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PRESS RELEASE February 10, 2004 EFF runs ads about Boeing contract in five newspapers The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is running large ads in five of the state’s daily newspapers tomorrow to let business owners know about the governor’s deal with Boeing and urge concerned citizens to call for meaningful business reform. “The legitimate reforms offered to Boeing should be extended to every business in our state. The illegitimate ones should be stripped immediately,” the ad says. “We want Boeing to stay in our state because it’s a good place to prosper, not because the company will be taxpayer-subsidized.” The ad depicts a man covering his ears, eyes and mouth, and discusses the difficulty EFF has had getting details of the Boeing contract, which the governor and other state officials claim are public. The Foundation filed a lawsuit on February 6 to obtain documents that have not yet been disclosed. The ad calls on legislators to “listen, see and speak” before they make a decision in the next few weeks on whether to fund the governor’s contract with Boeing. It also calls on citizens to contact legislators and urge them to pursue reforms for all businesses. The ad will run Wednesday in The Olympian, The Columbian (Vancouver), The News Tribune (Tacoma), and the Yakima Herald-Republic. It will run later this week in the Spokesman-Review. Click these links to see the ads for Eastern WA and Western WA. Click here to read more details about the governor’s contract with Boeing. Contact: Marsha Richards | Communications Director | 360.956.3482
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1 Part Honesty; 2 Parts Arrogance At a March 23, 2005, House Appropriations hearing on a bill to gut the voter-approved I-601 spending limit, Rep. Jim McIntire (D) asked a supporter of I-601’s two-third supermajority requirement for the legislature to raise taxes the following question: "Can you name a time when we [legislators] have actually not just set it [supermajority requirement] aside by majority vote? I mean, this is in many respects a procedural motion that has no bearing. It’s a statutory constraint that cannot constrain any legislature that chooses as a majority to set it aside . . . have we ever used a supermajority [to raise taxes]?" - Rep. Jim McIntire (D - 46) Despite the arrogance of some state officials, Washington's constitution is clear: "All political power is inherent in the people..." |
