Vote likely means more budget cuts
The exact effect of Tuesday's initiative votes still is being sorted out at the state Capitol, but one thing is known: Budget writers in Olympia have deeper spending cuts to make.
Voters overwhelmingly repealed a collection of new taxes on pop, candy and gum, erasing $272.4 million in revenue that the state would have received through mid-2013.
Initiative 1107, which the national soda industry backed with more than $16 million, was passing by a wide margin.