Eyman concedes defeat for I-1033

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Tim Eyman, the backer of Initiative 1033, admitted Tuesday night that the effort to cap city, county and state revenue increases appeared headed for defeat, but he told The Associated Press that votes had not given politicians a mandate to raise taxes.

I-1033 was trailing by a large margin. With about 1 million votes counted early Wednesday morning, 55 percent of voters in the state opposed the initiative, which critics said would cripple governments by restricting their revenues at recession-era levels. The measure was trailing by more than 100,000 votes.

"If Olympia views this as, 'Goody, voters are actually in favor of higher taxes,' they are seriously misleading the electorate," Eyman told the AP.

The measure would have limited increases in annual revenue to the rate of inflation plus population growth. Any taxes above and beyond the revenue cap would have been used to lower property taxes the following year. The state's Rainy Day Fund would not have been subject to the cap, and politicians could have collected taxes above the limit by asking voters for approval.

No On I-1033 spokesman Scott Whiteaker said voters in areas that have historically supported Eyman-backed initiatives came out against the measure.

" It goes back to our strategy of educating people about what I-1033 would do to people's communities," Whiteaker said. "They see the damage that this recession has done every day in their communities and they know that this initiative would only make things worse."

The potential effects of I-1033 were not clear, but the governor's Office of Financial Management estimated in an August report that the measure could have cost state, county and city governments more than $8 billion in revenue by 2015.

I-1033 was opposed by several prominent figures and groups, including Gov. Chris Gregoire, state Treasurer James McIntire, the King County Police Chiefs Association, Roman Catholic and Episcopal bishops, the Mainstream Republicans of Washington, Washington State Hospital Association and the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce.

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