They are mostly constructions companies and "organizations". It's hilarious

http://www.no-i-695.com/endorsements.htm

-- Patrick Dengler (patrickdengler@yahoo.com), October 09, 1999

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Hello Patrick--

There's a list of donors to the no-695 campaign (hopefully I get the url right) here.

BTW: I updated the list yesterday. As of 10/4/99, the no695 campaign had received donations of about $1.2M.

--Brad

-- Brad (knotwell@my-deja.com), October 09, 1999.

You seem to have missed the point that it includes nearly every major employer, and every organization concerned about preserving good government in Washington. They are all concerned about what this initiative will do to the state, and corporate profitability. This initiative isn't funny. Those opposed take it seriously because it will create real problems, not easily solved.

-- dbvz (dbvz@wa.freei.net), October 09, 1999.

Call me a cynic, db, but I seriously doubt that the major motivation of the groups in question is concern "about what this initiative will do to the state." I do agree with the issue of profitability... since most of the players on the list benefit directly or indirectly, through outright profit or tax-break based on the high revenues this state's tax system produces.

My concern is that, to a group, they are ALL concerned about their welfare as organizations over the welfare of the citizenry of this state. In short, that they oppose this is meaningless both to me, and to those who are going to vote this initiative in. Westin

"Welcome to President Clinton, Mrs. Clinton, and my fellow astronauts." Vice President Al Gore

-- Westin (86se4sp@my-deja.com), October 09, 1999.

I find it ironic that small business as a whole endorse this issue, yet nobody holds their collective breath quite as long as these businesses do when Boeing issues a RIF or a strike looms in it's workforce. Keep pushing, go ahead keep pushing.

-- Ken (klemay@amouse.net), October 09, 1999.

I got a letter from AARP yesterday urging me to vote no. Are you calling AARP big business or beurocrats. Yes they do loby, but they do not draw a dime from taxes.

-- tom nichols (tnichols@hotmail.com), October 10, 1999.

tom--"I got a letter from AARP yesterday urging me to vote no. Are you calling AARP big business or beurocrats. Yes they do loby, but they do not draw a dime from taxes."

This is disingenuous.

They represent a group of people who often receive a significant portion of their income from the government in the form of a social security check. Since AARP's funds presumably come from its members' dues, it's safe to say a good portion of the organization's money comes indirectly from government funds.

In general, the only way it seems plausible that the AARP doesn't "receive a dime in taxes" is if one believes the FICA line in your paycheck isn't a tax and correspondingly, that social security checks are not funded by taxes. In my opinion, this argument doesn't make any sense when employees are not given a *choice* as to whether or not to opt in/out of the social security system.

-- Brad (knotwell@my-deja.com), October 10, 1999.