hahaha this fuckup hater eyman can get shit on the ballot but the pathetic potheads can't? give me a fucking break seattle.

The right wing in this state wants to make it an economic basket case just like California!

Timmy is a jerk, and his supporters are morons. Hopefully, both initiatives will go down in flames, as most of his do.

But the best way to get to him is to vote for the income tax. Maybe it will make him leave the state.

Yeah the only thing I signed was the pot initiative, everything else I ignored knowing the paid signature gatherers would BS their way into getting me to sign it.

"So you work for permanent offense, right?", Me
"No sir", Signature Gatherer
"Riiiiiiiiiight", Me

Now Timmy didn't have the balls to send out gathered to the gay pride parade when he was trying to put a gay marriage ban on the ballot (failed attempt), did he have people out this year at the parade?

Both of these are going to pass and we're going to be perpetually fucked. The electorate will hear "this makes taxing harder" and fall over themselves voting for it.

Well, there goes the state.

@1: who's the hater again? and why is 1068 Seattle's fault?

the question is: who funds Eyman to hire his minions? Sensible Washington needs that amount of $ for the next time.

Please, blaming money is a complete cop-out. They sucked at using the (FREE) internet and they know it. Let's see their web traffic stats, I bet they are pathetic. Nice site overall though, too bad nobody knew anything about it.

I'd say 90% of the people I know would have signed 1068, and maybe <1% of them actually did. It's not completely their fault but overall I am totally disappointed with whoever ran the 1068 gig. Complete failure to not even get the signatures in a state with millions of pro-pot folks (the vast majority of which are on that internet thing I keep hearing about) in a very small area.

I hope next year isn't a total failure and I hope someone else is in charge. Someone who isn't a pothead yuppie who doesn't know how the internet works.

You realize you can't sign petitions on the internet, right?

You know, I really wanted to sign the income tax initiative, but I didn't see any signature gatherers for it out here in Spokane. There sure were a lot of folks gathering signatures for Eyman's initiative, though. One of them hectored me at the grocery store and I told him I wouldn't sign it, "Because it'll penalize poor people, I'm poor, and I'm not stupid enough to sign that shit." The irony is the signature gatherer himself said he, too, was poor, but there was no harm in signing the petition, "Because it's just to get it on the ballot."

"Look man," I said, "I know you're paid by the signature, but that's a totally specious argument. Besides, don't you think there's something inherently cynical and foolish about gathering signatures for an initiative that's gonna fuck you up the ass with no lube?" He just responded with the same broken-record trope about getting it on the ballot so we could vote on it. It was like talking to a wall.

Sigh. We get the democracy we deserve, I guess. Besides, I saw his eyes glaze over as soon as I said "specious."

Big surprise that Eyman was able to gather enough suckers - being paid $2.50 per signature motivated his harvesters to do their best. Ain't checkbook democracy grand?

Where can I see the signatures for the eyman initiatives? I think someone screwed me over and switched when I tried to sign for the pot one.

Why are our elections held at the mercy of this douche? I think it's time to eighty-six the initiative process in Washington. Time to just start taking bills to Olympia.

1107 the Soda Jerk initiative brought to you by that fucking jerkoff Timmy Eyman.

The State is fucked. Were fucked. It's almost time to look move to Vancouver B.C.

I mean low income earners are fucked not "were."

@9 yeah and you do realize you totally missed my point, grats on lack of reading comprehension. anyone who is defending any part of 1068's failure is officially part of the problem.

do it right next time.