Today I recieved a letter with two petitions from permanent offense. One is for "son of 695, and the other for the traffic initiative. I am asking patriotic washington voters to get on Tims mailing list and get a petition to sign. Maybe get a couple of friends to sign too. We need 180,000 signatures and every signature counts. The petition have to be sent in before June 30, to make the July seventh deadline. Now is our chance to be counted. This is our chance to repeal all those pesky taxes. Please help out and get involved. Thank you all and I will see you next November at the voting booth and the victory celebration afterwards! Keep up the good work Tim!

Rolex Hoffmann

-- Rolex Hoffmann (rolex@innw.net), February 28, 2000

Answers

Actually, don't we need more than 180,000 signatures? All signatures have to be valid i.e., provided by a registered Washington voter. I think the rule of thumb is that a certain percentage of signatures (10%? 15%?) are not provided by registered voters, so they are invalid.

I received my petitions for both measures, too. My strategy: I'm going to bring the petitions to work, doorbell my neighborhood, and, as I can, approach people who know me. Credibility is important.

Also, those of you who attend old car swap meets, gun shows and antique shows should take your petitions there. I signed a 695 petition at an old car swap meet. You'll be surprised how quickly you can get signatures. But make sure the signatories know they must be registered voters.

Rolex is right. June will be here before we know it, and we have a lot of signatures to obtain. Let's go for two more successes.

-- A.C. Johnson (ajohnson@thefuture.net), February 29, 2000.

We need 180,000 VAILD signatures. To get them we need at least 210,000 signatures because the Sec. of State will through out about 15% of the signatures.

So please do all you can to help get signatures for I-711 and I-722.

-- Monte Benham (rmonteb@aol.com), March 01, 2000.