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Initiative guru Tim Eyman says the dictionary definition was accurate in context when he called Governor Jay Inslee a "lying whore" for his seeming willingness to back newly proposed transportation taxes. (MyNorthwest/File)

Tim Eyman won't apologize for calling Governor Inslee a 'lying whore'

BY Josh Kerns  on February 22, 2013 @ 12:44 pm (Updated: 6:29 am - 2/25/13 )

Initiative advocate Tim Eyman refuses to apologize for calling Governor Jay Inslee a "lying whore" in an email to supporters.

"I believe that Jay Inslee owes us an apology for running on one platform and now implementing a different one, that I think he should simply keep his promise not raise taxes, not allow any taxes to go up," Eyman told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson in a live interview Friday.

The email, sent by Eyman, Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan and Jack Fagan, was sparked by Inslee's seeming willingness to support new taxes to pay for a proposed $10 billion transportation package.

"Candidate Inslee repeatedly promised to veto any tax increase. He said no way to higher transportation taxes in 2013. Inslee said he'd grow jobs to generate more tax revenue. What a lying whore he turned out to be. In recent weeks, he's made it clear he'll sign any tax increase the Legislature unilaterally imposes. Is there any doubt that Inslee would have lost by a landslide if he'd been honest about his tax-hiking plans during the campaign?" said the email.

"He's absolutely said during the campaign we will not be doing any transportation taxes in 2013, and now he he says he's in favor of transportation taxes in 2013," Eyman told Dori.

State Republican Party chairman Kirby Wilbur issued a sharp rebuke late Thursday, saying Eyman should apologize.

"There is no question that's beyond the pale and is uncalled for. No matter what the issue is, it's uncalled for, and I would condemn such a thing," Wilbur told the Seattle Times.

"You may say I disagree, or he lied and point that out. But you don't call him a lying whore," he added. "He should apologize, no question."

Eyman made clear in his interview with Dori he has no intention of apologizing, citing the use of the term whore was proper based on the dictionary definition, which defines whore as "a person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain."

But Eyman might not only be overstepping the bounds of civility, Dori argued he's actually wrong. Inslee spoke with Dori the day before the election and while he vowed not to support most tax increases, he specifically stated he would not oppose transportation taxes.

"It depends what it is, but what I've said is we can't take anything off the table. We're going to have to figure out some way to finance the completion of the 520 bridge, the Columbia River crossing, 167 in Pierce County, that may be a combination of things," Inslee said.

"I'm not denying the fact that he may have said different things to different people but I'm saying that over and over and over again he made it pretty darn clear," Eyman responded. "I think very clearly the people of this state were promised one thing and they're getting something radically different."

But Dori said even if Eyman is right, calling Inslee a whore crosses all lines of civil discourse.

"Now everybody is focusing not on Inslee and the massive tax increases, everybody once again is focusing once again on Tim Eyman calling the governor a whore and your message is getting lost in the rhetoric."

"It's absolutely unacceptable behavior for people to lie their way into office," Eyman insisted. "I'm simply trying to highlight the press is giving him a pass not repeatedly bringing it up and highlighting the fact that he's repeatedly doing things that are different from what he said in the campaign."

A spokesman for Inslee said his office would not comment on Eyman.

Josh Kerns, MyNorthwest.com Reporter
Josh Kerns is co-host of KIRO Radio's Seattle Sounds (Saturday nights 7-8) and a digital content producer for MyNorthwest.com.
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  • Zoeller wrote...
    Sounds like a perfect -
    February 22, 2013 3:05 pm
    Analogy to me. :)
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  • southi5 wrote...
    And Shouldn't
    February 22, 2013 3:37 pm
    Apologize. Only correction I would make is including every other politician that does the exact same thing, would be a long list though.
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  • bofus wrote...
    Ha
    February 22, 2013 3:42 pm
    Tim Eyman a proven thief and liar. He's an expert on being a w*ore.
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Right you are...
    February 22, 2013 3:52 pm
    ...Eyman has admitted as such. The question should be, what do you call the people that support him?
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @Clearwater3...
    February 23, 2013 6:11 am
    "...Eyman has admitted as such. The question should be, what do you call the people that support him?" ---- Stupid?
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    John Stuart Mill summed it up perfectly:
    February 23, 2013 7:11 am
    "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Yo - Clearwate3 Moron
    February 23, 2013 10:43 am
    Here's the epitome of the LYING DEMOCRATS. www.youtube.com/watch?v...autoplay=1
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Yo - maplefish
    February 23, 2013 12:37 pm
    I'm assuming that the link you intended to link to was going to mean something. Try again...
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Yo - Clearwater3
    February 23, 2013 9:12 pm
    Watch, listen and understand....www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLmru6no4U
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Too bad about those pesky elections...
    February 23, 2013 11:19 pm
    ...I know they're always such a bother when your guy loses.
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  • irony wrote...
    well that shows how stupid you are.
    February 24, 2013 10:45 am
    when a wh.ore pretends to be something else, the truth usually finds them out
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  • FormerMarineSgt wrote...
    @bofus
    February 23, 2013 6:11 am
    You got it Bofus. Eyeman calling Inslee 'a lying ' is absolutely the pot calling the kettle black. Eyeman has lied to the people of this state so many times that I'm surprised that he can still differentiate between lies and the truth.
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  • Robert_C wrote...
    Well since....
    February 22, 2013 3:52 pm
    The geniuses on the Supreme Court ruled it is perfectly legal for politicians to lie, is this really a lie? Remember we put them in office to lookout after us ha-ha. I'm just say'n.
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  • wsualumn wrote...
    Tim Eyeman
    February 22, 2013 4:42 pm
    Is an expert about being a "lying **ore." He told everybody a few years back that all of the work he did was without charge. They later found out Timmy was paying himself from the contribution fund.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    God forbid
    February 23, 2013 10:16 am
    Eyman would have the audacity to try to hold our inept, out of control spending, lying, incompetent DEMOCRAT IDIIOTS accountable for their power hungry, never ending quest to extract as much money as possible from We The People. When will you morons hold people like Inslee, and especially Obama accountable? The only ideas they ever have is more taxes....it is disgraceful and it is insanity. ENOUGH TAXES ALREADY!!!
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  • wsualumn wrote...
    Maple
    February 23, 2013 12:42 pm
    I am going to ask you this, how well does it work when we had The GOP doing tax cut and spend? Yes, spending is out of control, by BOTH parties. Look at how things were when we had the tax rates under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter. We didn't nearly have the debt we started when reagan went with massive tax cuts. Yes, he raised taxes 11 times to help off set what could have been even worse debt. The Ryan Budget called for even more tax cuts with no tax increases. The spending cuts were targeted to hit the poor and middle class. Look at what the top taxes earners pay now and what they did years ago. It's pretty much to where it was under Clinton. Were people complaining that much about it then? Top economists have said for some time that you have to cut spending and raise taxes.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    WSU
    February 23, 2013 9:30 pm
    Think about this: o “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage”. Our Govenrment is completely out of control. Its as though the Democrats show up for work each day and their only agenda is to try to find new ways to extract more and more money form "We the People". Just think about how much you pay in taxes now and how every single day our governmenment just wants more. Taxes, Fee's additional regulations! MORE AND MORE and there is NO END or it's never enough??? And there is NEVER any accountability for the exessive waste. I built and sold 3 very sucessful businesses in 20 years and I had to do it without any waste. I had no choice in how I managed my cash flow and expenditures. I'm sure you have to be the same way with your household funds? Doesnt it bother you at all???I am sick of it. Jay Inslee is the epitome of the Big Government Democrat LYING SHIITHEAD WWHORRE!!!
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  • maplefish wrote...
    WSU
    February 23, 2013 9:45 pm
    BTW I am not against paying taxes. I totally and completely understand the importance of government and the roll that it plays in a civilized society. But think about it, Obama just rattfukkked a middle calss family making $65K a year out of an additional $1300 a year. Now ad an additional $500- $1000 a year in gas tax and God only knows how many other new fee's regulations thrown into that family's budget ( with ZERO cost of living raises) -unless they work for the government-and you continue to destroy the Middle class family. GEEESSH man, do the friggne MATH! And, with every new fee and regulation the government passes on "We the People" well, that results in less freedom and liberty as citizens....Bigger Government is BAD!!!
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  • wsualumn wrote...
    MAPLE
    February 24, 2013 5:02 am
    I don't disagree with you about having to live within our means. Yes, there is waste. Yes, we have to make changes. However, we have grown the size of government to a size than nobody imagined from 200 years ago. We had voluntary militias to defend our homeland. Now we have the largest military in the world that feels the need to police the world. That obviously comes at a huge cost. We also have roads and bridges that traveled by cars, which requires money to operate and maintain. Those weren't a factor 200 years ago. The list goes on and on and these things need to be paid for. how do we do it? Road tolls? Tax by the mile? Increase gas taxes? I so often see the tax chart that show what we had to pat taxes for 100 years ago and what it is today. Our society changed to keep up with modern times and it costs money. It costs us even more if we don't. "We the people" from 200 years ago face so many new challenges from "We the people" today. It comes at a cost and we have to figure out ways to pay for them. Many people have also voted for many of these programs that require payment, which is done through taxes.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    WSU
    February 24, 2013 7:56 am
    Good Point and Thanks for the history lesson :) I'm just saying that Obama, Inslee and all of the Democrats are always talking about saving the Middle Class. Well, these constant and aggressive NONE STOP taxes fall squarely on the backs of the middle class. You do understand that has a huge effect on their spending power, which in turn continues to slow the economy - which results in more unemployemnt??? It’s Basic economics. The hypocrisy of the Democratic party is staggering! It's a joke. And then look at the WASTE that this State just pisses into the wind with ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY! $28 Million over budget for the new dump. The new tunnel – already $5 million over budget. Look at 520? Sound Transit $1 BILLION in Wasted Tax dollars over 10 years? The list goes on and on and this tsate has been run by Democrats for over 30 years. Get the picture? There is ZERO ACCOUNTABLITY and they just want more and more and more...I'm sick of it!
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  • notmygov1 wrote...
    Well the fact is
    February 22, 2013 4:49 pm
    We have a state of alot of people whom work for the state and always vote D Jay Inslee will be worse than queen Christine was. These people vote them in to keep their jobs they do not care about taxes they just want to keep the job. Jay Insless is a piece of SShhiit he will raise our taxes by billions hang on to your Asss you idiots voted for him.
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  • Mike in Pioneer Square wrote...
    Eyman
    February 22, 2013 6:49 pm
    What a jerk.
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    So Eyman is in trouble for telling the truth.
    February 22, 2013 11:47 pm
    Every Democrat promises no tax increases to get elected then once elected raises taxes ..you pathetic ignorant sheep.
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  • Truhawk wrote...
    You are wrong, Dori!
    February 23, 2013 5:03 am
    This doesn't cause people to lose sight of the true focus of transportation tax increases...just the opposite, it attracts more attention to the situation. And I heard Inslee say just what Tim claims, and when Inslee said it, he didn't mention anything about transportation tax increase support...and he should have! Just another case of a politician misleading the public to get elected, and unfortunately, that is not anything new. Inslee should have mentioned it any time the subject of taxes came up. Get real Dori!
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  • Cash wrote...
    Who cares if they are both liars?
    February 23, 2013 8:02 am
    I do because Tim is just a dude and Jay is in full control of stealing from us... Jay is the one you should be concerned with and he should be held accountable to what he ran on period. NO NEW TAXES... Guys like the former sgt just don't get it and blame everyone else but who the real problem is. Look who is stupid now.
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