WTFotD, 02/10/2010, Evergreen State version

In an interesting follow-up to Daily WTF?--Evergreen State Edition, KOMO reports that

Oops! Dems say they need to re-do tax vote

by CURT WOODWARD Associated Press Writer

Originally printed at http://www.komonews.com/news/84022992.html

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state Legislature's Democratic majority started clearing the way for tax increases Tuesday with its first major vote to brush aside Tim Eyman's tax-limiting Initiative 960.
But in an unusual statement issued Tuesday night, Democratic senators said they had accidentally voted on the wrong version of their own bill, and must redo the vote on the correct bill as soon as possible.
Approved by voters in 2007, I-960 required that any tax increases win approval from two-thirds of the Legislature - a very difficult hurdle to clear. The 26-23 vote Tuesday endorsed suspension of that rule until July 2011, when the next two-year budget cycle begins.
Democrats, however, said they actually meant to suspend the entirety of I-960, including the requirement for public advisory votes on tax increases that are deemed an emergency by lawmakers. It was unclear how quickly the majority would be able to get a replacement bill to the floor.

Which creates an interesting follow-up also to this item from Sound Politics yesterday:

Taxpayers still get screwed, but we at least get to find out who screwed us and by how much - ASK EYMAN ABOUT ITThe 14 co-sponsors of I-1053, the "Save The 2/3's Vote For Tax Increases Initiative" just released this statement this afternoon:
Voters have approved the 2/3's vote requirement for tax increases 3 times, in 1993, 1998, and just recently in 2007. Voters keep approving a law that requires either 2/3's of the politicians or a majority vote of the people for taxes to be increased. They want tax increases to be an absolute last resort.

Today, without hesitation, the Democrats in Olympia voted to violate that voter-approved law.

But the drafters of I-960 recognized that Democrats would try to circumvent this law so we required much more transparency and more information to be provided to voters. Nonetheless, Democrats tried to sidestep those rules by exempting themselves from it with Senate Bill 6843.

Too good to be true...