I honestly believe that the head tax was so unpopular, the number of signatures gathered would not have been significantly lower without paid political ads in whatever form that took. All the local TV stations plus the ST did enough advertising for it and people simply used common sense and decided it was a bad idea.

How come Cary Moon's political ad buy discrepancies don't get mentioned in this series of articles?

Thanks, Eli. I enjoyed this article and think it’s an interesting outcome of your reporting.

Shady Saul Spady, Seattle's own Tim Eyman.

@4 -- don't call Saul?

Thanks for the follow up. Glad to hear how the mystery ended.

It will be interesting to see what future involvement Sandy has on Seattle politics.

Poor Sloggers, still can't accept the fact that their "jobs tax for bums" would have been absolutely crushed at the polls.

40,000 signatures in two weeks gathered.

@9: They’d rather obsess over the minutiae of sub-sub-vendors’ spending (or not) tiny sums than ask why the candidates and causes they pick get rejected by actual voters in real elections.