After 12 and a half years at @WAGOP it is time for the next chapter. I am truly grateful for all the great people I have worked with across Washington State and the memories and relationships made. Onward!
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Last year I was in Montana when a group of leftwing so-called Republicans led by John Fitzpatrick killed school choice.
We immediately set about teaching them their error.
Last night school choice warrior Trish Schreiber trounced the big taxing, anti-Liberty Fitzpatrick despite massive spending by the Teachers Union and Act Blue affiliated groups for the leftist Republican and his allies.
@AFPMontana and @JesseRamosMT were there since day 1.
Trish is a wonderful person and will serve Montana well.
This is a big win for Big Sky Country!
Pedersen and @GovBobFerguson have awoken a sleeping giant with their apathy for the will of the people. WA residents want their voices heard and are displeased with the State’s spending addiction and lack of fiscal discipline.
@letsgowa is on track to far exceed the 400k required signatures to put this on the ballot and the polling indicates it is deeply unpopular across the full political spectrum.
Find a signing location or request your signature sheets today to keep the momentum and send a clear message.
WA-based company is expanding in Montana instead due to the business climate. $800 million investment and more than 1,000 jobs. https://t.co/OcKBHuY0WG #waleg#mtleg#mtpol
Income Tax Initiative Update!! Everybody hates the Income tax
-As we mentioned earlier we gathered 92,780 signatures in the first week
-But the make up of those signers is interesting.
-We ran a voter ID model on all the signers so far
And the model tells us
49.64% are Dems/Indep
50.24% are Republican
-However, 27,655 of those 92K signers have never signed even one of our other initiatives in any prior year
- The party make of new signers is as follows:
Republican 36.49%
Independent 33.21%
Democrat 30.29%
64% of those who have never signed an initiative but did sign IP26-645 to stop the income tax , so far, are either Democrat or Independent.
This is not a partisan issue
-People understand the tax is coming for them.
-They don’t trust Olympia to spend the money wisely, and
-they seem to be really pissed about the unconstitutional approach taken by Jamie Pedersen and Bob Ferguson
Make your voice heard join us and help us beat the state record of 699K signatures
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Magnanimous of you to 'look forward' to democracy after passing this without a public vote and forcing 400,000 Washingtonians to drag you to the ballot box with IP26-645.
'I look forward to the public having their say' said the guy who did everything possible to prevent exactly that.
Income Tax Initiative Update — 92,780
Our first week of gathering signatures has blown us away
-no one believes olympia — they know this income tax is coming for them
-no one believes that Olympia spends wisely the outrageous amounts of money they already take
-Most believe the legislature is ignoring the constitution and rammed this through knowing it was unconstitutional
Some numbers
-92,780 record number of signatures gathered in the first week
-308,911 - thats how many we need to officially qualify our initiative to stop the income tax
-380,000 - the number recommended to turn in due to duplicates, mistakes, non registered voters etc.
400,000 - our minimum target to be safe
700,000 - the number we need to break the state record
June 28– deadline for you to turn in your sheets (do it sooner!!!)
July 2 - official deadline for us to turn in all of our signatures
IP-2066 numbers for comparison
-65,000 roughly the number of signatures we gathered last year in the first week for stopping the natural gas ban IP-2066
-546,736 — number of signatures we turned in
-533,005 official final tally by the SOS for IP-2066
-48 number of days it took us to gather that many signatures
#2 - 2066 was the 2nd highest number of signatures ever gathered in WA state for an initiative
Still more numbers
-699,098 - the record for the most signatures gathered in WA state for initiative 282 in 1973 — people were pissed off at the raises the legislature gave itself
Join us
Sign today
Order sheets
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Signing locations
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Take a bow, Bob. In 2016 when Republicans controlled the Washington state Senate and I was Chair of the Commerce Committee, WA ranked as one of the best places in the country to do business. Thanks to Gov Bob Ferguson and friends, Washington now ranks almost last. 🇺🇸