"Clear out a warm spot in your heart for this one: It's Initiative 517, the Create-A-Permanent-Revenue-Stream-for-Initiative-Clown-Tim Eyman Act."

— Seattle Times columnist Ron Judd

"Really? We need an initiative to make it easier to put initiatives on the ballot? Do we really want and/or need there to be more 'citizens'' initiatives, many of them written [for], biased [towards], and bankrolled by the monied interests that those initiatives will benefit? And don't forget that Eyman's for-profit business model is initiative writing. Of course, he wants to make it easier."

— Wenatchee World commenter Seslar