Eyman appears at anti-tax rally in Olympia

Professional activist Tim Eyman spoke to a crowd of several hundred people at an anti-tax rally at Olympia and said he still needs the requisite signatures in a petition drive to put Initiative 1033 on the ballot.

By The Associated Press

OLYMPIA — Professional activist Tim Eyman spoke to a crowd of several hundred people at an anti-tax rally at Olympia and said he still needs the requisite signatures in a petition drive to put Initiative 1033 on the ballot.

Eyman is sponsor of Initiative 1033, which would reduce property taxes by limiting the growth of certain state, county and city revenue to annual inflation and population growth excluding voter-approved revenue increases.

Eyman said as of last Monday, supporters of the initiative had 270,055 signatures about 20,000 short of the 292,000 valid signatures required to put it on the ballot in November.

The deadline for collecting signatures is July 3.

Eyman said other TEA Party rallies this year have been instrumental in collecting signatures for the petition. TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already.

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Whether you like Eyman or not, he does serve as a ballast for the many unanswered questions about taxes. Whether I agree with him all the time is... Posted on June 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM by yankee doodle. Jump to comment

Go Tim!!!!!! I am amazed at the don't use the roads comment. Typical puget sounder liberal.... Raise my taxes at a faster rate then... Posted on June 27, 2009 at 8:21 PM by Seattletechie. Jump to comment

Funny... its mostly the people that don't work and pay taxes that always want to raise them..... Posted on June 27, 2009 at 8:22 PM by Seattletechie. Jump to comment

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