{"id":1197,"date":"2019-11-06T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2020-10-23T17:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T00:03:32","slug":"keep-washington-rolling-responds-to-the-november-2019-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/2019\/11\/keep-washington-rolling-responds-to-the-november-2019-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Washington Rolling responds to the November 2019 election results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The broad and diverse coalition that joined forces to oppose Tim Eyman&#8217;s I-976 issued the following statement on the election results at 5 PM on Wednesday, November 6th, 2019. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this point in the count, there is a clear gap between yes and no voters. There are about a half million votes left to count, and half of those are in King County, where voters are rejecting I-976. However, we do not believe that advantage will be enough to close the gap. The indication right now is that I-976 will pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI-976 made a simplistic and deceptive claim: that somehow, car\ntabs could be cut without consequences. At the end of the day, people did not\nunderstand the connection between their car tabs and the transportation projects\nthey support, including improved freeways, transit improvements and city-level\nstreet maintenance projects. It\u2019s extremely disappointing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/our-coalition\/\">Our\ncoalition<\/a> of business, labor and environmental leaders worked extremely\nhard to tell voters the consequences of 976. Republicans and Democrats; urban,\nsuburban and rural leaders; tribes, public safety, civic and disability\nadvocacy groups all stepped up. We are extremely grateful for their advocacy\nfor Washington state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPassage\nof 976 means very difficult decisions for cities across the state and for our\nState Legislature. Literally dozens of cities and agencies are going to have to\ncut and delay projects, or find other ways to raise revenue to take care of critical\nsafety needs. Questions are already being raised about lawsuits and King County\nhas announced their <a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/elected\/executive\/constantine\/news\/release\/2019\/November\/06-976-metro.aspx\">intention\nto challenge the constitutionality of the initiative<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven without the uncertainty and delay that is caused by litigation,\nI-976 undercuts our ability to expand light rail, repair at risk bridges and\noverpasses, pave and improve our local roads and state highways, and to provide\ncritical bus and other transit services to hundreds of thousands of Washington\nresidents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The broad and diverse coalition that joined forces to oppose Tim Eyman&#8217;s I-976 issued the following statement on the election results at 5 PM on Wednesday, November 6th, 2019. \u201cAt this point in the count, there is a clear gap between yes and no voters. There are about a half million votes left to count, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no976.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}