Eyman makes a fool out of himself, again
When last we checked in on the egregious Tim Eyman, he’d announced a new ballot initiative to overturn the gay civil rights act, and gleefully started gathering signatures.
Yesterday he called reporters to Olympia, hinting that he was going to hand in the signatures. He was lying. Instead, he and his assistants laughed at enraged reporters while Eyman was dressed up in a silly-ass Darth Vader costume. “There’s no such thing as bad press,” said Eyman.
Today the news came in: he doesn’t have the signatures. Even with the usual conservative preachers trying to get out their flocks, he still didn’t have the signatures.
Sometimes, justice wins a battle.
Hey, Eyman! When you finally decide you want a real job, let us know. I hear they’re hiring down at Taco Bell.
ETA: Eyman claims he came up with 105,103 signatures, a number that got repeated in the AP story and the Times and P-I. This is Eyman talking, not anyone official, so that number is almost certainly pulled directly from his ass. Church leaders said Eyman simply stopped returning their calls awhile ago, when it became apparent that he wasn’t going to have enough signatures for the initiative.
