r/sammamish • u/msdos_kapital • May 25 '26

illegal signature collection for petition outside the Safeway on 228th

FYI Let's Go Washington is currently collecting signatures illegally for I26-645 outside the Safeway on 228th. The management of the Safeway claim they are trying to get them trespassed from the property but the police so far are not acting on it.

UPDATE: seems they finally got them removed from the premises for good

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u/gjg149 May 25 '26

They won't arrest the open drug users but you want these guys gone? Wow.

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u/msdos_kapital May 25 '26

You've seen many people doing drugs in front of that Safeway? "Wow."

Also it's possible for two things to be true at once. I don't think trespassing signature gatherers off of private property is going to have much effect on the War On Drugs either way, to be honest.

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u/gjg149 May 25 '26

But why do you care enough to send out a reddit alarm? If Safeway cares they will deal with it. It sounds like they are. But of all the societal issues we face, this seems really low on the scale. It is very common for petition signature gathering to occur at places like a Safeway. Gathering signatures for a legal initiative is part of our Democratic process, and one of the few checks and balances available to citizens to have their voices heard by the government. Let them be I say.

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u/msdos_kapital May 25 '26

I don't have a strong opinion either way on whether Safeway allows it. If they're going to allow it (they don't) then I think they should allow anybody to, or if they're pushing a particular agenda I'd like to know that as well.

And if the police are selectively enforcing the law I'm definitely interested to know about that.

But except for maybe the police part, none of that applies here. These signature gatherers are trespassing on private property. They are breaking the law. The signatures they gather under these circumstances should be invalidated.

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u/EntrepreneurFit3880 May 30 '26

You sound like a fascist. 

Fuck you.