... in 2014 election. They don't like a threat to the system that takes away the KILLING they make on political ads that inundate our system that public financing and its rules would do that would take away their way to profiteer from the corrupt system we have had. Look here at this Seattle Times editorial complaining about it.

http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/big-money-behind-initiative-122-contradicts-its-purpose/

Look at this Oregonian editorial trying to promote prop 90 last election that lost every county in the state to a wiser public that saw through the crap that open primary "reform" would give us here. Even the prop giving undocumented residents drivers's licenses did better when winning Multnomah County in Portland area.

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/10/measure_90_for_congress_editor.html

It is good that Seattle folk did the same thing that Oregonians did and ignored the attempts by the local media to keep corrupt money politics in place and take them down a notch!

Maybe we in Oregon can also join Washington in voting in socialists like Kshama Sawant, who endorsed this prop, a $15 minimum wage, etc. like we recently did with legalizing marijuana too. People just need to make sure that they don't take pot in the car with them when driving back and forth from Portland to Vancouver across the river. That still is illegal even if that amount of pot might be legal on either side of the state line.

A corporation which hires lobbyists can not do certain things. That violates the right to petition govt. There are other problems.

Lived in Seattle off and on for most of my life, plus lived in other parts of the state.
My great aunts took me to see movies in the marvelous theaters in Seattle, when I was as young as 5.
Went to "U of DubaU" all thru the 70's ( now, THERE was a great time).
Family still lives up there.

I was rather envious of all that sunshine you got this summer.

And maybe, just maybe Los Angeles may follow.