WA: How does that creep Reichert keep winning (8)? And why the revolt against taxing the rich?

[Union Thug]

Is it stockholm syndrome?

[regnaD kciN]

1. On the latter point...

...it was because the anti-tax campaign convinced the public that it would allow the state legislature to impose the tax on all state residents, not just the rich, after two years. While that wasn't actually in the initiative, since the legislature could modify or repeal any initiative after two years, it wasn't totally a false statement. (The fact that, say, the legislature could take a property-tax-cut initiative -- or an initiative on gay marriage, for that matter -- and "modify" it to institute an income tax was lost on voters.) But, at any rate, the initiative wound up being seen as a "Trojan Horse" bill to impose a state income tax on everyone...and, once that became the perception, it really had no chance.