from Sound Politics:
Eyman claims that the UW raising tuition is now against the law.
There’s nothing wrong with public colleges and public universities recommending/asking the Legislature for certain tuition increases, but with I-1053, there must be a bill listing the specific tuition increase, there must be an I-960 cost projection and email alerts to the public and the press, there must be hearings in both the house and senate, there must be public testimony, there must be public votes by elected representatives in committee and on the floor, and there must be a governor’s signature or veto. The checks-and-balances of representative democracy are essential when the government wants to take more of the people’s money.
As Senator Roach recently wrote in her reaction to the AG opinion: “The people of this state clearly voted to take back the control of their government. The 64% vote for I-1053 can only reflect a non-partisan demand for greater accountability, not less.”
Click on RR Anderson’s cartoon to read more about Tim Eyman.
ED. The inevitable outcome of this sort of action by Eyman seems to me to be either privatization of the UW or the UW must cease being a “public ivy” and focus on football and turning out degrees. Read more about privitization here and in the UK.
Privatization is misspelled.
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