News Aug 29, 2012 at 4:00 am

Is One Tim Eyman Campaign Secretly Funding Another?

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1
Wouldn't be the first time Timmeh was caught breaking the rules.
2
Great piece Goldy!

How long do you think it will take for the Seattle Times to pick up this story? It's really amazing the stories you can break when you actually practice investigative journalism.
3
...so can we FINALLY oust this pig?
4
I'm not convinced it will change supporter opinions. I knew someone who donated to Eyman a bit before the using campaign funds for personal use scandal broke. I expected her to have had a change of heart about Eyman when I asked her about it, she told me she didn't mind at all because Eyman keeping his personal business going with the funds meant he would have more time and ability to make important initiatives. I imagine lots of supporters would say similar things since his pet project initiative would make it easier for him to run future campaigns. People can rationalize anything.
5
The obvious line of defense is right in your article. Managers lower down in the nested businesses made the call to split the money they received to pay their gatherers something for the 517 signatures. Eyman will claim that he had nothing to do with that decision and insist that the PDC fine the principals of the company that made the decision.

At which point, the officers of that company will either take it for Eyman and go bankrupt (unless they've got deep pockets), or they will release whatever documentation they have to try to bring Eyman down with them.

It will be fun to watch.
6
"he could wind up in an untenable spot, with pissed-off big-money backers, no grassroots supports, no credibility, no one left to finance his initiatives, and—as a result—no more Tim Eyman."

And if wishes were horses, we'd all be fucking Kelly Madison every few hours.*

Your premise sounds like Phoebe-in-Wallingford-caliber tone-trolling. Some of Slimeman's donors may be miffed, but since he's using their money to make it easier to keep doing what they paid him to do, and the general political bent of all his actions is consistently right-wing, it's pretty hard to believe most of them will feel so betrayed that they'll never do business with him again, or that new contributors will never trust him to do their dirty work. IOW, get a quote from a butt-hurt donor to support this angle.

*Well, some of us, anyway.
7
Can he be barred from creating initiatives because of this?
8
I don't know who Kelly Madison is, but otherwise I agree with @6. The right wing won't care about splitting funds to support a second right-wing cause.
10
Well all you critics can still pay $400-800 car
tabs...........Just what I thought a bunch of hypocrites. How's your democratic's leadership
insourcing jobs to
illegal immigrants helping US citizens and
veterans finding jobs ?????

Listen for the SILENCE
12
Unfreaking believable. This is what we get with Repuke-blican Secretary of State. It's like the fox guarding the hen house. I don't care if these right-wingers run their initiatives legitimately. Whatever. That's their right. But these law-breaking Koch Brother types and minions have been getting with this shit for way too long.
13
Eyman has long been one of the major driving forces behind ruining the initiative process, and in turn, one of the last bastions of true democratic power for the people, in Washington state. What a fucking asshole.
14
Citizens-initiated amendments to Washington's cuntsitution are illegal;Eymanazi should take his Feudalistic show to California,Oregon,or some other state that allows such things(or he should run for a state-wide office).Go to our state's ballotpedia page and NOTICE THE RED DOT;THAT'S what Eymanazi is attempting to circumvent as a non-member of the Whoregislature!!!

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