Judge Allyson Zipp incinerates Jim Walsh's shameful lawsuit to hide fiscal impact information from Washington voters

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A legal challenge filed last month by two prominent Republican party officials that shamefully sought to evade Washington’s new law requiring fiscal transparency in initiative descriptions received a good and proper torching today in Thurston County Superior Court, with Judge Allyson Zipp ruling from the bench that three right wing initiatives headed for the ballot would all be subject to public investment impact disclosures, in a big win for the public’s right to know and a big defeat for the state’s right wing.

Zipp’s ruling upheld the applicability of a 2022 law sponsored by State Representative Mia Gregerson (D‑33rd District: South King County) and championed by our team at NPI that is wildly popular with Washington voters of all political stripes. That law says that when a statewide initiative is proposed that would increase state taxes or fees — or cut them — voters have to be informed with a sentence on the ballot taking the following form: This measure would (increase / decrease) funding for _____.

The state has long been in the habit of providing information about ballot measures’ fiscal impacts in the voter’s pamphlet. But voters have previously not been alerted to the presence of those analyses on the ballot itself.

That’s now set to change thanks to our fiscal transparency law.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2024/06/judge-allyson-zipp-incinerates-jim-walshs-shameful-lawsuit-to-hide-fiscal-impact-information-from-washington-voters.html