Initiative whore Tim Eyman has so little respect for the government that he routinely refuses to comply with even the most basic campaign disclosure requirements. Back in 2004 I joined a complaint alleging Eyman routinely violated state law by filing late and misleading disclosure reports; Tim eventually agreed to a small fine, and was warned never to let happen again.
Well… he’s let it happen again, this time filing no contribution or expenditure reports for his latest for-profit initiative. Steve Zemke has filed a fresh PDC complaint, and dollars to donuts this costs Tim some money.
Goldy: You, more than anyone, should know that laws don’t apply to republicans. Tim Eyeman is in the business of making money off initiatives to benefit his fat cat sponsors. He shouldn’t have to follow the law – he is WRITING the laws.
Wasn’t it a republican who said – “there you go again”?
Mike, can you pick this one up?
Duncemire: No prob Timmeh. Mys pockets are bulgin’!
Are there no WSRP operatives around that know how to file PDC reports? I mean, these guys are hanging around in every (Democratic) campaign organization I’ve ever seen. Is Tim Eyman too stupid to just hire one to do the filings when he heads up one of these initiative campaigns? Yeah, I know, ‘stupid’ gives him the benefit of the doubt. I think ‘venal’ may be the word I’m searching for….
Like all republicans – Tim Lieman thinks he should be above the law.
The PDC is afraid of him. Don’t expect much more than a wrist slap.
I saw people circulating the I-985 petitions (Eyman’s initiative on traffic matters) at the Barack Obama rally, outside the Key Arena. Most people appeared to be signing the petitions, although I saw a few they weren’t. When the petition circulator got close to where I was standing (I was one of the overflow folks that were outside), I asked if it was Tim Eyman’s initiative. The petition circulator was about two people away from me at that point, and the person he was directly soliciting decided not to sign after she heard me ask the question. So the petition circulator reversed direction, and decided to find prospective signers in a different location.
Yup – the Eyeman petitoners don’t want people to know that the crook Eyeman is behind the initiative. Good catch Richard.
that would be – petitioners
Ayeman? Laws? We don’t need no stinking laws!
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN I-MAN AND YOU GOLDY. HE HAS A JOB.WHAT TIME IS YOUR SHOW ON AGAIN? JUST ASKIN
correctnotright @ 8&9
Actually, they are paid to get signatures for Eyman’s initiatives. The petition circulators don’t give a damn one way or the other about the initiative they are getting signatures for. They simply want to maximize their earnings. An Obama rally draws a lot of people, and is a great place for them to make money. They probably get a noticeably smaller percentage of people willing to sign, but what they lose in percentages, they make up in volume.
@11
Dude, you should have paid more attention in English class.
Could we all pass the hat and maybe create a relocation fund for 3rd Eyeman? Send him to Arkansas, Tennessee or Alabama to dwell amongst like-minded intellectual giants. Just make it stop.
13
I always take interest in the way people here make fun of folks from the Southern states. If you cocksuckers hate the South and its people so much, why did your ancestors go to war to keep them in the union? WouldN’t it have been better to let the Southerners go their own way, since all of you are such wonderful fucking assholes and supremely better than anyone else? Why do you need the South?
As far as Eyman is conerned, he’s doing a job that needs doing: being a pain in the ass to this state’s socialist assholes in Olympia. Fuck them and the horses they rode in on!!
Confederate flags are great! We should fly one over the capitol building!!
Fuck all of you cocksucking assholes!!!
HAR, HAR, HAR, HAR, HAR HAR, HAR, HAR, HAR, HAR!
Politically Incorrect @ 14
Are you intentionally writing self-parody? Or are you just fucking nut?
yo, #14
I’m with you on this, but for an entirely different reason (more than one, actually).
Firstest… The rule of Murphy says:
“As soon as you inflict a [sic] on someone you are going to ‘typo’ somewhere, and at the worst possible moment.”
Secondest…
Allegedly we are all adult-enough to ASK if we don’t understand what someone said. If no one asks, then everyone got it: Message delivered.
Lastest…
I don’t care how people spell or talk if they can be understood. If they are truly incomprehensible, then I can always just smile and nod knowingly. ;-)
@14: You ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow…Don’t you know it’s gonna be alright?
confederate flags….in Washington state. Hmm…I think we are just a tad above the mason-dixon line here. The racist stuff just won’t cut it here.
Lucky Puddy didn’t see that post…..
14: “If you cocksuckers hate the South and its people so much, why did your ancestors go to war to keep them in the union? WouldN’t it have been better to let the Southerners go their own way, since all of you are such wonderful fucking assholes and supremely better than anyone else? Why do you need the South?”
Good questions, though not for the right reasons. I have asked the same questions for years. The South has controlled American politics with a vengeance for much of the post-Civil War period. We would be a better country without politicians’ perceived need to appease the ever-whining southern element. In my humble opinion, Alabama can go fuck itself. On the other hand, if the CSA had remained an independent nation, the apartheid would probably still be going on. The remedy is to try to ignore Southern ideology until Latino immigration turns the South into a more American region.
P.I. you make a point or two. Hard to get past the attitude to find them. You do them no favors.
Can’t say I’ve seen much hostility at the south in almost 30 years here. Disrespect sure, a little shown above. Still, there is a sizable southern population up here. I’ve never meet one defensive about being from there. A few caustic coments from them about home, but no rejection of the culture. If you can’t connect with southern culture up here, you’re not trying.
We needed to keep the south to save it, and thereby save ourselves.The short version,doubt if there’s availible space here to give a good long version.
Seemlingly it was a culture dominated by angry old ladies, of any sex.
“I always take interest in the way people here make fun of folks from the Southern states.”
I’ll bet that’s not all you ‘take’. You seem to have a clinical fondness for the term ‘cocksucker’. Of course, what goes on down south, stays down south, eh Bubba?
correctnotright says:
Goldy: You, more than anyone, should know that laws don’t apply to republicans. Tim Eyeman is in the business of making money off initiatives to benefit his fat cat sponsors. He shouldn’t have to follow the law – he is WRITING the laws.
Correct-not-right you must be one of those rich pompous fools who never pay taxes but expects the middle class to foot your bills. Now you can put any initiatives up for vote no matter who you are including politicians who not willing to their job the taxpayers sent them to Olympic to do their bidding. Now he isn’t much different than your prize Socialist Democrats trying to pick everyone’s pockets. Yes he does write laws and so does your friends when they get a mind to do their job, which is seldom. The main difference is that you and your friend Goldy really don’t like folks voting on things they really understand. Yes the Judge said that initiatives have to be written on one subject and a first grader in the Seattle school district can understand. Unfortunately the law makers don’t read at the first grade level nor understand what is being said at that level today. Now following the laws today, that’s a joke when the far left never follows the laws today unless it serves its best interest. You might jump of the bridge maybe someone will care then about your opinion. Sweet dreams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You boys from the Deliverance cast might just want to check into the budget disaster your masters have heaped on the American taxpayer during the Reagan, Bush I, and the Bush II tenures before you sling around platitudes like “socialist democrats trying to pick everyone’s pockets”. Facts or reality though, will never ruin nor cloud your laughable, barroom-folkloric fairy tales, no doubt. What we need for you traitors is a good French revolution style guillotine orgy on the steps of the Capitol building. Vive’ le America!
Politically incorrect:
“I always take interest in the way people here make fun of folks from the Southern states. If you cocksuckers hate the South and its people so much, why did your ancestors go to war to keep them in the union? WouldN’t it have been better to let the Southerners go their own way, since all of you are such wonderful fucking assholes and supremely better than anyone else? Why do you need the South?”
Nobody NEEDS the south, but denizens thereof DO have entertainment value, as you’ve just demonstrated. Where else can we get inbred dolts throwing hissy fits to laugh at?
So exactly what is this prejudice against the South? Do we get rid of Jimmy Carter, Jim Webb, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton on account of this?
Interestingly, Democratic turnout has been substantially higher than Republican turnout in almost all of the Southern primaries so far. It was almost double Republican turnout in Virginia, more than double in Louisiana, and also topped GOP turnout in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. GOP turnout had a slight edge only in Florida (where the Democratic primary wasn’t supposed to count anyway), and in Alabama (which has voted heavily Republican in recent years).
RP @ 24
I am very fond of some things that come out of the south. I love country and bluegrass music. Barbecue and Cajun food always hit the spot. Certainly, the south has produced some great writers–Faulkner is one of my favorites. What I hate about the south is the enduring allegiance to the Confederate flag, the persistent refusal to truly integrate with the rest of the nation. Many southerners act like the War continues. The most isolated I have ever felt in my own nation is speaking with my northwest accent in Jackson, Mississippi and everyone in the store turning to look at me. Downtown Detroit suits me better. The south lost the War. On the other hand, the south has the upper hand in American politics. Look at the last 3 Democratic presidents–Clinton, Carter, Johnson (we could include Gore, but won’t for present purposes). See a trend here? To be elected president, Democrats have catered to the south. It is high time to stop. The south votes in a bloc. As long as that continues, the south deserves disrespect. The northwest shares certain cultural and lifestyle commonalities, from Montana to Alaska to Oregon. But, we do not vote as a bloc. Why do the southern states? Because they’ve never gotten over losing the Civil War.
The south has had its day running things. The Bush Bros, Jeb and Dumbya are more Southern in temperament and style than people give them credit for.
Quite a few books have been written on how we can take back the country from the South. It looks like it’s going to happen.
But the North has to maintain some sort of co-existence. Much of the military hails from the South and there’s a clear and present danger of an apocalyptic form of Christianist ideology dominating the Pentagon.
Mikey Weinstein is going to be in Seattle on Feb 16th talking about the “Pentacostalgon” at Townhall.
Check him out.
http://townhallseattle.org/calendar.cfm
Hillary Clinton on account of this?
Pope – Hillary is not a Southerner. From Illinois if I remember correctly.
Goldy, I dont see you getting on Gregoire about missing filing dates. She cost us taxpayers what 40 million but said she would be personally responsible. That means
to write a check in my book. Hillary does the same thing
Eyman did only on a much larger and illegal way. Correctnotright you are a moron.FuckinA
@25 downtown detroit eh? thats funny. i grew up in detroit, i’d say stick to seattle.
Well, I grew up in Tennessee, but I’ve lived in the Seattle area for the better part of 30 years now. I also got some pretty strange looks up here when I spoke with a Southern accent, so I dropped the “ya’ll”. It’s a shame, though – only in the South were they smart enough to see that the English language really needed a 2nd person plural, and invent it. “You guys”, when applied to both men and women, lacks both ellegance and accuracy.
As for Southern politics – perhaps you should check out one of the maps from after the 2004 election, which broke down the vote by county (rather than by state). What you see then is that the “solid South” isn’t so solid – the urban areas are all blue, and the rural areas are red, with the suburbs shades in between. Then if you look at the rest of the country, you find that it pretty much holds true wherever you go in the country. So the politics isn’t so much a Southern vs. Northern, or a “red state vs blue state” function. It tends to relate to urban vs. rural, with the suburbs being the battle grounds.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/.....edblue.png
Hey, I just showed that map (2004 election results by county), to one of my co-workers, who is from Japan. She speaks English pretty well, and is learning about American politics, but sometimes she struggles to find the correct word to use.
Her comment when she saw the map: “So, if you are civilized, you are a Democrat!”
I’m still laughing – sometimes it takes a person with the perspective of an outsider to hit the nail right on the head, in so many ways….