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2001 PRESS RELEASES/ADVISORIES
Bob Williams to speak to hundreds of state legislators
December 13, 2001
Bob Williams, president of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, will be sharing his budget expertise with hundreds of state legislators from around the nation tomorrow at a policy conference hosted by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in Washington, D.C. ALEC, with more than 2,400 members, is the nation's largest bipartisan, free market, individual membership association of state legislators...
A public works project or a congestion relief package?
December 12, 2001
When a member of his own party, who also happens to be the Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, warns, "I don’t think this is going to pass," one starts to wonder why Governor Locke continues to turn a deaf ear to the voice of the people. Rep. Ruth Fisher, D-Tacoma, may agree with the governor’s ideas, but at least her political antenna is pointed in the right direction...
Judge orders WEA to repay teachers over $180,000
November 15, 2001
OLYMPIA - Thursday, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor clarified a ruling granting a state-sought injunction against the Washington Education Association (WEA) to end the union’s practice of using funds from non-members for election expenditures. The injunction requires WEA officials to refund $47 to approximately 4,000 teachers who pay fees to the union...
Democrats acknowledge benefits of tax cuts
November 5, 2001
We would like to welcome the state’s Democrats in their budding conversion to the tried-and-true principles of the free market. With the country and state experiencing a recession, Senator Patty Murray has co-sponsored a bill that would grant a ten-day "tax holiday" at the start of the Christmas shopping season to encourage consumer spending and bolster the economy.....
Lower tax burden? Depends on you definition
October 29, 2001
Much has been made of the state Department of Revenue’s release late last week of 1999 Census data pointing to a decrease in Washington’s overall local and state tax burden. We can’t help but question the motives behind releasing this report two weeks before the election when the Department has had the numbers since September....
Employer fined for union politics
October 25, 2001
In a settlement reached with the Attorney General Tuesday, King County officials agreed to a $20,000 fine and other remedies for failing to protect workers from an illegal special political assessment requested by the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)....
EFF- WEA is a political action committee
October 16, 2001
In a case heard before the Washington Court of Appeals this afternoon, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) argued that the Washington Education Association (WEA) should be declared a political action committee and required to report as one due to its extensive involvement in Washington elections....
WEA attacks teacher class action suit
August 23, 2001
This Friday, August 24th, the Washington Education Association (WEA) will ask a Thurston County Superior Court Judge to dismiss a class action lawsuit teachers brought against the union last March...
WEA: A reed blowing in the wind
August 16, 2001
Washington Education Association officials sure change their minds a lot. The teachers’ union was hit with a $400,000 fine July 31st for breaking this state law..
Ends justify means for WEA officials
August 8, 2001
Last week the Washington Education Association was hit with yet another campaign finance penalty, this time a $400,000 fine for once again abusing its power and running roughshod over the law and teachers’ free speech rights...
WEA is found guilty...again
July 31, 2001
Olympia - Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor today issued a “guilty” verdict against the Washington Education Association (WEA) for what he characterized as intentional violations in the union’s use of mandatory teacher dues and fees for politics...
State fines Transit Union $10,000
July 25, 2001
On Tuesday, July 24, the state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) accepted a stipulation from the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 agreeing to pay a fine of $10,000 for multiple violations of campaign finance disclosure laws...
AP report: Unions control Democrat Party
July 20, 2001
An Associated Press story printed nationwide today confirms what the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) has asserted for some time: labor unions, including the National Education Association (NEA), not only support the Democratic Party but actually help run it...
EFF applauds New Mexico's decision to settle Microsoft Suit
July 12, 2001
New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid announced today that she has reached a settlement to end her state’s lawsuit against Microsoft...
Washington Cost of Government Day: July 9
July 6, 2001
Today is National Cost of Government Day, but Washington state citizens won’t be out from under government bills until Monday, July 9th. Washington’s Cost of Government Day comes later than that of 45 other states...
Washingtonians Win, Microsoft won't be split
June 28, 2001
Today a federal appeals court overturned a district court judge’s earlier decision to penalize the Microsoft corporation by splitting it into two companies...
Locke: "Hold us accountable" . . . if you can
June 27, 2001
Governor Locke signed the legislature’s two-year, $22.8 billion budget on Tuesday, June 26th, but vetoed all attempts to hold state government accountable for efficient spending of taxpayer money...
AG calls for $600,000 fine against WEA
May 18, 2001
OLYMPIA — In closing trial arguments today, the Attorney General’s office called for the tripling of a suggested $200,000 fine against the Washington Education Association for intentional violations of state law...
WEA tries to silence EFF
May 14, 2001
OLYMPIA – Opening arguments were heard this morning in the trial against the Washington Education Association for admitted violations of a state law protecting teachers’ free speech rights...
May 10th: Washington tax freedom day
May 9, 2001
Washingtonians have worked more than one-third of the year (130 days) to pay their federal, state and local taxes, but they can finally start taking their money home after the work day ends tomorrow, states a report by the D.C.-based Tax Foundation...
Judge rejects WEA's latest evasion attempt
May 4, 2001
Today, on the eve of the Attorney General’s trial against the Washington Education Association on charges of illegally spending teachers’ fees for politics, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor rejected the union’s arguments that the law governing agency fees* is unconstitutional...
Governor Locke's transportation plan: raise taxes now, find savings later
May 2, 2001
Today, Governor Gary Locke announced a transportation revenue package that calls for increasing the gas tax by 7 cents, adding a 2% sales tax to new and used automobiles, and a 50% increase in weight fees on commercial vehicles...
Seattle teacher strikes prohibited by union contract
April 30, 2001
WEA officials who have organized a one-day work stoppage in the Seattle school district are prohibited from doing so by the contract they signed themselves...
Public employee strikes: harmful and illegal
April 19, 2001
Starting yesterday, the Washington Federation of State Employees started its members on rolling walkouts to protest what they feel is too small a raise...
WEA fails to report political spending to IRS
April 13, 2001
An IRS complaint filed today by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation (EFF) reveals that during the last several years the Washington Education Association (WEA) has failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxable political expenditures and contributions...
Tax freedom day is May 10th
April 13, 2001
Washingtonians won’t finish paying Uncle Sam and his state and local counterparts until May 10th this year, according to a report released today by the D.C.-based Tax Foundation...
Judge won't allow WEA to recant
March 23, 2001
A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled this morning that the Washington Education Association (WEA) is bound by the confession it made last September when union officials admitted to breaking the law by spending nonmember fees on politics...
EFF files class action lawsuit against WEA
March 16, 2001
Today a group of Washington teachers filed a class action lawsuit in Thurston County Superior Court against the Washington Education Association (WEA) to recover fees owed to them by the union...
WEA officials recant guilty plea
March 8, 2001
Attorneys for the Washington Education Association (WEA) will argue a WEA motion in court tomorrow asking permission to recant a guilty plea that led Attorney General Christine Gregoire to file her second lawsuit against the teachers’ union for campaign finance violations...
How will tax cuts affect you?
March 6, 2001
With the federal government collecting more money from citizens than it needs, President George W. Bush and members of Congress have opened what promises to be a contentious debate over tax cuts...
Pasco teachers pay highest union dues in the state
March 2, 2001
Are Pasco teachers really getting their money’s worth for their union dues? The Evergreen Freedom Foundation believes they may not be...
Faculty members protest contract
January 30, 2001
Instructors at the Columbia Basin College (CBC) are protesting a pending contract that would require all faculty hired after Winter Quarter 2000 to join the Washington Education Association (WEA), or pay fees equivalent to the required representation dues...
Hundreds of citizens
appeal to Attorney General
January 11, 2001
The Evergreen Freedom Foundation yesterday delivered nearly 1,000 signed
cards and notes from citizens around the state asking Attorney General Christine
Gregoire to fully investigate and penalize the Washington Education Association
for its recent campaign finance violations...
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