008 and US Sen. Maria Cantwell's (blowout) reelection in 2006, is working for Cantwell again.
Cantwell won the primary handily over Republican Michael Baumgartner 55.6 to 30.1.
Photo by Lucas Anderson
1. Initiative maven Tim Eyman will represent himself in a lawsuit (read the final motion here) accusing the state Office of Financial Management of misstating the cost of I-1185, his initiative requiring a two-thirds majority of the state legislature to raise taxes.
OFM has estimated that 1185 will cost between $22.8 million and $33.1 million in lost revenues through 2017; Eyman says it will cost the state nothing.
Eyman, who will make his case before King County Superior Court Judge James Dixon sometime on the morning of Friday, August 24, (jokingly) explained his legal strategy to state senior council Steve Dietrich this way: "I'm gonna get [OFM director] Marty Brown on the stand and under intense questioning, he'll break down crying and admit that the impact statement was wrong."
2. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Inslee is on a roll. Two weeks ago he jumped ahead in the polls. Last week, he won the primary. And yesterday, after Inslee bawled out the aerospace industry group, the Aerospace Futures Alliance, for endorsing his GOP rival Rob McKenna, the AFA, which represents Boeing, Everett Community College, and other local stakeholders in the aerospace industry, co-endorsed Inslee.
Inslee—along with the whole Democratic delegation in DC— has taken credit for helping steer the $35 billion fueling tanker contract Boeing's way.
Meanwhile, McKenna is looking more and more like Charlie Brown.
From the Everett Herald:
Herald political writer Jerry Cornfield asked McKenna whether AFA's decision to back both candidates made the original endorsement of him alone less significant.
McKenna's answer: Yes.
3. And in more bad news for Republican candidates, GOP attorney general hopeful Reagan Dunn is bombing in King County (he's on the King County council). He's got just 33 percent of the vote.
Statewide, Dunn's Democratic opponent, King County Council member Bob Ferguson is ahead 51 to 38, winning 22 counties, including Snohomish, Pierce, Skagit, and Whatcom.
4. And in more more bad news for Republicans, Democratic hit man, Kelly Steele, of Sen. Harry Reid campaign fame, is back in town. Steele, who worked on Gov. Chris Gregoire's convincing reelection in 2008 and US Sen. Maria Cantwell's (blowout) reelection in 2006, is working for Cantwell again.
Cantwell won the primary handily over Republican Michael Baumgartner 55.6 to 30.1.
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