2026 Washington Initiative 645

I'm Brandi Cruz coming up today on Undivided.

We'll fact check some of those pesky anti-initiative 645 ads.

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I can't even watch my trashy TV shows without being bombarded by political lies.

So I thought I would do what the job of the press is to do and fact check some of these.

The most outrageous... ones that I've seen or the ads against Initiative 645.

And that's where all the money is being spent because you have these public sector unions who they make more money as the government gets bigger.

This initiative is wildly unpopular.

Voters are rejecting Initiative 645, and if I were working on a wildly unpopular initiative, I would probably resort to scare tactics too.

Look, it's just a fact.

What's shocking about this is she's, again, the president of the Washington State Labor Council, and if, if this was just a technicality, why would they not have told their members about it? "Hey, FYI, don't worry about this, but we have to put it in there for X and X reasons." No, they're acting like it's not in there at all.

They're bringing their calculators to the grocery store.

They're not able to fill up a full tank of gas when they ta- when they go to the gas station every week.

Those are the real struggles that working people are experiencing, and by expanding the Working Families Tax Credit and exempting the things that we all buy every month, that is real relief for the working, working folks in our state, and that's why they're voting no on Initiative 645.

Before we go to break-

I'm Carlyn Johnson, the Center Square Washington's state government reporter.

And in today's episode, a great debate last night that took place in the contest over Initiative 645.

That is the initiative that aims to repeal our newly passed income tax.

We'll share some of that with you.

We had Senator Manka Dhingra, who is a Democrat from Redmond, and Dr. Soleil Boyd, executive director of the Children's Alliance.

They were there in support of the millionaires tax.

And then on the other side, you had minority leader for the House, Drew Stokesbary, who represents Auburn, and co- uh, the founder of Let's Go Washington, the ones behind Initiative 645, the repeal of the income tax, uh, Brian Haywood, who was there.

So it was two and two, uh, on the stage with that moderator, uh, from KOMO.