Yakima Herald
A Moxee man is proposing to lower the drinking age in the state to 19 from 21. In an affidavit for a proposed initiative filed Wednesday, Dustin Reischman asks the Washington secretary of state to assign the initiative a number and submit it to the attorney general for a ballot title. Reischman, a 22-year-old junior at Washington State University, said he began researching the topic last semester as an independent study project. He concluded that many college students drink illegally, which leads to binge drinking and other irresponsible behaviors.
Backers of the petition drive for Initiative 1043 in Washington State have failed to collect enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot. I-1043 would have required employers to use the federal E-verify system to confirm a every potential employee’s immigration status.
Opponents of illegal immigration are paying for their petitions to be sent to newspaper subscribers here and in Skagit County. The Respect for Law committee — an umbrella group for Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, Grassroots of Yakima Valley, and So Tired Of Paying pro-taxpayers group — paid for 6,000 pink petitions to be inserted in Monday’s Yakima Herald-Republic.