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Map of Proposition 1 results by precinct. The initial election returns had Sound Transit 3 passing by a large margin in King County, narrowly in Snohomish County, and failing in Pierce County. [99] Supporters, including King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle mayor Ed Murray, celebrated at a campaign party in Seattle's Belltown ...
The Seattle Times editorial board opposed the initiative. They wrote, "If the safety of Seattle hotel employees is a problem, the laws that protect them should be strengthened. Seattle ballot Initiative 124 is a sloppy, possibly illegal first draft that should be rejected by voters." [8]
In August 2006 a Thurston County judge blocked a tongue-in-cheek initiative (I-831) [56] proposed by Seattle-area computer programmer and blogger David Goldstein that would have allowed voters to criticize – or support – Tim Eyman by declaring, "The citizens of the state of Washington do hereby proclaim that Tim Eyman is a horse's ass."
Initiative 502 results by county, with number of votes shown by size, yes in orange and no in blue. Washington Initiative 502 ( I-502 ) "on marijuana reform " was an initiative to the Washington State Legislature , which appeared on the November 2012 general ballot, passing by a margin of approximately 56 to 44 percent.
Initiative 200 was a Washington state initiative filed by Scott Smith and Tim Eyman. [1] It sought to prohibit racial and gender preferences by state and local government. [2] It was on the Washington ballot in November 1998 and passed with 58.22% of the vote. [3] It added to Washington's law (but not its constitution) the following language:
Initiative No. 2109 (I-2109) was a ballot initiative in the U.S. State of Washington that appeared on the ballot on November 5, 2024. The initiative was brought to the state legislature by Let's Go Washington, a Redmond-based political action committee founded by businessman and hedge-fund manager Brian Heywood.
The Seattle Times Company is a privately owned publisher of daily and weekly newspapers in the U.S. state of Washington. Founded in Seattle , Washington in 1896, the company is in its fourth generation of control by the Blethen family as of 2022.
The Seattle Times originated as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. [2] [3] Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000.