As you’ll surely read in Monday’s paper, initiative entrepreneur Tim Eyman has collected over 230,000 signatures, more than enough to qualify I-892 (Slots for Tots) for the ballot.
That sucks.
Eyman extolls the virtues of “direct democracy” but there is nothing direct or democratic about Canadian and Nevadan gambling conglomerates spending half a million dollars to buy their way onto the WA ballot with lies.
I saw half a dozen I-892 signature gatherers this weekend, and they all used a variation on the same sales pitch: “Sign a petition to cut your property taxes.”
I-892 puts 18,255 slot machines into our neighborhoods, and if voters understand this in November, it will fail.
