The first lesson we should learn from past failed Initiatives is the need to build a much larger Family Rights Coalition BEFORE gathering signatures to place our Family Rights Initiatives on the ballot. In this article, we will first review some of the past problems of failing to build a large coalition before submitting Initiatives. We will then outline the process for building our Family Rights coalition and the tasks that must be accomplished.
Problem 1: Failing to gather enough signatures
Even a brief review of past Initiatives confirms that many important Initiatives failed to gather the needed signatures to even be put on the ballot. Here we will use the recent example of Referendum 101. Referendums should be easier to put on the ballot than an Initiative because they only require half the number of signatures. Referendum 101 was intended to repeal one of the worst bills ever written, namely 2023 Senate Bill 5599 – which I call the Child Kidnapping Bill.
Jennifer Heine-Withee of the Family Policy Institute of Washington stated: “This bill allows the state to hide children from their parents at a time when the child is in crisis and needs the parent more than ever. Then, the state can consent to allow the child to get whatever gender transition service they want. There isn’t even room for due process – if a child says their parent won’t be supportive of the change, that’s all it takes, and that child can be put in a ‘host home’ without disclosing their location to the parents.”
Senate Bill 5599 gives explicit rights to the state to allow kids – who are likely going through mental health problems - to undergo major medical procedures, including taking toxic Trans drugs, without the consent of the parents or even contacting the parents – regardless of the age of the child.
Senate Bill 5599 was approved on April 23, 2023. Dawn Land filed Referendum 101 on April 24, 2023 and the ballot title was issued on May 2, 2023. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5599 on May 9, 2023. The bill was scheduled to take effect on July 23, 2023 which meant that opponents of this bill only had until Saturday July 22, 2023 to collect valid signatures of at least 162,258 registered voters. To get this many valid signatures, they really needed to gather about 200,000 signatures in two and a half months.
“We’re hoping everybody can understand it really is a bad law,” said organizer Dawn Land of Puyallup. “We are putting it on the ballot so we the people can veto it.” Dawn set up a website at this link: https://www.reject5599.com/
Dawn also filed a committee with the PDC called Reject 5599 which you can see at this link: https://www.pdc.wa.gov/political-disclosure-reporting-data/browse-search-data/committees/co-2023-32444
Concerned citizens donated a total of $30,000, half of which was spent on printing 60,000 petitions with the rest spent on advertising. In the end, they failed to gather enough signatures.
The horrible law went into effect on July 23, 2023 and is still in effect today. One of our goals in drafting our Family Rights Initiative is to repeal this horrible law. But the lesson we should learn from this disaster is that we need to first build a very large coalition and only after it is built should we start gathering signatures.
Problem #2: Gathering enough signatures only to see our efforts defeated in the General Election
A sad example of this problem was Referendum 90 which gathered over 260,000 signatures to be put on the 2020 General Election ballot only to lose by a margin of 58% to 42%. Referendum 90 sought to repeal Senate Bill 5395 – which I call the Sex Ed for Kinders bill. This is the law currently being used to brainwash 6 year olds into changing their names and joining the Trans Drug Cult without their parents knowledge or consent.
Those favoring repealing Sex Ed for Kinders set up a Facebook page which still exists at this link:
https://www.facebook.com/ParentsforSafeSchools/
Their leader and referendum sponsor, Mindie Wirth, also set up a simple website called Parentsforsafeschools.com. This website no longer exists. But you can see it by going to archive.org.
They also set up a committee with the PDC showing that they raised $462,000. Unfortunately, another group called Safe and Healthy Youth Washington raised $1.7 million – outspending them more than three to one. The groups who outspent them included Planned Parenthood ($500,000), ACLU ($220,000) and the WEA – teachers union ($150,000).
The lying legacy media also spent millions of dollars in misleading articles that fooled the voters. For example, on October 20, 2020, KUOW published an article which falsely claimed that: “In kindergarten through third grade, that’s social emotional learning, which is managing your feelings, how to make friends. There's no sexuality taught in those younger grades.”
In fact, it left it up to Reykdal to determine what was age appropriate. Reykdal turned the curriculum into a Trans Drug Cult Propaganda Fest.
One of our goals in drafting our Family Rights Initiatives is to amend the Sex Ed for Kinders law to at least protect children in Elementary schools from being subjected to Trans Drug Cult Propaganda.
The important lessons we should learn from this disaster is not only do we need to have a large enough coalition to gather the signatures, we also need to set up our own Pro-family Community News websites to get the truth out to voters. We also need to anticipate that we will be outspent by at least three to one – another reason to build our own statewide network of community news websites before placing our Family Rights Initiatives on the ballot.
How to build a large enough group to pass our Family Rights Initiatives
Our plan not only includes building a statewide network of Pro-family community news websites to better inform Independent voters, but also to hold Family Rights educational events with churches and community groups throughout Washington state during the next three years in order to build a large enough coalition of parents and grandparents in each county to gather the needed 400,000 signatures without needing any paid signature gatherers. We believe that protecting our families and protecting our kids from the Trans Drug Cult is the issue of our time. We will not stop organizing until we have achieved this goal.
While it is clear that the vast majority of the members and leaders of the Washington State Republican Party support Family Rights, it is also clear that the current Washington State Republican Party is not large enough to defeat the Crazy Cult in Olympia at the moment. Hopefully, we will be able to greatly expand the Republican Party in our state.
Changing the Focus from Identity Politics to Issue Based Advocacy
We also need to recognize that many parents and grandparents who might be willing to join and support our cause do not like or trust either political party. Their motivation in working with us is protecting and providing a better future for their kids. This point is crucial because while there are one million Democrats and 800,000 Republicans in our state, there are at least 2 million Independent voters who do not and likely will never identify with either major political party.
Ideally, a few hundred thousand Pro-Family Rights supporters will join the Republican Party – allowing us to grow the Republican Party by perhaps 50%. But the key to winning elections is attracting the votes of parents and grandparents who are unwilling to join any political party. Working independent from and parallel to the Republican Party and focused entirely on the issue of Family Rights will allow these parents and grandparents to become involved while at the same time retaining their political independence.
In addition, there are at least 800,000 Republican Party supporters in Washington state. All we need is half of them to support our cause and sign petitions in order to put it on the ballot.
There are at least one million voters who attend church here in Washington state. While there is a strong overlap between attending church and supporting the Republican Party, all we need is half of the voters who attend church to sign petitions in order to get the 400,000 signatures needed to put the Family Rights Initiative on the ballot.
Finally, there are many people who attend church but who never vote. Rather than complaining about this, we need to give these people a reason to vote. Putting Family Rights on the ballot is going to give them a better reason to vote.
Polls already show that the vast majority of voters support Parents Rights.
The voters also support Girls Rights to fair sports and private spaces:
We will also have the help of at least 6 important Pro-family Supreme Court rulings in 2025
We have already had four pro-family US Supreme Court rulings:
In 2023, in Students v Harvard, the Supreme Court ruled against DEI efforts as being against Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In August 2024, in Tennessee v Cardona, the Supreme Court ruled against allowing boys in girls bathrooms, locker rooms and sports leagues.
On June 5, 2025, in Catholic Charities v Wisconsin, the US Supreme Court voted 9 to zero that all religious activity is protected by First Amendment. This means that the state cannot regulate which causes churches choose to support. This ruling will help give pastors more courage to publicly oppose the Trans Drug Cult and publicly support protecting Family Rights.
On June 18, 2025, in US v Skrmetti ,the Supreme Court, in the case of. hammered another nail in the coffin of Chris Reykdal, Bob Ferguson, and their Trans Drug Cult, by agreeing with the state of Tennessee that there are good reasons for prohibiting minors from being given toxic Trans drugs.
It is likely that in the next few weeks, in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor (protecting the right of parents to opt their kids out of Trans school curriculum), the Supreme Court will rule in favor of protecting Parents Rights.
This Fall, in in the case of Chiles v Salazar, it is likely that the Supreme Court will overturn a Trans Cult case called Tingley versus Ferguson – a case that forces gender confused kids in our state to take toxic Trans drugs instead of getting the counseling they need.
We will have the help of the US Department of Justice investigation of Chris Reykdal in 2026
We have filed three complaints against Reykdal – all of which will be investigated by the US Department of Justice in the next year. On February 28, 2025, we filed a 99 page Title IX complaint against Reykdal for allowing boys to enter girls bathrooms and locker rooms and take over girls sports.
In March, we filed a 60 page complaint against Reykdal for violating the Title VI rights of students by subjecting them to discrimination based on their skin color.
In April, we filed a 60 page complaint against Reykdal for violating the FERPA rights of parents to be told the honest and complete facts about what is happening to their children while they are in school.
All of these complaints against Reykdal will be investigated in the coming year. It is certain Reykdal will be found guilty not only of violating several federal laws – but also lying to the voters here in Washington state for the past 5 years. Reykdal will also have to answer for violating the federal civil rights of his own employees. On June 3, 2025, Darby Kaikkonen, a former high ranking OSPI Director and the current Tumwater School Board President, filed a complaint against King Reykdal in federal court to “redress violations of (her) constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as state law claims arising under Washington law.”
Our goal is to combine all of these factors to help us win the war being waged against our families by the Trans Drug Cult. As long as we have Patience, Persistence and a Positive Attitude, we will eventually restore Family Rights here in Washington state. Thanks for reading this article and for supporting Family Rights. We look forward to your questions and comments.
Regards,
David Spring M. Ed.
Washington Family Rights Coalition