Two prominent Seattle business owners have provided seed money for initiative promoter Tim Eyman’s campaign to roll back Seattle’s new, phased-in $15-an-hour minimum wage ordinance, and prohibit other cities from enacting wage legislation.

The Eyman-sponsored Fair and Unified Minimum Wage PAC has received $50,000 from the Fremont Dock Company, run by Suzie Burke, and another $50,000 from Garneau Properties of Faye Garneau.

Garneau underwrote the initiative that switched Seattle to a district-based election system.

Eyman has suffered crushing defeats in recent years, notably defeat of a 2011 measure that would have blocked Sound Transit from using the I-90 bridge for light rail, and obstructed tolls to pay for new highways.

The sugar daddy for Initiative 1125 was Bellevue developer Kemper Freeman, Jr., who donated $1.09 million to get Eyman’s initiative onto the ballot.

Eyman has been shopping a $2.2 million campaign to reverse the success of minimum wage campaigns in Seattle and SeaTac, and to head off the fair wage movement gaining ground in other cities.

“Our initiative wins statewide with just 25 percent of the vote in Seattle: But in the same poll, 44 percent of Seattle voters support a unified minimum wage,” Eyman told potential supporters.

In a telephone conversation last month, Garneau told SeattlePI.com that she was inclined to support Eyman’s campaign in the future, but had no intent to give at that time.

Garneau and Burke have given to Republican campaigns and causes. Both have donated to the Republican National Committee. Burke has given to the state Republican Party, U.S. Reps. Doc Hastings and Dave Reichert, and ex-U.S. Senate candidate Mike(!) McGavick.

Eyman outlined a blitzkrieg campaign, starting Sept. 1 and ending Oct. 31, aimed at getting his measure onto the ballot and giving supporters of the $15-an-hour minimum wage “little time to react.”

Filings with the state Public Disclosure Commission indicate he has spent money with Pulse Opinion Research, an offshoot of the conservative Rasmussen polling operation. Eyman has also consulted with a Bellevue law firm known for close ties to the Building Industry Association of Washington.

Eyman has yet to report hiring any “signature mercenaries” to put his measure on the ballot.

Eyman suffered his worst-ever defeat last November with Initiative 517, a measure that would have extended the time period to collect initiative signatures, barred people from discouraging potential signers, and extended the right of petition collectors to operate on private property.

I-517 alienated longtime business supporters of Eyman initiatives, who had to spend money to defeat it and prevent signature mercenaries from clogging the doorsteps of their shopping centers and restaurants.

Eyman has been using such premises as the Metropolitan Grill to hold kiss-and-make-up sessions with businesses. Although posing as a populist, he has long been dependent on such backers as the Washington Restaurant Association, the Beer Institute, the Association of Washington Business and the state’s oil refiners.

Andrew Villeneuve, head of the Eyman-watching Northwest Progressive Institute, seemed almost to sympathize with Eyman’s two new sugar mommies.

“Over the course of the last 15 years, we’ve seen many wealthy individuals and firms trust Eyman with their money — and get burned,” Villeneuve said.

“Tim Eyman has run sloppy campaigns, taken campaign funds for his own personal use while denying he was doing it, and steered money from one campaign into another without his donors’ permission or knowledge.”

Eyman is the subject of a long-running investigation by the Public Disclosure Commission.