Originally Posted By: FishPrince
For those of you who think that a simple majority is fair, don't understand how the legislature is dominated by Seattle. You see, there are a lot of liberal hipsters in Seattle who give a lot of money to liberal tax and spend democratic politicians, however these liberal douchenuggets are in safe seats so really don't need to campaign. So they give the money to democrats in mostly republican districts, often outspending the locally raised money to 10 times or more--essentially buying the seats. So the people who live in the Seattle area have their ideas about government disproportionaly over represented in the state legislature while the rest of the state is disproportionaly under represented.

We give the legislature an unlimited line of credit backed by our property, our labor, our lives and our children's, so shouldn't they have a broad consensus on this line of credit? Is 51% really fair, especially when Seattle has gamed the system and has more influence in the state than it rightfully ought to? 2/3rds seems fair to me, bring on the amendment.


Yeah, that representative democracy is a biotch. King County has about 1/2 the population of the State and therefore has about 1/2 of the representation. Funny how that works.

Anyone that understands the Washington State Constitution understands that the 2/3 rule was and is unconstitutional. I would love to see Eyman have to pay for the costs of this lawsuit. He knew it was unconstitutional when he proposed the initiative but he went forward anyway. 2 reasons:

1. He wants to send a "message" to Olympia.
2. He makes his living as a professional Initiative proposer.

I wonder which reason is more important.....
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