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  • State's high court rules unconstitutional two-thirds-vote requirement

    Kylee Zabel, WNPA Olympa News Bureau|Mar 1, 2013

    Sen. Pam Roach (R-Auburn) urged voters to “look out for [their] pocketbooks” after the state Supreme Court declared a two-thirds-vote to raise taxes unconstitutional in a 6-3 ruling released Feb. 28. The court's determination was made based on a lawsuit filed by the League of Education Voters along with House Democrat members and other stakeholders in July 2011 challenging the constitutionality of Initiative 1035 passed in 2010. Some critics of that decision deemed it appalling that the court chose to side with constitutional tec...