In Our View: Eyman out to make a buck with bunco The Columbian
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A $2.6 million legal judgment last week against Tim Eyman should leave no doubt about the anti-tax maven’s true motivation.
For two decades, Eyman has presented himself as a defender of the public devising, promoting and sometimes passing anti-tax ballot initiatives. Along the way, he also mastered the art of self-promotion, using the initiatives as a grift to line his own pockets.
As Judge James Dixon ruled in Thurston County Superior Court, Eyman long has engaged in “an ongoing conspiracy to conceal political contributions and the personal use of those contributions.”
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Judge blocks sale and closure of National Archives in Seattle, notes ‘public relations disaster’ by feds Author: Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times Updated: February 13 Published February 13
This Jan. 23, 2020, photo shows the National Archives on Sand Point, Wash., that has about a million boxes of generally unique, original source documents and public records. More than two dozen Native American tribes and cultural groups from the Northwest and Alaska are suing the federal government to stop the sale of the National Archives building in Seattle, a plan that would force the relocation of millions of invaluable historical records to California and Missouri. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP)
The National Archives in Seattle. (Feliks Banel, KIRO Radio)
A federal judge announced his intent Friday to issue a preliminary injunction halting the sale and closure of Seattle’s National Archives facility.
Come Monday, Judge John Coughenour says he will formally grant Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s request for a court order, effectively pausing efforts of the Public Buildings Reform Board (PBRB), an obscure federal agency that led a secretive process in 2019 to target the Seattle facility for closure, and that took steps late last year to expedite the sale.
This comes after a months-long effort from Ferguson, Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, and local stakeholders to save the facility from being shut down and keep its priceless Northwest maps, photos, and documents from being moved out of state to California and Missouri.