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To: LindyBill who wrote (123065)	7/2/2005 5:04:25 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793924

From Sharanksy: Another good/bad example of Judges legislating from the bench...Olympia, WA.... soundpolitics.com Shameless lying weasels A Thurston County Judge ruled against the No New Gas Tax initiative today. [KP Note: seattlepi.nwsource.com] In addition to ordering the I-912 campaign to hold off spending contributions from Internet donors until they provide addresses (not a big deal), he also ordered KVI hosts John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur to report the monetary value of their airtime spent soliciting donations as an in-kind contribution. I guess Free Speech costs more than it used to. Just for that, I'll encourage all of my readers to donate money to the No New Gas Tax campaign. [KP Note: nonewgastax.com ] So sue me. Anybody who wants to calculate the monetary value of this so-called "in-kind contribution" can go have fun with himself. Wait. There's more ... The pro-gas-taxers who are desperately defending their self-serving gas tax with hysterical propaganda [KP Note: soundpolitics.com ] and First-Amendment-trashing lawsuits are not merely shameless weasels [KP Note: keepwashingtonrolling.com (see below for participants in this }\] they are shameless lying weasels. Their website listed several organizations that supposedly opposed I-912, including the Ports of Seattle, Everett and Tacoma, which are all governmental agencies. The always alert Richard Pope observed that such an endorsement by a government agency would be illegal without a board vote taken at a public meeting. Pope sent public records requests to these agencies asking for documentation of such board votes. He forwarded me the Ports' responses -- NONE OF THESE PORT AGENCIES EVER TOOK A POSITION AGAINST I-912. The "Keep Washington Rolling" campaign simply lied. The shameless weasel website has since been updated to remove the names of these Ports. But the google cache shows what the list used to look like -- until alert citizen Richard Pope called them on their illegal campaign tactics. This sort of sleaze from these well-heeled boondoggle promoters only inspires me to go out and collect more signatures this weekend to ensure that the No New Gas Tax initiative makes it on the ballot. UPDATE: oh dear. The always alert Richard Pope tells me I understated the deceit of the shameless lying weasels. See the comments for details. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at 08:56 PM \| Comments (37) \| Email This