Let’s Go WA Running Out of Cash
Let’s Go Washington running out of cash
Let’s Go Washington cash on hand is just $140,116 while Vote Yes I-645 cash on hand is $515,698 according to PDC records. “Let’s Go Washington (sponsored by Brian Heywood)” owes Heywood $6 million in unpaid loans.
After an offensive tweet about Congresswoman Jayapal, mega-millionaire Steve Gordon threw in another $225,000 to defeat a tax on himself on 10/14. Gordon, and his immediate relatives’, total contributions to Let’s Go Washington and the Yes campaign in the last 12 months total more than $1.4 million.
PDC reports show the Yes campaign is paying $15,000 a month, plus travel costs, to former member of Congress Jaime Herrera Beutler through her LLC, Columbia Strategies, for speaking, and putting her name on opeds, in favor of the initiative.
Let’s Go Washington has now paid Aimee Staudt more than $26,000. Staudt is the mother of a teen girl used by the campaign to promote I-638, reports the Seattle Gay News.
GLAAD added Let’s Go Washington to its Accountability List of anti-LGBTQ groups. Let’s Go joins the “Family Research Project” and “Alliance Defending Freedom” for spreading “disinformation and promoting policy to harm LGBTQ people and youth.”
Cities, NAACP, Doctors, and Tribes standing up to Let’s Go Washington
Washington Academy of Family Physicians (WAFP), the largest medical specialty organization in Washington state, representing approximately 3,900 family physicians, residents, and students joined the Washington State Nurses Association and more than 130 doctors and other medical providers urging voters to reject I-001 and I-638.
Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, representing 57 Northwest tribal governments, passed a resolution opposing IL26-638 and IL26-001 at their annual convention. ATNI finds the ballot initiatives “are inconsistent with the Tribes’ cultural, traditional values and commitment to protecting children, strengthening families, and ensuring the dignity and well-being of all young people.”
NAACP Seattle King County President and mother of three students, Sheley Seacrest, explains in a South Seattle Emerald column that Black children will bear the biggest impacts of I-645, I-001, and I-638.
Bothell, Olympia, Vancouver, King County, Issaquah, Mountlake Terrace, Seattle, Shoreline, and Tacoma passed resolutions opposing I-001 and I-638; Lake Forest Park, Kenmore and Seattle Public Schools passed resolutions opposing all, including I-645.
