Adele Ferfuson - Nov. 12, 2009

Election luncheon pals call fate of two state measures

OUR ELECTION DAY luncheon group, a gathering of public officials, ex-public officials and the usual political junkies from the fringes, had no trouble predicting the defeat of Initiative 1033 and the passage of Referendum 71.

I-1033, according to the ads, all of which were from opponents since Tim Eyman’s crowd spent all their money just getting it to the ballot, portrayed it as potentially destructive to organized government as another hurricane bearing down on New Orleans. School classes would be packed, teachers would be few or fired, p...