One of the things that kicked off the development of this website was the 2005 effort by John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur to run an entire statewide initiative campaign over the public airwaves. For two months they made an almost daily effort to attack the gas tax, make appeals for money for the initiative campaign, and provide a mass broadcast of where people could go to get petitions and signatures. Never before has an initiative campaign had the power of two daily corporate media broadcasts to help push their issue. In the end, a Washington State court saw the problem of that situation and forced KVI to report their broadcast time as donations to the initiative campaign. In that case (which is now under review by the State Supreme Court), one of the judge's key findings was that Wilbur and Carlson were more than just commentators, and that they're work made them actual principals of the campaign.

In a quote to the Seattle Times, Carlson defended his actions by saying:

No doubt about it, we crusaded for this and supported the campaign from its infancy," Carlson said. "But crusading for a cause is not the same as administering a campaign.

Anyone who listened during that time would know that their efforts went far beyond support for the issue. Their on-air organizing made them the de-facto leaders of the campaign even if they weren't officially in that position. In a combative July 24th discussion with professional initiative monger Tim Eyman, Carlson made a slip of the tongue that revealed his feelings of personal ownership of the anti-gas-tax campaign (emphasis added):

CARLSON: I've done a couple of initiatives myself as you know, and I know a thing or two about...
EYMAN: How did 912 go? How did 912 go for you John?
CARLSON: We turned in 420,000 signatures and [crosstalk]
EYMAN: How'd the voters react to that?
CARLSON: When it comes to turning signatures in I know how the system works.

"We" turned in the signatures. Not them, not the "campaign", but "We" did, just as he would describe his involvement in any of the crime or reverse-discrimination initiatives he was directly and officially in charge of. See how interesting talk radio can be when hosts don't always give a pass to people on their side of the aisle? You get real debates, real emotion, entertaining radio, and occasionally a revealing slip of the tongue.