[Jeff Higgins]

All I had to do was look at where the money came from that was behind this initiative. The initiative process itself is broken in Washington State, with big money using it as an end-around to our legislative process.

They tried to paint this as an initiative to help the small rural landowner that has had some of his property unfairly taken or restricted. There have been some well publicized cases of this in recent years. That, however, was not the real issue on this initiative. It was a thinly veiled attempt by big developers to skirt land use regulations that they found inconvenient. Yes, we do need those regulations, at least most of them. This initiative actually served to underscore why, for those of us paying attention.