Tim Eyman wants a Thurston County court to also consider I-976

Initiative 976 sponsor and candidate for governor Tim Eyman on Monday filed paperwork asking a court in Thurston County to save the measure to lower car tab fees.

Eyman wants a Thurston County judge to rule whether Initiative 976 is constitutional, even though King County Judge Marshall Ferguson is already considering it.

Last month, Judge Ferguson temporarily blocked the initiative, which would lower car tab fees and blow a big hole in transportation budgets.

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“It’s the most laughable argument you can imagine,” said Andrew Villeneuve of the Northwest Progressive Institute. “King County brings cases every day in King County Superior Court. Sometimes the prosecutor, the judge, the public defender and even the jury, they’re all being paid by the same King County taxpayers, that’s the way the courts work.”

Villeneuve predicts Eyman’s latest filing will be thrown out because the case is unnecessary and the complaint wasn’t properly filed.

https://mynorthwest.com/1655643/tim-eyman-thurston-county-i-976/

Villeneuve wrote a pretty good editorial on why Eyman's full of shit.
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Tim Eyman is apparently unaware that Thurston County’s Intercity Transit is also a plaintiff suing to invalidate Initiative 976

On Friday, Tim Eyman announced his latest legal shenanigan: a lawsuit to be filed in Thurston County Superior Court tomorrow morning which will presumably request that the courts there side with Eyman in trying to move the legal challenge against Eyman’s I‑976 out of King County Superior Court, where it was originally filed and where it remains an action in progress today.

I haven’t yet seen a copy of whatever complaint Eyman is lodging with the court, so I don’t know what relief he and whoever made the mistake of agreeing to represent him are going for, but based on Eyman’s postings to social media, it sounds like a rather lame attempt to secure a change of venue.

Here’s Eyman (the below is from a Facebook screed):

AG [Attorney General] Bob Ferguson purposely sabotaged I‑976 by refusing to file change of venue motion, leaving it stuck with a King County judge in King County which is the plaintiff! I told [Solicitor General Noah Purcell] that day in court: “You blew it. You absolutely blew it.” He replied “You should be thanking us.”

For what? For taking away our democracy? For blocking our $30 tabs? For undermining people’s faith that their vote counts?