Washington voters firmly rejected initiatives to repeal the state's capital gains tax and its cap-and-trade carbon emissions market.
The initiatives were two of four on the ballot bankrolled by Redmond hedge fund manager Brian Heywood, founder of the political action committee Let's Go Washington. A third that would make Washington's new long-term health care insurance program optional also failed at the ballot box, while voters approved a fourth that would roll back certain regulations on the use of natural gas.