Initiative 976: A car tab decision and a referendum on Tim Eyman
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Tim Eyman has enjoyed a 20-year shelf life in Washington state politics, but with Initiative 976 -- his statewide $30 car tab measure -- there is a "must sell" label.
Eyman is beleaguered: Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a seven-figure civil suit accusing the initiative promoter of taking $308,285 in kickbacks from a signatures-for-hire firm, Citizen Solutions, and secretly moving money from one proposed initiative to another. Contempt citations have piled up at the AG has sought details of Eyman's financial dealings.
He is, however, back on the ballot and back to the car tabs issue that began it all in 1999. I-976 would blow a hole in transportation budgets, costing state government and 60 local communities more than $4 billion in revenue over the next six years, according to the state Office of Financial Management.
Eyman is Trump-like in his love of limelight, and never one to engage in contrition. He refers to Ferguson as "Fascist Fergie." In an email to his "thousands of supporters" on Monday, Ferguson said of the Governor: "It's no surprise that the stratospheric level of public support for I-976 has made Jay Inslee's brain explode." Eyman has predicted passage of I-976 with 65% of the vote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/initiative-976-a-car-tab-decision-and-a-referendum-on-tim-eyman/ar-AAJQVVm
In addition Timmy received a $700,000 gift from Kemper Freeman and took $500,000 from his wife's 401K. They're now divorced.
Oh and let's not forget the chair.
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