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Oct 25, 2024

Vote Yes Pay Less

A TLDR thread on our above reproach former legislator Mr. Reuven He’s only doing this for the Children Carlyle

Buckle in:
-A WA state legislator named Reuven Carlyle basically wrote the CCA tax grift law taking money from you when you fill up your car
-after passage of CCA Reuven quit the legislature and started his own VC fund called Earth Finance
- Earth Science apparently consults with small firms and groups on how to get money from public funds like the CCA
-Does he also get money to invest in his VC gambles from the CCA? He says no. Ok….

According to his Bio, Mr. Carlyle is focused on that complex intersection between public funds (taken from commuters and tax payers) and the distribution of those funds in the “private sector”

He is also on the board of Clean and Prosperous Institute, which recently raked in 124 grants for over 40 million dollars from the CCA money

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Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon

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Aug 12, 2024

Something is rotten in the State of Denmark/Washington
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Warning TLDR but actually you should read it…

THE SETUP - Undisclosed Hearings to invalidate the Initiatives

-Friday afternoon I received an urgent phone call
“The WA Supreme Court is deciding a case in 2 hours on the Let’s Go WA initiatives”
-The case has been in motion since Jan 2024
- We have received not one word or one peep from the AG or from the SOS that we should even be aware of this case
-We found out about it because a reporter Jerry Cornfield @dospueblos happened to be looking at the docket of the WA supreme court that morning

SOME DETAILS - TWO CASES to invalidate the Initiatives
-There were in fact two cases before the WA supreme court both filed by people or groups that have given money to the AG’s run for governor (but that is just a completely random unrelated koinkidink)
-Defend WA a PAC funded by Nick Hanauer, SEIU & WEA Union Bosses, and his wealthy elitist friends
-and which is run by Nick’s Civic Ventures organization
-The second case was filed by the Washington Conservation Action Education Fund
-Both cases were against the SOS accusing the SOS of wrongly certifying in Case 1 all 6 of the original Let’s Go Wa initiatives and in Case 2 - wrongly certifying I -2066 preventing a Natural Gas Ban
-The cases together claimed that the SOS had improperly certified all 7 initiatives and that they should all be thrown out
-The nature of the claim seems to have been that the method used by the SOS since the 1970’s was not a proper way to validate voters and that simply verifying signatures was not enough and therefore all 7 initiatives should be invalidated
-The case was dismissed by a Superior Court Judge in April finding the SOS followed the law
-An appeal should have then gone to the appeals court but the Plaintiffs asked for expedited action and it was sent directly to the WA supreme court
-Still no notification to me or Lets Go WA whatsoever by any party that such a momentous and potentially consequential action was being taken agains the initiatives
-The supreme court could have rejected the case out of hand but they agreed to hear claims and findings
-In the documents filed, my name was mentioned directly as was Let’s Go WA
-I was accused of wrong doing and of breaking the law to collect the signatures in the filings by the plaintiffs (how was it appropriate in our system for a complete blackout of information about that accusation to me or Let’s Go WA?)
- We had only two hours to try to figure out what was going on and we had no possibility to get anyone down to the supreme court to intervene or to protect our position within the short time frame.
-And even if we had, the case was heard behind closed doors not open to the public
-The Attorney General’s office was tasked with defending the SOS against the charges
-Which they did
-And fortunately the Case was dismissed with a unanimous decision by all 9 Justices
-However, We were only two hours away from having all of our efforts to give Washingtonians a vote being taken away with not one single notice that these murky efforts were going on!!!

-The whole process leaves me with a number of questions

-Why were we never notified by any party that this stealth lawsuit was working its way through the system?
-The AG knew about this but said nothing,. Why?
-Several of the plaintiffs are donors to the AG’s campaign, should this not have made him even more sensitive to either recuse, or notify us that this was going on?
-I have praised SOS Hobbs for the prompt and professional non partisan way in which he and his staff handled the counting and certifying of the Initiatives. I am concerned however, that to my knowledge, neither he nor anyone from his staff ever reached out to me or anyone at Lets Go Wa …why this huuuuge oversight?

You should be mad - repost this and tell your friends what we are up against!!!!

The Plaintiffs - Defend WA
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Why does Nick Hanauer and the Union Bosses helping fund his efforts want to prevent you from having a chance to vote?

Do you remember the SEIU tactics to
-Set up a snitch line asking for physical descriptions of signature gatherers?
-Then an intimidation tactic to scare off paid signature gatherers
-Followed by a bribe of between $4K and $15K to move to Florida until the end of December when time would run out to collect signatures

-You wont remember but I do when the Union Bosses teamed up with Nick Hanauer to file frivolous complaints with the PDC against Let’s Go WA
-Their message is very clear - don’t you dare challenge the One Party Control or we will make you pay for your audacity
-Why are they trying to threaten me?
-Why are they so afraid of your vote?
-Why does the Founder of Zumiez want to take away your vote?
-Why does a regent at the UW want to prevent you from voting?
-Why is FUSE so actively trying to stop your vote?
-What is Civic Ventures doing behind their vague PDC filings?

I am just getting started with my questions but you should have a bunch as well

Over 1.2 million of you signed at least one initiative that they guys tried to collude with the AG and in the shadows get them disqualified.

Share this thread far and wide. There is corruption in this state beyond what I even imagined.

Here are some of the funders of this dirty shenanigan

Shame shame shame….

History of Case 1 FYI

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Defend Washington, Susan Young, Sharon Chen (2081, 2117, 2109, 2111, 2124)
•January 23, 2024 – Complaint filed in Thurston County under RCW 29A.72.240. Seeks to enjoin the Secretary from certifying the Initiatives to the Legislature
•February 12, 2024 – Secretary Hobb’s Motion to Dismiss
◦Argues Petitioners are wrong on every aspect of the law. Only signatures of valid voters are required, not addresses.
•March 29, 2024 – Defend WA files response. Engaged FieldWorks to review the petition signatures after public records request for copies of petition sheets
•April 12, 2024 – Hearing on Motion to Dismiss. Superior Court grants motion to dismiss.
•April 17, 2024 – Notice of Appeal/Direct Review by Defend Washington to Washington State Supreme Court (WSSC)
•May 2, 2024 – Statement of Grounds for Direct Review by WSSC under RCW 29A.72.240, which permits review by WSSC within five days.
•May 21-July 9, 2024 – Merits Briefing on Challenge
◦Drops challenge to 2081 and 2111 as moot because adopted by legislature
•July 11-July 24, 2024 – Defend WA - Motion for Accelerated Review/Injunctive Relief and subsequent briefing
◦Seeks to enjoin placement of 2109, 2117, and 2124 on ballot
•July 12, 2024 – WSSC issues letter to parties that court will consider motions for expedited review/injunctive relief without oral argument at special En Banc Conference on August 9, 2024. At same time, will decided whether case should be retained for decision or transferred.
•August 9, 2024 – WSSC En Banc Conference – Unanimous decision that superior court properly dismissed. Secretary complied with state law and constitution in verifying signatures on the initiative petitions. Opinion explaining rationale will be forthcoming.

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