But you've got to love the emphatic majority opinion, which upholds an earlier ruling that I-695 violates constitutional provisions limiting legislation to a single subject. Not stopping there, the court majority further criticized Eyman's sloppy drafting work, stating that the initiative had an inaccurate title and improperly failed to list in its entirety every state statute that would be affected by its passage. Quite a smack down for the man from Mukilteo. In a brief concurring opinion, Justice Gerry Alexander scolded his colleagues for piling on. The property tax-limitation provisions of one of Eyman's 2000 offerings, Initiative 722, seem even less likely to survive a court challenge, but it's a good bet that legislators will rush to enact their own property tax cuts if the ballot measure passes next week.
Initiatives are where the action is, folks.
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