Dear Friend,

We're down to the wire.  The next 36 hours will determine whether or not we Approve R-67 and ensure that insurance companies treat Washington consumers fairly -- and just a handful of votes may well decide the outcome either way.

So if you haven't already, please remember to mark your ballot to Approve R-67, postmark your ballot by Tuesday and mail it in, or drop your ballot off at your County Auditor's Office (click here to locate them). 

And if you live in King, Pierce, or Kittitas County and aren't voting by mail, please remember to go to the polls on Tuesday!

If you need any more reminders of what we're up against here, you don't have to do much more than check out Friday's Seattle Times editorial cartoon by Eric Devericks...

... then read this blurb from Joel Connelly in today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

Wretched excess: The insurance industry poured $11.5 million into the campaign against Referendum 67, a measure that would allow ratepayers to seek damages when insurers deny legitimate claims.

The anti-R-67 campaign wound up appropriately low. A final broadside quoted a Spokane lawyer who represents insurance companies, and a one-time Olympia columnist best known for arguing that African-Americans are better off because their ancestors were brought to the New World as slaves.

... and then read Sunday's column by Danny Westneat in the Seattle Times, setting the record straight about the insurance industry's distortions about the Ethel Adams case:

Insurers Keep Us Spinning
by Danny Westneat

I have been twirled by a lot of spin, but rarely does it fling me all the way into a parallel universe.

It happened last week. Courtesy of an industry whose creativity in shaping an alternate reality never ceases to amaze. I'm talking about the insurance industry. And a woman I know named Ethel Adams.

You may recall her. She was driving a few years back, minding her own business, when a car slammed into her, crippling her for life.

Her insurer, Farmers, refused to pay any damages related to the crazed man, Michael Testa, who caused the wreck. It wasn't an accident, they said, because Testa was trying to ram his girlfriend's car. ...

... What hacks me off most, though, is that the news release repeated the central canard of Ethel's case. It said: "Ethel Adams was intentionally injured by a road rage motorist."

No, insurance people, she wasn't. She was an innocent bystander, remember? Whom you tried to shaft with semantics. Until you got caught.

I have no idea if Referendum 67 is a sound law. I doubt many voters do, either. We ought to leave these decisions to the people hired to make them — the Legislature.

But I have learned this: The insurers still don't think they did anything wrong to Ethel Adams. It was all some glitch. Nothing to do with them.

And you know what that means: They'd do it again if they could.

(Link to full article)

We know that tens of thousands of voters are still making up their minds about R-67.  And your personal recommendation to Approve R-67 can have a big impact on your friends and family.  So please forward this email to every Washington voter you know -- right now, today -- and help us Approve R-67 on Tuesday!

Sincerely,

Allison Branham
Approve 67

P.S.  We're really down to the closing hours, and every last vote will make a huge difference.  So please remember to cast your own vote to Approve R-67 -- and then forward this email to every Washington voter you know.  Thanks so much for your help!

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