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Picture = 1000 words: From yesterday:  "When a tax is so fundamentally unfair, so fundamentally dishonest, so fundamentally out of kilter with what an average person thinks is fair, you have to adjust the system in order to accommodate a fair taxation system."...

If given the chance, here's what voters will do to Inslee's Income Tax Scheme: Yes, that's me 32 years ago tossing a guy twice my size at a WSU fraternity event.  It's a perfect metaphor for what we can accomplish together next year -- and that's to toss Inslee's...

I have been released from Facebook jail - but I gotta start over - please send “Tim Eyman” a friend request if you do Facebook My testimony last night against bonuses for politicians — and your emails — spurs massive confrontation with rigged and corrupt commission ...

Does Jay Inslee deserve a 20% salary bonus? What about Bob Ferguson? The 9 Seattle Supreme Court judges? Olympia politicians who've done absolutely nothing to lower car tab taxes? Do any of these clowns deserve more than their current six-figure salaries? If there was...

Stay Down Luke   Click here to watch it:  https://tinyurl.com/y8jv8qpm   "Just stay down, Luke, he's just gonna knock you down again.  It's not your fault, he's just too big.  Stay down Luke." "You're gonna have to kill me." If not for the love and support of all of...

As talk radio impresario Todd Herman so aptly put it last night: "Eyman's initiatives have saved taxpayers $40 billion -- and that's $40 billion that wasn't available for politicians like Bob Ferguson to pay out to their friends."  For 20 years, we have relentlessly...

My dearest friends: For 6 long years, I’ve been slammed with the most intense, soul-crushing government litigation against a private individual in state history.  While the AG has had unlimited resources to assign teams of taxpayer-financed lawyers to bury me and my...

I'm ADHD, so Wednesday wasn't exhausting, it was thrilling  What a day!!  On Wed, I got up at 5am, left Mukilteo at 6 am, drove to Olympia to do press conference at 10 am after dropping off petitions with 286,003 signatures for $30 Tabs Initiative, drove 6 hours to...

It was a truly historic day in Olympia. Pictures = 1000 words:   We started this historic signature drive in mid-April. In early July, we went to the Secretary of State's office in Olympia and announced we had reached 202,172 signatures in record time (less than...

We called the Sec of State and have an appointment at 10 am, Wed, Nov 14 at their 520 Union Bldg offices in Olympia We're turning in our petitions for our $30 Tabs Initiative tomorrow. I also asked them to assign some State Patrol officers to attend, saying it was "a...

Since the beginning, it's been our goal to finish early. As soon as you can, mail in all your partially filled or fully filled petitions for our $30 Tabs Initiative.  Send it what you got.  Now.  Immediately.  Don't delay.   There's two options: * Mail your petitions...

Last night, the voters repudiated initiatives that created new taxes and embraced initiatives that protected us from higher taxes -- Hallelujah! The media and the establishment slavishly obsess over the candidate races. But if you wanna know what voters are thinking,...

Hilton Garden Inn, 1800 NW Gilman Blvd, Issaquah, 7-11pm   One year from tomorrow, on November 5, 2019, we will be getting together on election night to celebrate the voters overwhelming approval of Initiative 976, bringing back our $30 tabs (30tabs.com), and to...

Eyman launches new referendum: 'Give Them Nothing'  Referendum co-sponsors Jack Fagan, left, Spokane Councilman Mike Fagan, center, and Tim Eyman pre-file “Give Them Nothing” in the Secretary of State’s Office on Oct. 24 in Olympia. By Roger Harnack, Publisher,...

Do politicians deserve a 20% bonus?  Does Inslee?  Does Ferguson?  Does the State Supreme Court?   The overwhelming response to our new campaign to veto politicians' 20% bonuses shows that the answer to the above questions is an emphatic:  "NO!" Without a 20% bonus,...

BONUSES FOR POLITICIANS? They want a 20% bonus. They deserve a 20% cut! The people say: GIVE THEM NOTHING! Politicians are asking for a 20% bonus from a commission of “regular citizens” (one of them is actually the husband of a state supreme court justice!). It’s...

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:  Let's be clear, we're gonna have a very short timeframe to collect signatures for our new ballot measure.  So tomorrow's kick-off at the Secretary of State's office and our email update at 11 am is the starting gun and that means everyone, AND I...

Yes, we are focused on getting the final 75,000 signatures for our $30 Tabs Initiative by the Dec 31 deadline -- BUT COME ON, I'M A DAD, SO CUT ME SOME SLACK ON THIS Got this last night at Dad's Day at her school:    As many of you know, my life has been dramatically...

We are working like crazy to qualify our $30 Tabs Initiative.  But it's important to stay vigilant about other initiatives.      Last Tuesday, I felt really bad that my legal challenge to the AG's biased description for Initiative 1000 was dismissed by the judge.  I...

"If you can't get a job, can't get into college, or can't get a government contract, you can thank Tim Eyman," says sponsor of I-1000, the new initiative that brings back government-sponsored discrimination It was quite a day.  Yesterday morning, I was contacted by a...

On my Facebook page yesterday, I asked supporters to pray for me regarding today's hearing. We must remember that God answers all prayers -- but His answer is often no. Here's what happened: 5 weeks ago, I filed a persuasive legal challenge to the Attorney General's...

I hope I've watched enough Perry Mason, L.A. Law, Boston Legal (Denny Crane!) and Law & Order to be ready for tomorrow.   I have a business degree from Washington State University with a minor in Economics.  I'm not an attorney.  Nonetheless, over the past 20...

I love this man:    Since mid-April, Bob Henkel from Tacoma has been busting his butt getting signatures for the $30 Tabs Initiative I-976.  He's now collected and turned in 6500+ and he's still going strong.  Those pictures show him with his 320+ petition sheets. He...

All day at the Yakima GOP fair booth on Saturday -- here was the highlight for me Jeremie Dufault is a GOP candidate for the state house -- as you can see in this picture, he's holding a stack of newspaper mailers: Here's the back page of that flier that he mailed out...

Tomorrow is gonna be fun.  Join me at the Central Washington State Fair from 12-6 pm; where I'll be working alongside GOP volunteers at the Republican fair booth collecting signatures for the $30 Tabs Initiative.  Our initiative gets rid of state and local taxes and...

Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson has politicized the ballot title process for initiatives unlike all his predecessors   For decades, professionals in the AG's office have written official ballot titles for initiatives that were neutral and unbiased regardless of...

We crushed it gettin' sigs at the Red Gate outside the fair:  My teammates were fantastic at our booth inside the fair The fair was filled with Eyman fans Even the children support $30 Tabs: Great people at the Pierce County GOP booth -- I'm so grateful for their...

It started on Friday with Kirby Wilbur on 570 KVI interviewing me when I was at the Puyallup Fair.  Kirby TORE INTO Sound Transit for all their many lies and encouraged his listeners to join me at the Fair and sign our petitions. Then on Monday morning, KTTH's Jason...

Nothing is more moving to me than getting these kinds of letters from supporters:    We killed it at the Puyallup Fair this weekend: I'm putting $30 Tabs stickers on everyone I can -- here's my 2 favorites from Sunday: So grateful to the Pierce County GOP for getting...

It’s was an absolute love fest at the Puyallup Fair Sunday for our $30 Tabs Initiative.         Everyone wants to bring back our $30 car tabs. Awesome day outside the Puyallup Fair on Sunday. We need 320K+ signatures. In the first 3 months, we hit...

Getting publicly heckled by 2 disheveled college kids Great story to share. To set the scene: I had just finished up speaking on Monday night to the 46th District GOP in Seattle. It was a great crowd. Tons of people showed up and we spoke for nearly 2 hours about our...

Huge victory for the initiative process On the last day of this year's legislative session, the Constitution was violated by the Legislature. An initiative to the legislature -- I-940 -- had qualified and the Constitution gave the Legislature 3 options: * Adopt the...

Big events like the fairs are super helpful Longtime super supporters Denis and Joan Gorner made sure that the GOP booth at the Kitsap Fair has $30 tabs petitions. So grateful for their help. Check out these pictures from this weekend:   At the Monroe Fair on...

First day at Monroe Fair -- GOP fills 12 petitions sheets!!   Fairs are fun I live in Mukilteo so trekking over to the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe is pretty darn easy. So I'll be there as often as I can. But no matter what, make sure to swing by the Snohomish...

This past weekend in Bellevue, the county chairs and state committee members from all over the state met in Bellevue for the State GOP's latest quarterly meeting It was a unanimous vote. That's such a great feeling to have such across-the-board support for bringing...

Since I'm a 24/7/365 political activist (with ADHD), I'm constantly looking for ways to make a difference I'm like a shark, always swimming, constantly moving. I don't just sit around and wait for people to ask for help. I am overtly pro-active in all areas of the...

It was obvious the petitions for the anti-gun-rights initiative were screwed up -- but many didn't think the court would do anything about it. Justifiably, we are all very skeptical about judges and the courts in the state of Washington (cynical might be a better...

If this was an Eyman initiative, everyone would insist I follow the law. Because opponents know that voters support our initiatives (like $30 tabs), they've often filed pre-election legal challenges to prevent voters from voting on them. The courts have consistently...

The final reports for initiative campaigns were posted on Friday. So now we know how much each initiative spent to qualify for the ballot: * The carbon tax initiative I-1631 spent $2.1 million to qualify. * The anti-gun-rights initiative I-1634 spent $4.1 million. *...

State and local governments are ripping us off Voters have twice passed initiatives capping vehicle registration charges -- car tabs -- at $30 per year.  And for about 15 years, we succeeded at getting them lower.  Our initiatives over the past 20 years have saved...

State Treasurer Duane Davidson said "I urge the Legislature to not start a terrible precedent of diverting Rainy Day funding ... I have a duty to speak out if we can avoid a self-inflicted wound.  If the Legislature shifts its rules to avoid filling the...

The Democrats must've thought nobody would legally challenge their unprecedented raid on the constitutionally-protected Rainy Day Fund.  That's the only way to explain why they would so blatantly violate the Constitution.   If they get away with this, then the Rainy...

  Have you ever noticed how kids are constantly testing their parents on what they can get away with?  They're looking for how much we'll tolerate.  And whenever our kids do something wrong and get away with it, it inspires even greater irresponsibility. State and...

State and local governments have an all-consuming, insatiable appetite for higher taxes. No matter how much they take from us, they always demand more. They act like we have bottomless wallets. Call it tax inertia -- governments are gonna keep taking more and more...

With Democrats in charge of the House and Senate during this year's 2018 legislative session, the Constitution was routinely violated. They assumed they'd get away with it. Why? Because citizens rarely file lawsuits against the Legislature's actions (because they're...

Make sure to read Monday's update -- it's great news. As for today's topic, it's about the popularity of our $30 Tabs Initiative. Here's the way it works: the less popular your initiative, the more you have to spent to get it on the ballot. The more popular it is, the...

Our $30 Tabs Initiative is really popular. Taxpayers are justifiably furious that their vehicle tab bills are skyrocketing. It's because governments are knowingly and purposely inflating the value of our vehicles so they can artificially inflate the taxes they impose...

As you know, we are focused like a laser beam on the signature drive for our $30 Tabs Initiative. But during this year's legislative session, the Democrats did so many unconstitutional things that I felt compelled to respond. I initiated two lawsuits: * Eyman v Wyman...

On Friday in Olympia, we announced the big news: We did our best to make it as splashy and newsworthy as possible: We waved our arms and screamed at the top of our lungs about our progress and how much more needs to be done: Co-sponsor Mike Fagan did an absolutely job...

Last year at this time, we had zero signatures for our $30 Tabs Initiative.     This year, by starting 3 months earlier, we've given ourselves a huge head start. Earlier today in Olympia at the Secretary of State's office, we announced that we've reached...