REASONABLE POLICE PURSUIT INITIATIVE. To guarantee that it qualifies for the Nov 2024 ballot, Jim needed to turn in 405K sigs. His team turned in a whopping 410,518. Another victory for the people. Thank you, Jim Walsh!
Thurs, Dec 14, 2023
To: Our thousands of supporters throughout the state
(cc’d to the media, house & senate members, and Governor, and other candidates for office)
From: Tim Eyman
Fighting for Taxpayers for 26 years
Today, Jim Walsh and his team turned in 26 boxes of petitions for the REASONABLE POLICE PURSUIT INITIATIVE.
He needed to hit 325K valid signatures.
Secretary of State recommends 405K.
He and his team turned in a whopping 410,518.
That GUARANTEES that another one of his common sense initiatives and will appear on the all-important Nov 2024 ballot.
At a media event before the turn-in of petitions, a mother of a young girl killed by a car thief passionately spoke about the need to end the Democrats’ failed experiment. From the campaign:
Today, Washington voters took action to help end the crime wave that has swept lives, livelihoods and futures away from families and business owners. 410,518 Washingtonians signed Initiative 2113 to restore local police oversight and begin restoring public safety.
“Police were only able to watch as the man who would strike my daughter in a stolen truck sped away,” said Amber Goldade, whose 12 year old daughter was killed by a man driving a stolen truck. “They could have stopped him long before he got behind the wheel that day if our laws hadn’t handcuffed the police response to his crimes. I’m fighting to stop this happening to more families.”
State lawmakers enacted policy changes to limit the conditions in which police can respond to crimes in progress in 2021. Legislators softened some of the police response restrictions in 2023, but refused to restore the local control over police response that mayors, law enforcement, business owners and voters have been calling for.
Sen. Manka Dhingra, supporter of the original police restrictions, recently claimed, “We don’t have any data indicating that there is rising crime because of this policy.”
Since the year the police restrictions passed, car theft in Seattle has skyrocketed more than 42 percent according to Seattle Police Crime Dashboard data. For the second year in a row, car theft in the city has reached an all-time high, with two more months remaining in the calendar year.
“Communities across the state are suffering impacts of rising crime while lawmakers tell them not to believe their eyes,” said Brian Heywood, founder of Let’s Go Washington. “Local police, mayors and city councils should not be stuck with a one-size-fits-all policy that keeps police from doing their job. Handcuffing police is a failure and regular Washingtonians are paying the price.”
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Jim & his team turned in more than enough signatures TO GUARANTEE THAT THIS COMMON SENSE INITIATIVE WILL BE ON THE ALL-IMPORTANT NOV 2024 BALLOT.
Here are Jim’s remaining initiatives that are EXTREMELY close to qualifying but aren’t quite there yet:
If you already have petitions for Jim’s initiatives, fill ’em up and mail ’em in (the address to send ’em to appears on the back of the petitions). The campaign wants them as soon as possible so they can be copied, scanned, processed, and included in the next turn in.
Click here to find a location to sign them.
To have petitions mailed to you, you can order them by clicking here and filling out this form.
Let’s help Jim in these final weeks of December to get his remaining 3 initiatives over the finish line.
Every time you help me is another chance for you to make sure Bob Ferguson fails to stop us!
Richard Sanders is committed to getting the AG’s ridiculously unconstitutional ruling overturned.
We need to make sure what Bob Ferguson has been doing to me and my family never happens to anyone else ever again.
I urge you to please donate TODAY.
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Onward!
Tim Eyman
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