Tim Eyman as Horses Ass - initiative 831
I was reading a bit about Tim Eyman on Wikipedia and ran across something funny that I had sort of known, but not really.
Initiative 831
During the campaign to collect signatures for I-807, a Seattle computer programmer named David Goldstein launched an initiative to have Tim Eyman declared a “horse’s ass”. Mr. Goldstein declared that he was attempting to parody the initiative process to highlight its shortcomings and problems. After a brief period of support and funding by liberals, the initiative died in court after a challenge by the state Attorney General.
This is absolutely hilarious to me. Just about everyone in Washington State has an opinion about Tim Eyman – one way or the other. But the idea that we’d have a voter initiative to declare him a “horse’s ass” is just priceless. I’m pretty sure I can accurately guess whether that one would have passed, even back in 2003 when perhaps he wasn’t as universally reviled!
In any event, David Goldstein now has a blog at http://www.horsesass.org/ and a radio show on 710 KIRO.
