Permanent Defense

Ballots have arrived. It's time to vote NO on all of the statewide initiatives. Brian Heywood is like Tim Eyman with a gigantic bank account. And know this: Eyman recently declared himself "the unofficial co-sponsor of all of this year's statewide initiatives." Need we say more? Vote NO on I-2066, I-2109, I-2117, and I-2124. Stop greed and defend Washington!

In Washington, we shun the mistake of taking one step forward followed by two steps back. Protect education, climate, and health progress by voting NO on all of this year's statewide initiatives. Learn more at stopgreed.org / StopGreed.

A longtime Republican operative with a history of filing campaign finance complaints against Democratic causes and PACs today finished orchestrating the eleventh hour filing of two people who are identifying themselves identically to the leading Democratic candidate for Governor of Washington State, Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

Republican operative Glen Morgan recruits two people to run for Governor as "Bob Ferguson" with the intent to deceive voters The two pretenders claim to be Democrats, having specified a party preference of "Democratic" in their paperwork, but no true Democrat would ever consent to being part of a disgusting and possibly criminal scheme to confuse and mislead voters.

Democratic State Senator Rebecca Saldaña has decided against continuing with her 2024 candidacy of Commissioner of Public Lands, reducing the number of credible Democratic hopefuls to three and improving the party's chances of avoiding a general election lockout that would effectively guarantee a Republican pickup of the office.

Rebecca Saldaña bows out of 2024 contest for Commissioner of Public Lands Her exit reduces the number of credible Democratic hopefuls to three and improving the party's chances of avoiding a general election lockout that would effectively guarantee a Republican pickup of the office, which oversees Washington State's Department of Natural Resources

You might think that someone who has been trying to change state law for decades and has sponsored dozens of initiatives seeking to change state law would have acquired a basic understanding of it. But you would be mistaken. Not only is Tim Eyman bad at writing law, he's bad at reading it, too.

Tim Eyman wants to contest initiative filing fee increase, but has no grounds for doing so The former prolific promoter of initiatives wants to bring a lawsuit to overturn the filing fee increase, but the law expressly gives the Secretary of State the authority to increase the fee.

Permanent Defense's twenty-second anniversary is this week! Celebrate by signing in PRO on our even year elections bill. It's guaranteed to annoy Tim Eyman, who plans to be there to testify in opposition. https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=senate&mId=31949&aId=159099&caId=24034&tId=3

Tim Eyman dislikes our even year elections bill so much that he signed up to testify against it *twice*. No joke! He'll be super annoyed if you sign in PRO now on the bill to show your support. (You're just putting your name down on the record, not signing up to speak):

https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifier/Add?chamber=senate&mId=31949&aId=159099&caId=24034&tId=3

Tim Eyman's initiative factory is out of business, but he now has successors in Brian Heywood and Jim Walsh.

Let's Go Washington turns in signatures for measure to repeal Climate Commitment Act - NPI's Cascadia Advocate Sponsored by Republican State Party Chair Jim Walsh, I-2117 would repeal Washington's landmark Climate Commitment Act and wreck the state's plans to secure a just and responsible transition to a clean energy future. NPI considers the initiative a grave threat to Washington's well-being and strongly....

Six destructive right wing initiatives could be headed to the 2024 presidential election ballot.

Yes - six.

Learn about the threat and what we're doing to respond:

NPI relaunches StopGreed.org following Let's Go Washington signature turn in event - Permanent Defense On November 21st, a network of right wing groups primarily funded by Republican millionaire Brian Heywood submitted what they said were over 418,000 signatures supporting I-2117, an initiative that seeks to repeal Washington State's landmark Climate Commitment Act, and pledged to return soon to subm...

Though he has yet to break the news to his followers, ex-initiative promoter Tim Eyman has apparently decided to start making a belated effort to comply with a series of rulings issued by Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon in the State of Washington's main campaign finance enforcement case against him.

Tim Eyman is searching for a treasurer to help him belatedly comply with court rulings The ex-initiative promoter has apparently decided to start making a belated effort to comply with a series of rulings issued by Thurston County Superior Court Judge James Dixon in the State of Washington's main campaign finance enforcement case against him.