“Let’s Go Washington turns in over 2.6 million signatures for all six landmark initiatives”

“Let’s Go Washington turns in over 2.6 million signatures for all six landmark initiatives,” by Mario Lotmore, Lynnwood Times

“The Let’s Go Washington citizen action group turned in 424,890 signatures on Thursday to provide Washington residents the choice to opt of the state-operated Washington Cares Fund assessment – aka Long-term Care Tax (LTC). ‘The huge lies that are being told that this somehow takes away long-term care health…this is a complete and total falsehood; all this does is give people a choice,’ Brian Heywood said at a press conference in front of the Secretary of State’s Office on Thursday as he delivered the signatures for Initiative 2124. Nearly 63% of Washington voters said the long-term care payroll tax should be repealed with an Advisory Vote in 2019.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Are Washington State voters more or less likely to oppose WA Cares now that they’ve been paying the payroll tax for half a year? More likely I’d guess. This is one “initiative” to watch.