Legislative session will shape Eyman’s next initiative
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The Olympian: Professional initiative promoter Tim Eyman says he’ll be back next year with another ballot measure, and how state lawmakers handle taxes in January will have a lot to do with what he proposes.
One key lawmaker, House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, said Friday that tax increases are not a certainty as lawmakers try to bridge a budget gap of $1.2 billion to $1.7 billion in January. The Hoquiam Democrat also discounted the effect that Eyman’s various initiatives are having on legislative deliberations. “This economy isn’t even going up yet. ... We have to be very, very careful what we do now, and I think we are all very aware of it,” Kessler said.
Even if Democrats do agree that they need tax increases next year, they might put the request on the ballot anyway, Kessler added. She made her comments in a telephone interview about the voters’ rejection of Eyman’s Initiative 1033 on Tuesday.
I-1033 was Eyman’s most far-reaching effort yet to limit government spending. It would have capped yearly increases in general-fund revenue for the state, cities and counties, shifting $5.9 billion into property-tax relief by 2015 at the state level alone.
Eyman said this week that despite his initiative’s double-digit defeat at the polls, he thinks his initiative efforts dampened enthusiasm for taxes in the most recent legislative session, and that I-1033 might dampen zeal for them next year, too – in the Legislature and on city councils and county commissions. “All politics is local. You can talk about statewide numbers all night long (on I-1033). But individual city council members, county council members and legislators are going to look at ‘How did my constituents vote on 1033?’” Eyman said, suggesting they’ll decide that in many districts, there is a big voter bloc “that is going to rip my lungs out if I vote for a tax or fee.”
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