If you are serious about supporting this initiative you should be serious about supporting candidates for public office that support it. There is a clear chioce in Snohomish county. Show your support.

http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/99/9/30/11390297.htm

-- Craig Carson (craigcar@crosswinds.net), September 30, 1999

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I would support a candidate who strongly supports this innitiative. Obviously he has the ideas that I have and I would feel that he had the peoples best interest in mind. I feel that this innitiative is for people like myself who cannot afford to pay their expired license tabs the same month their house payment is due.

-- Kelli O'Meara (grapenehi@msn.com), October 13, 1999.

Craig: Most likely, I would support a pro-I-695 candidate.

A candidate who supports I-695 understands the key importance of the power of taxation and I think, therefore, that that candidate will be more sensitive to the need to keep such an important power in check. A candidate who believes thusly will also be more likely to be aware of the size and cost of government and its potential impact on personal freedom. So, a candidate who supports I-695 probably also supports school vouchers, less gun control, more access by the public to public lands, privatization of government services where practical etc. These are all very worthy goals. There are exceptions among politicians (Henry Hyde, conservative Republican, wants stronger gun control laws, and John Dingell, liberal Democrat, doesn't), but in general there is a strong correlation of politicians with what they believe about one issue, and how you can assume they will think on another.

That's my observation as a Washington State voter for 29 years, and a casual political observer.

"The power to tax is the power to destroy." John Marshall, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1801-1835.

-- A.C. Johnson (ajohnson@thefuture.net), October 13, 1999.

I may or may not support the politicians who support I-695. Depends on what else they support. (But I'll sure work hard to defeat the politicians that oppose it!)

-- zowie (zowie@hotmail.com), October 13, 1999.