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News & ArtsThursday, June 7, 2012
Olympia Our Long Unconstitutional Nightmare May Almost Be Over
Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:00 AM
- Kelly O
- State representative Jamie Pedersen is one of the plaintiffs trying to dismantle Tim Eyman's unconstitional initiative.
In this week's Stranger, Goldy and I look at where the lawsuit against Tim Eyman's budget-breaking Initiative 1053 goes from here.
Because, based on the ruling of King County Superior Court Judge Bruce Heller, we can now say that...
For two years in the midst of a deep recession, the citizens of Washington State—and our representatives in Olympia—have been living under an unconstitutional restraint on our legislature's power to collect revenue.
The question is: What happens next?
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